Puzzle No. 3339

Puzzle No. 3339

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And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

ACROSS

 1 Meditative word in a foreign language, sort of: “beer” (4,4)

 5 Um… like… um… rubber? (6)

10 Rice in Iraq’s original flap: wrong, all around (5)

11 In olden times, a health club that won’t let you give up? (9)

12 Clint and Emily are linked by working as partners (2,6)

13 Like Joyce, I take a chance, replacing potassium with hydrogen (5)

15 Collapse pie mold after cooking (7)

18 Spectacles featuring Wurlitzer in front and organs on either side (7)

19 Offer too much love (smooch, for example), with instinctual drive… (7)

21 …collectively held back by hopeless amnesia (2,5)

23 Loud herds blossom (5)

24 Obnoxious frat act—I object (8)

28 Outside of beauty shop, Mitt Romney’s son trails behind (4,5)

29 Flexibly, I bend a fortune-cookie addendum? (2,3)

30 Cryptic setter to once again check anagram for “street” (6)

31 Rejecting craft of Mexican snacks? Toss orange in wastebasket (5,3)

DOWN

 1 Skip one Native American (4)

 2 Fruit is Chaney’s self-introduction to Tarzan? (5)

 3 Bamboozle New York city ruminant (7)

 4 Antelope in cyberspace? (5)

 6 Call for note paper (24 sheets at least) (7)

 7 Shot amid some functions with satisfactory zest (9)

 8 No turns to yes in farm where van Gogh painted a great musician (3,7)

 9 Rush with reckless speed, circumventing cap (8)

14 Pre-moisten nuts for apostle (5,5)

16 Official is in trouble before the plane leaves the ground (9)

17 Try to stop over a disturbance (8)

20 Pigs, swallowing 90 or 12… (7)

22 …cakes, make a mistake in front of sow (7)

25 One thousand dollars in a row for someone fierce (5)

26 Curve made with copper pen (5)

27 God of boundless joy and noise (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3338

ACROSS 1 HAN + DING + LOVE 7 & 28 anag. 9 MARI(L)YN (I ran my anag.) 10 anag. 11 anag. 12 hidden 13 COLLE (anag.) + GESTATION 18 OVERT + H(ECO)UNTER 22 INP(U)T (pint anag.) 24 TOL(E + RATE)D 26 TH[is] + UNDER 27 AL(LEND)E 29 ST + ETHOS + COPE

DOWN 1 rev. hidden 2 anag. 3 [m]ILLER 4 GIN’S + ENG 5 O(PI)ATES 6 anag. 7 init. letters 8 LO + A THING 14 [p]LATITUDES 15 hidden 16 I + NEXT + ENSO (anag.) 17 pun 19 [n]EUTER PE[t] 20 anag. 21 AD + HERE 23 PLU-ot/TO 25 2 defs.

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