Crossword for Thu, 3/Sep/2020

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Across
1: Utilitarian

5: Total before deductions

8: Quill bearer

10: Half a score

11: Health club staple

12: ''Super ___'' (Rick James hit)

13: Popular palindrome

14: Concerns for ecologists

17: Dryness when speaking

18: Navigator's need

20: Lovers' lane event

22: Hardly fine literature

23: Balaam's beast

25: 2000 film garnering Best Picture and Best Actor honors

26: Au pair

27: Hospital sign

Down
1: Glass tube used in chemistry

2: Covenant

3: Real shocker

4: Pulitzer Prize category since 1970

5: Place for a feeling

6: Part of a pound

7: Flatters, in a way

9: Building addition

12: About to appear

15: Eccentric

16: Fool

17: '___ Kane'

19: Depict

21: Deeply desire, with 'for'

22: Cribbage marker

24: Devious





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