Crossword for Thu, 14/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Baal bondsman?

4: Suffering from 'I' strain?

9: Movie houses

10: Ruffle

11: Tall and thin

12: Revel noisily

14: Secret partnership

16: Passed out

18: Online VIP

19: Trattoria offering

20: PRNDL pick

23: 'Messiah' genre

25: Word that may follow eye or grand

27: Monkshood

28: Bacon and others

29: With guile

Down
1: Prepares for vacation

2: Oater events

3: Egotistical conversationalist

4: Lamb and Bacon, e.g.

5: BPOE member?

6: Word at the start of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'

7: Talk smack to

8: Musical set at the Kit Kat Club

13: Hardworking

15: Ancestors

17: Period before the Middle Ages

18: Repentant miser

21: Goes off course

22: Outer limits

24: Nail file material

26: Batman foe Poison ___





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