Crossword for Fri, 9/Jun/2023

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Across
1: Desert beast with three lids on each eye

4: Informal

9: Wal-Mart, to many labor advocates

10: Wrinkled fruit

11: Giving lip to

12: Thelma or Louise, e.g.

14: Trounces

16: Posh

17: Steamed Mexican dish

20: 'Home, James'

21: Prepare for knighthood

22: Male witch

24: More or less

25: Branch organization

27: Aroused again

28: Exorcist's enemy
Down
1: Jim-dandy

2: Place to get pinned

3: Ill-mannered types

4: Igneous rock mineral

5: Achieve artfully

6: Connecting symbol

7: Accept two contradictory ideas at the same time

8: Engraved stamp

11: It has feathers and may be airborne

13: Thing that conceals

15: Fool

18: Poker variety in which the best hand is called a wheel

19: Machine-gunned from above

23: Rubbernecked

24: Tune

26: Hand holder?




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