Crossword for Tue, 21/Mar/2023

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Across
1: Pest exterminators [up to 112 pounds]

6: Goal on the green

8: Pinot Noir or Merlot

9: Alaska resource

10: Surrounding

12: Timber unit

13: Acid rain component

14: Yuletide worker

16: Banquet figure

18: Thing that conceals

19: Eve's start

21: Device

23: Passports, e.g. (abbr.)

25: Doctor's signboard

26: Unit of oil production, briefly

27: Cartridge contents

28: Wharf pest

29: Oater ambusher
Down
1: Metal cap on a stick

2: Mountain air?

3: Daydreaming

4: Bulb in a bed

5: Shoulder board (Var.)

6: Inferior rhymer of verses

7: Pitcher's cuff

11: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

15: Crime scene clue, perhaps

17: More than half of adulthood?

18: Less populated

20: CBer's oft-repeated word

22: Nudging joint

24: Remain (with)




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