Crossword for Sat, 4/Feb/2023

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Across
1: Monks' hooded garments

3: Warship warrant officer

7: Perch in a coop

9: Like a situation that could have been prevented

11: Yield to pressure

12: Sound of a fan

13: Cooks up

14: Group of scenes

15: Bulldozers, e.g.

18: First choices

21: Cone producer

22: Bentley features

24: Shad delicacy

25: Wedding page word

26: Bad dream

27: FCC flouter Howard

28: ''Man of the Year'' for one?

29: Lab jobs
Down
1: One with an ace up his sleeve?

2: Party for sheep shearers?

3: Bunkum

4: Stamp out

5: Walk laterally

6: Seasonal songs

8: Earthly

10: One who keeps dropping things

16: Shellfish selection

17: Bilko and Pepper

19: Bring into servitude

20: Ceremonial procession

22: French writer of ''The Balcony''

23: Stop pushing so hard




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