Puzzle No. 3376

Puzzle No. 3376

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ACROSS

 1 Clip each part of a bag (barely open)—attire for a guide (9)

 6 A fool in a hurry (4)

10 Examining plunder that holds ruler agog at first (7,2)

11 Willow is more pink after losing its top (5)

12 Native American is bashful with Frank, we hear (8)

13 Pass the crackers, please (6)

15 Child’s spoken instruction to the janitor? (6)

17 Stores freestyle poem and retro tune (7)

19 Dostoevsky conceals one of the three-letter 32 that appear in the diagram—there are nine others (3)

20 First lady protects corrupt clan in Chinatown, for instance (7)

22 Liverpool letter about a piece of software put in a microwave…(6)

25 …is bigoted, sending the leader to the back (6)

26 Pair of gullible fellows getting into cunning dispute (8)

29 Playwright is taken by local beer (5)

30 After a terrible time of life, consumer gets a sports car, perhaps (3-6)

31 Whirlpool taking the top off negligee (4)

32 Excruciatingly bad story involving the origin of pipe organs (4,5)

DOWN

 1 Choose, with or without a primary (6)

 2 Ocelots wandering nigh (5,2)

 3 Extract liquid from frozen water under Juneau’s outskirts (5)

 4 Small vehicles with a measure of power, having departed east and south (10)

 5 Biblical book’s truths, avoiding false start (4)

 7 Carrier beginning to seem more trendy (7)

 8 Average names? Unacceptable for cheese (8)

 9 Idle drink ensnares one sucker (8)

14 Wow! Zoo herd tamed in old age (10)

16 Careless repartee reveals where a Christmas present might be found? (4,4)

18 Banish broken reel upon opening (8)

21 Stole furniture in which a baby and its parents sleep? (7)

23 Someone who builds before military training program escalates (7)

24 Reverses receptacles for Mormon cremains? (1-5)

27 Exhaust United States and European Union source of petroleum (3,2)

28 Try Sunday paper (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3375

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ACROSS 1 LACE + RATED 6 CUP ID 9 ABE + TS 10 anag. 11 HO(ME + MAD)E 12 Q + ATARI 14 3 defs. 15 CREE(PINES)S 18 anag. 19 2 defs. 22 anag. (&lit.) 24 [b]AC A DEMIA (rev.) 26 A + FRI(KAN)ER 27 BU(IL)T 28 anag. 29 PA(SSEN)GER (Ness rev.)


DOWN 1 LO + ACHES 2 anag. 3 RE-SUM + E 4 TH(UNDER)OU + S 5 rev. hidden 6 CAN + NAB + IS 7 hidden 8 DAH + LIAS (rev.) 13 “pea score” 16 anag. 17 COW +  [p]ORKER 18 OR + CHARD 20 TR + ACTOR 21 anag. 23 PER + ON (rev.) 25 rev.

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