Crossword for Sun, 9/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Hasty escape

3: Cash containers

6: Land maps

9: Summer hummer

11: Preserves preserver

12: Reunion convenience

13: Tire out

14: Future flower

16: Fiercely loyal

17: Decline

19: Move on a sinuous course

21: Appointed ruler

22: Astringent

24: Vied for office

25: Inferior rhymer

26: Twilit

27: Natural ability

28: Outs partners
Down
1: Novice

2: Palindromic title

4: Punished painfully

5: Cushions

6: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

7: More than recessed

8: Extend

10: The story of my life?

15: Rubbery polymers

17: Most-___-nation status

18: Blank first page

19: Lash cosmetic

20: Takes off the market, in a way

23: Ankle bones




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