Crossword for Mon, 9/Jan/2023

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Across
1: Bonds solidly

5: Kept to oneself?

8: Hazarding a guess: cabbie who gets under your skin?

9: Chinese restaurant implement

11: Kind of pipe

14: Sound heard in hay fever season

15: Enduring

17: Sang in Tyrol, e.g.

18: Saying

20: Customs duties

23: Defamatory phrase

24: Give evidence

26: Go down

27: Packed items that might take a number?

30: Thinks back on

31: Hits the road
Down
1: Skin at the base of a fingernail

2: Kitchen appliance

3: Silent sayso

4: Dubbed one

5: Entourage member, sometimes

6: Flabbergast

7: Ruinous failures

10: Work with the hands

12: Pen pal?

13: Campanologist's pants?

16: Vain

18: Strips

19: Square shooting

21: Ballet step

22: Guile

25: Less friendly

28: 'I've ___ it up to here!'

29: Tree fluid




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