Crossword for Fri, 25/Dec/2020

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Across
1: Waiter's deduction (Part 2)

6: File folder projection

8: Place (a bet)

9: Coming forth

11: It may be passed on the Hill

12: Stinking

14: New hire

15: Guilty party

16: 1988 World Series champs

18: Lured

19: Examine by touching

20: Behave

23: Ask for

24: Padrone's workplace

25: High level of respectability

26: 'What have we here?'

28: Small one

29: Too bad

Down
1: Out of commission

2: Undercover worker

3: Professionals who might get your back up?

4: Scrutinized

5: Bonehead

6: It's a drag on a gown

7: Like some memories

10: Like many stump speeches

12: Part of a Boy Scout's uniform

13: Spot in the water

16: Starting out

17: Take off the board

21: Long green

22: Vocal effect

26: Eyeball

27: Galena or cinnabar, e.g.





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