Puzzle No. 3269

Puzzle No. 3269

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ACROSS
 1 Meetings can be bits of noise, repeatedly in one case (8)
 6 Tacos shredded in layers (5)
10 A groundbreaking alert (2,5)
11 Showing no emotion, school official takes handheld device back (7)
12 Rumpelstiltskin gleefully traps princess’s father (4)
13 Evangelist’s friend embracing Unitarian leader (4)
14 Snow crystal is source of frigid body of water (5)
15 Expressive person, back at the front, becomes aloof (6)
17 Spooner’s point: flowers kiss on the tundra (3,5)
19 Drop a third of two vowels (3)
20 Chose to surround establishment’s entrance and exit! (8)
21 Commercial interrupting program’s darkness (6)
24 Dull reefer (5)
26 Ruminant returns for grass (4)
27 What you’d hear in Edinburgh: “It’s cold around the second of June” (4)
29 Superlatively doubtful counterfeit fifties (7)
30 Go back and forth with criminal hustle: smuggling loot, ultimately (7)
31 Emerge from an egg or narrow door (5)
32 Treason’s unacceptable for government figures, 13 of whom appear in the completed grid (8)
DOWN
 2 Comfortable and efficient, and therefore with no amplification (9)
 3 Mark scarcely half (4)
 4 Test of endurance or agreement (6)
 5 Get ready to ride and slap dude senseless (6,2)
 6 Songbird is very loud when held by string on top of church (9)
 7 Beginning part of crucial phase (5)
 8 Flushed up and in, without woodworking tools (7)
 9 Kitchen utensil to keep kosher is a remarkable thing (6)
16 Blast it, the outside disappeared like the previous century (9)
17 Free trip is cut short (3)
18 Farmer reorganized debts (ours) (9)
19 Unfortunately, I trusted in leftovers (8)
20 Run to sell drugs, covering the tip of Brooklyn and Long Island (7)
22 Where rabbits are goin’ at it, we hear? (6)
23 Hold on after lens cracked (6)
25 One grabbing a piece of food is inappropriate (5)
28 Merely fair (4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3268
ACROSS 1 pun 9 anag. 10 CHIN + A 11 anag. 12 REST + ATE 13 A BY SMALL Y 16 “fined” 18 C(L)UE  19 RED B(A)ITER 21 “Farrow”  22 CH(ELSE)A[p] 25 [w]ELDER  26 TABLETAL + K (at ballet anag.)  27 letter bank 
DOWN 1 pun 2 VA + L + OR  3 SYNO + NY + MY (Sony anag.)  4 REES-E (rev.) 5 “poor trade”  6 INC. + ASE (sea anag.) 7 anag.  8 LAV ENDER 13 AC(CEP)TED (pec[k] rev.) 14 “use edit” 15 LAR[d] + GHETTO 17 BASEMEN + T  20 ZAG + REB 22 CAB + IN  23 hidden 24 AN + KLE (rev.)

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