Crossword for Fri, 21/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Easily angered

6: 'Sledgehammer' singer Gabriel

9: Sly plots

10: Kitchen aid

11: Mottled inlay material

15: Actor Harrison

17: Contrition may lead to it

18: Minor, probably

19: Sis or bro

20: Stage of advancement

22: Broke in a canine?

25: Partner of fold and mutilate

27: Amber, for one

28: Motley crew

Down
1: '__ a Wonderful Life'

2: Hate with a passion

3: Good judgment

4: __-relief

5: Goal

6: Faux follower

7: Mystery novels, e.g.

8: Too bad

11: Fashionable canine?

12: Get in good condition

13: Abbreviate

14: Like God

16: Take back due to nonpayment

21: More anomalous

23: Queen of the coop

24: Lower, as lights

25: Japanese honorific

26: Poet's preposition





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