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Puzzle No. 3347

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

Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

December 9, 2014

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

ACROSS

 1 The Spanish voter is upset about a way to get high (8)

 5 Apple item likely to be found inside prune (6)

10 Pass gnarly tree with apostle (5)

11 To help make westbound tunnel big, I ride an airship (9)

12 24 switched around 30 (6,4,3)

14 Orator’s convinced to get leather (5)

15 Came forward with dolls, holding hollow dice back (7,2)

18 That raAonale’s all the more persuasAve (1,8)

22 Ovine blather for the final words (5)

24 12 switched around 30 (6,4,3)

27 Tommy Stone twirled a rope (4,5)

28 Health resort to proceed with Puckish restaurant? (5)

29 Woman who states she’s biased? (6)

30 You won’t often find this in a 1 Across—or in Tennessee, either, strangely (8)

 

DOWN

 1 Where you might encounter traffic in malicious spyware and sex (10)

 2 Radical text: “Remember to keep it inside” (7)

 3 OK, one welcome envelops half of humanity (9)

 4 Ancient Greek reference work is about plutonium (7)

 6 “Fonteyn going topless” (it’s slang) (5)

 7 Engineer bid a lot for newspaper (7)

 8 After turning down the volume, a bug is something heard in court (4)

 9 Air surrounding Rhode Island is like God, according to some (6)

13 Clumsy 4 drops ring on feathers the wrong way (6,4)

16 13 sing for pitch (3)

17 It came earlier, back when there was no way to indicate position on a computer screen? (9)

19 Capitol in order? That’s a kind of illusion (7)

20 22 bananas were originally visible (2,4)

21 A pop pursuing mischievous child to make an accusation (7)

23 Desecrate a stringed instrument with Lawrence (7)

25 Give vent to feelings when a book on your Kindle turns up? (5)

26 Right time to regret (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3346

ACROSS 9 [s]MOOCH 10 OV + ERE + XER T (rev.) 11 anag. 12 rev. hidden 13 anag. 15 CIV + I + C 17 STAR + EAT 18 DOS + AGES 20 AR(I)ES 22 CE(REBEL)LA (Alec rev.) 24 PI(G)TA + IL 26 CH(R + ON)IC 27 anag. 28 [g]ABLER

DOWN 1 IMP + A LA 2 M + OTHER + MAY I 3 anag. 4 V(OL)T 5 R(ECONS)IDER (scone anag.) 6 SEPT + IC 7 [f]-LEA-F 8 letter bank 14 ART + ICU + LATE 16 VI +  GILANTLY (anag.) 17 SHAM + PO + O’S 19 anag. 21 STA(L)IN  23 AC + CORD 25 rev. 26 anag.

Joshua Kosman and Henri PicciottoJoshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto are The Nation’s puzzlers. To read more about Kosman, click here. To read more about Picciotto, click here. Kosman and Picciotto explain what they’re up to in “Solving The Nation’s Cryptic Crosswords” (also available as a PDF). Check out The Nation’s Current Issue page each week for the latest puzzle.


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