Crossword for Fri, 9/Feb/2024

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2: Professionals who might get your back up?

9: Traffic problem

10: Diminution

11: Hazarding a guess: manager of a political candidate?

12: Sprite

14: Sheriff's band

15: Office door adornment

16: Current regulators

20: Slow critter

22: Scheduled

24: Sorted alphabetically (like this puzzle's clues)

26: Health club staple

27: Tightly-twisted thread

28: Change
Down
1: Ill humored

2: Some reds

3: Spot in the water

4: Address

5: Zola's literary style

6: Make big bucks

7: Really big

8: Go down

13: Most puzzle constructors

17: Celeb status

18: Artist's studio

19: Bomber attribute

21: Rap sheet names

23: Straight up

25: 50s ICBM

26: Petty who fronts The Heartbreakers




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