Crossword for Fri, 21/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Lice and the like

5: Monks' hooded garments

8: Former boxer?

10: Well-muscled

11: Type of pen

12: Drew Barrymore to Steven Spielberg

14: Grate expectations?

16: Most moronic

17: It can put you on a different flight

18: Fixed, as a shoe

19: Construction site creation

22: Used to be

24: Immeasurable depth

25: School room

26: Two-stage missile

27: Comparison standard

Down
1: Strips

2: Oscillated

3: ___ over (assisted through difficulty)

4: Dubbed one

6: Wrongdoer's bane

7: Really soaked

9: Hazarding a guess: critic who studies Hitchcock?

10: Kahunas

13: Color of a cloudless sky

14: Helper

15: Shoots at from a plane

16: Slow critter

20: Deduce

21: Bill of Microsoft

23: Elegant

25: Blubber





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