Crossword for Thu, 6/Dec/2018

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Across
1: Cold War weapon

6: Like the Marines

9: Like secondhand smoke

10: Some golf school students

11: Hard to bear

13: Antelope with twisted horns

14: Reason for celebration

16: Rambunctious child

18: Iron anniversary

20: Botches

21: Job for the Blues Brothers

22: Perch

23: ''Great blue'' bird

24: Marx/Engels creation

26: Tears into

28: Stretched to the max

30: Rope maker's fiber

31: Night cover?
Down
1: Vortex

2: Ultimate, degreewise

3: '___ from the Crypt'

4: Changing in form

5: Imprecise ordinal

6: Academician

7: Excessively distressed

8: Delivered a drug

12: Concerns for ecologists

15: Chief point

17: Like leaves in 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'

19: Left hastily

23: Even bet

25: Dowdy one

27: Kind of sister or story

29: Palindromist's preposition




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