Puzzle No. 3319

Puzzle No. 3319

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ACROSS

 1 Acts recklessly with jazz fans (4)

 3 Disoriented flier, half-lost, circling O’Hare at first and LaGuardia (8)

 9 Scold help after rude burp (7)

10 In bed, doctor can’t make a connection (7)

12 Letters from solution in every square (4)

13 Chesterton, grabbing us, swore terribly—which is what you might need to complete a puzzle (9)

15 “Father is Son”—painful final days of Christ (7)

16 Ancient god has become popular as a grape (6)

19 Fate, a thousand times confounded (6)

21 It consists of a bar, etc.! (7)

24 Make too much of voters’ tea parties (9)

26 Monthly payment advanced, after left-to-right conversion (4)

28 Giant bird dismembered Cain (7)

29 Chapter 50, including novelist Tyler’s fluid passage (7)

30 Praise from computer company captivating a nation (8)

31 High-class award given to 11 Across entries (4)

DOWN

 1 Beat 21 (4)

 2 Bill heartlessly chomps 1 across (7)

 4 Poor, practically unaffiliated man (8)

 5 Scam for Roger Federer? (6)

 6 Pieces of timber, including Northern pines (5)

 7 Speakers in Oregon disrupted roast (7)

 8 Row of urns for ointment (8)

11 Behold! A doll in a bag (4,4)

14 Verbalized a reason for the bike to be at the repair shop? (5,3)

17 Wild boar existing amid the trees (8)

18 Shocking scenes involving fascists: at the core, they can be physical (8)

20 Damage carpets and ranges (7)

22 Encountered queen in India, not surprisingly (3,4)

23 Dead guitarist upset tabloid spies (6)

25 Joke with my family, rising in the morning (5)

27 Kill, for example, to conceal trace of larceny (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3318

1 2 defs. 9 CAR + GOP + ANTS 10 SLAT + HER 11 DIAGR (anag.) + A.M. 12 I’M ME + D(I)ATE 13 I DEAL 14 anag. 16 D(ROOP)IER (poor rev., ride anag.) 18 WARP + LANE 19 HOB(N)O + B 22 L + EARN 23 E(YEP + I.E. + C)ES (see rev.) 25 anag. 26 VA + GRANT 27 FRAU + DU + LENT 28 rev.

DOWNJUST ICE 2 C + HARM 4 A + IRB (anag.) + A + G  5 GA(D + GET)RY 6 PLACI(DO + DO +MI) NG + O 7 anag. 8 SI(MILA)R (mail anag.) 9 “row, dial in dread” 15 PERCA (anag.) + PITA 17 INTE(RNA)L (ran anag.) 18 WAL (rev.) + D OR F 20 BUSS + TOP 21 HE(AVE)N 24  CHA(I)R

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