Puzzle No. 3378

Puzzle No. 3378

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ACROSS

 1 Seven stars, and one who eats a lot of chips? (3,6)

 6 Following a revolution, Chinese factory contains places to get a drink (5)

 9 Exhausted couple enters our cabin at the rear (7)

10 Elevated roadway cut catastrophically after 6 CE (7)

11 Weep about stack of paper at the back of the dairy (8)

12 Mailer’s Terminator (6)

14 Paradise is an Internet lair? (4)

15 British poet rebuilt home sauna (1,1,7)

17 Femme fatale’s wig? (9)

19 NRA obsession is comfortable, if you think backwards (4)

21 Melting ice cap? It makes you want to throw up (6)

22 Element of Asian Tet offensive (8)

24 Pig’s belly holding second serving of slop (a large amount) (7)

25 Arnold going nuts around the first, second, or third (7)

26 Mature during promotion for radio receiver (5)

27 Lad gets side dish after company leaves—that describes one of nature’s
  inverse relationships (6,3)

DOWN

 1 Bring up bookcase’s top joint (6)

 2 Gee—lacking capital, port city north of Maine takes a step to produce
  opera (15)

 3 Versatile Roman in triathlon (7)

 4 Harshly criticize folds in certain body parts (10)

 5 Wander around with Bush’s brain (4)

 6 Conversation on French water for mansion (7)

 7 Henry, a reference will briefly be heard as pertaining to space-time (4-11)

 8 Stitching up rising American computer scientist (8)

13 Armies beginning to tangle in blood-spattered, terrifying tale (5,5)

16 Saint overrides call to hang (6,2)

18 Device that provides heat to a flower (7)

19 Terrible danger looms over Eastern potentate (7)

20 Man took a spill… ouch! (6)

23 Elitist bastard grabs the last piece of bacon (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3377

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ACROSS 1 S(P)LASH 4 IN JURIES 9 “Ray’s cane” 11 hidden 12 ANGST + [f]ROM 13 “meatier” 15 alternate letters 17 TREA(SURE)D 18 DART + AG + NAN 20 O.C. + CUR 22 L.A. + BRAT 23 DATE + PAL + M 26 THE + T.A. 27 CA(ES + AREA)N 28 SENT IN EL 29 SLEEV (anag.) + E 

DOWN 1 SURF ACE 2 2 defs. 3 S + WEE + TIE 5 NA + NA (rev.) 6 U(SELES)S 7 I + SOME + TRIC[k] 8 S(EE)S RED (dress anag.) 10 A(DOP)TING (giant anag., pod rev.) 14 [g]-REEN-G + AGE 16 CAR(I)B + BEAN 18 DI(LUTE)S 19 hidden 20 OVER (anag.) + [c]ALL[s] 21 ROMAN(C)E (rev.) 24 A + DELE 25 initial letters

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