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ACROSS

 1 Red wine covers fashionable instrument that makes very low sounds (4,8)

 9 Coat dislocated back of guitar player (5)

10 Colorado mountain talk (5,4)

11 Financial returns in occupancy rate? No more (8)

12 Initially jocular element in slang (6)

14 Broken cane, maybe (9)

17 Crime’s true weight (5)

19 Night-flying doohickey? (5)

21 Someone not sharing property that’s new or remodeled (4,5)

23 Discredit, or toss out of bed? (6)

24 “Kiss and hug” clue sat uncorrected (8)

28 Commuter’s cheer in Oregon (9)

29 Doctor! I have an urgent need (5)

30 Strangely, these folk fit with something to be considered—it might help you finish solving five of the Across clues (6,2,4)

DOWN

 1 Stick with retrograde policy for a bar, conceivably (5)

 2 Street gag for a while: … (7)

 3 …prance about without a bit of nervousness! (5)

 4 For Aaron, the first will be last—that’s a symbol of life (4)

 5 Second cousin’s tantalizing, to some extent (7)

 6 Something that’s always popular: horrific revenge involving emergency room (9)

 7 Pioneering magazine supporting struggle over dope’s affection (4,4)

 8 Pelt second cousin, for example (4)

13 and 16 Health of a water source (a lake) (8)

15 Pay back ungodly sum with, er, brie (9)

16 See 13

18 Secret urge: never to employ a Russian writer (8)

20 Dated joint affliction besets one (4,3)

22 Ed heads north to infiltrate pious, eccentric Catholic group (4,3)

23 In the end, layered frozen dessert could be cut into small pieces (4)

25 Shoots up part of a letter (5)

26 Religious group in the morning, more or less? (5)

27 Fly (an insect, by the sound of it) (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3336  

ACROSS 1 IMP + LIED + CON + SENT 10 C([o]ATS)UPS 11 BE + EH + I’VE 12 MOL(ECUL)AR (clue anag.) 13 [s]ICILY 14 last letters (&lit.) 16 2 defs. 18 2 defs. 19 anag. 22 anag. 23 “euchre-ist” 26 anag. 27 A + MORO (anag.) + US 28 letter bank

DOWN 2 hidden 3 L(A)UNCH 4 [l]-EASE-L 5 anag. 6 NE(EDIE)ST 7 anag. 8 “Thai died” 9 A(CU)MEN 15 SOURC(R)E + AM 16 BROKE RAGE 17 PR(E + D)ATOR (raptor anag., &lit.) 18 SP(A + N)IEL 20 charade (&lit.) 21 P + A + GOD + A (rev.) 24 CR + AWL 25 2 defs.