Puzzle No. 3270

Puzzle No. 3270

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ACROSS
 1, 13 and 23 Redistributing assets each time, wholesaler lowers prices (10,10,10)
 6 Drug enforcement agent finally thrown a curve (4)
 9 Assistant protecting head of brown bear (5)
10 With Garbo making a comeback, devoured scandal (9)
12 Shut out, like this (4)
13 See 1
15 Sunday event deviously aimed for television and the like (4,5)
17 Frost’s utterance! (5)
19 Bottom drain is busted (5)
21 Picture is alight with two elements of Superman’s outfit (9)
23 See 1
25The Nation’s pronounced expense? Golly! (4)
27 Drastically remold doctors’ organization, resulting in emotional situation (9)
28 Free from the clutches of big labels, Fugazi at last breaks into Indiana and Delaware (5)
29 Nothing is ultimately unproven by a prosecutor (4)
30 Without limits, obese vagabond loses energy (10)
 
DOWN
 1 Artist who might be found tending bar? (9)
 2 Mistakes made by students climbing on school’s principal (7)
 3 Probe you internally heed (4)
 4 Currently popular—or to put it another way, doomed (2-3)
 5 Treat nine nuts as host (9)
 7 Hay tossed around 6, yielding chaos (7)
 8 Champs make a decision, it’s said (5)
11 Broken record: “Social Security is a humanitarian institution” (3,5)
14 Enthusiastically adopted retroactive command to purveyors of a meat-only diet? (8)
16 Draw as needed on the resources of a mild religious leader (5,4)
18 Serenely, I mixed cosmetics (9)
20 Accomplished dogface moved to the front and wasted time (7)
22 Finish broadcast with a rising mythic stringer? (7)
23 Signore, perhaps, or “man” in translation (5)
24 Underline a theoretical connection? (5)
26 Solid wood with marble top (4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3269
ACROSS 1 letter bank 6 anag. 10 anag. 11 DE(ADP)AN (PDA rev.) 12 hidden 13 PA(U)L 14 F + LAKE 15 R-EMOTE-[r] 17 “nub roses” Spoonerism 19 DIP[hthong] 20 PICK(ET)ED (&lit.) 21 SH(AD)OW 24 2 defs. 26 rev. 27 B(U)RR 29 anag. 30 SHUT(T)LE (hustle anag.) 31 2 defs. 32 anag. 
DOWN 2 ERGO + NO + MIC 3 SCAR[cely] 4 OR + DEAL 5 anag. 6 CHA(FF)IN + CH 7 hidden 8 SAN(DER)S (red rev.) 9 COR(K)ER 16 T(WENT)IETH (it the anag.) 17 RID[e] 18 anag. 19 anag. 20 PU(B + LI)SH 22 “warrin’” 23 NELS + ON (lens anag.) 25 UN(F)IT 28 2 defs.

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