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Today’s mini is a symmetric word square — every row reads the same down its column.
Across
- 1 Body’s pumping organ
- 6 Glowing fragment after a fire
- 7 Mistreatment, in a serious sense
- 8 Sticky pine secretion used in violin bows
- 9 TikTok hashtag that catches on
Down
- 1 Centre of a city, idiomatically
- 2 Camping aftermath’s red glow
- 3 Misuse of trust or power
- 4 Amber’s original source
- 5 What a viral video becomes
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