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ACROSS
1 Burn coats off back in worker’s platform (8)
5 Pertaining to an ancient system of enmity? (6)
10 Sign and leave after six runs (5)
11 Does my pun upset Lewis Carroll, for instance? (9)
12 Poured water on blemish, with father turning over in bed (8)
13 Went after last piece of shoe leather (5)
15 With nothing left inside, cut out (7)
18 Baseball organization to interpret end of play so soon? (7)
19 Fanny doesn’t finish a drink (3)
20 Tailless ape, 27, is a monster… (7)
22 …in a tree around mid-January (7)
24 Groups of players in California streets (5)
25 Sheltered individual who is likely to regale you at awkward and tedious length about trivial details of his or her everyday life invested in firm (8)
29 Capital prosecutor is captivated by uninteresting ruminant (9)
30 Island with a charge (5)
31 Controlling disfigured giant grabbing man’s head (6)
32 In public, he redistributed good stock (4,4)
DOWN
1 Second Avenue bar (4)
2 Nothing is found in craft (a vessel) (5)
3 Direct Howard to enter disorderly flat (7)
4 Overtake Arizona city (2,3)
6 Change ensured for consumer (3,4)
7 Eerie canal held a Charleston venue, perhaps (5,4)
8 Where to find wood and grease applied around dark brown masonry, ultimately (10)
9 Engineer had ample gear for a miner (8)
14 Edward, to serve well, crowns upwardly mobile ditz (5,5)
16 Uncovered idea for downfall (9)
17 Old money’s pathetic, sad charm (8)
21 Excellent, like a seabird toward sunrise (7)
23 Gas? That sounds sadistic (7)
26 Play organ reflectively, showing off for the king (5)
27 Period of time to manage rising hydrogen (5)
28 Go crazy with false insolence (4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3368
ACROSS 1 RUBBER + DUCK 6 anag. 10 rev. hidden 11 & 12 anag. 13 OFF + ICES 14 BOOS + TERCABLE (bracelet anag.) 19 IN(VE)STIGATOR 22 BAR RAGE 24 SLEE + PIN (rev.) 25 BITTE + REND 26 AL + IKE 27 hidden 28 anag.
DOWN 1 REP AIR 2 B RANCH 3 anag. 4 rev. 5 COMMONER + A 7 anag. 8 rev. 9 2 defs. 15 SPI(KE + HE)EL 16 2 defs. 17 BIT(BY)BIT 18 OVERST (anag.) + EP 20 SP(R)ITZ 21 UNRE (anag.) + AD 23 APE + X 24 hidden
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