Puzzle No. 3414

Puzzle No. 3414

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ACROSS

 1 Father is someone expressing regret aloud (4)

 3 Dutchcummerbund who was the first European to reach New Zealand
(4,6)

10 Avoiding rear of house, ruminate with Carol outside (9)

11 Drive to edge in reverse (5)

12 The tip of that sword? It is conical (5)

13 Incites a boy with sandwich filling (3,5)

16 and 21 Charm made from tail and piece of corn (6)

18 Store curls and scrolls holder in fat (11)

20 Fixing to take a break, a speech… (11)

21 and 28 down …before your listener is crude (6)

22 Silverstein describes mythical creature beginning to promote personal
growth (4-4)

24 The French write in a leader of the right wing (2,3)

27 Flow down and come down (5)

28 A fun place, where all the rides celebrate yours truly (5,4)

29 Heading west, notice Southern California policeman—a world-
threatening disaster (10)

30 Small child’s slide (4)

DOWN

 1 Ruined trees with wheat and honey (10)

 2 Go over car model’s comeback (5)

 4 Standardized language when energy company gets fuel ship behind
schedule (11)

 5 and 16 Story of a foot? (6)

 6 Where you might adopt a pet snake: on the outskirts of Calcutta (5)

 7 Leukemia cured, gains weight in Midwestern city (9)

 8 Bit of writing excluding the most common letter… (4)

 9 …mentions iron in exotic resort (6,2)

14 Unwisely grasp slicer (a device found in the kitchen) (6,5)

15 Thoroughly exposed, risked cover for breaking rank (5,5)

17 Bandit perishes, lacking source of information for each difficulty (9)

19 Landers on the face of Uranus overturned—valley obliterated (8)

23 Loving a Hollywood star (5)

25 Part of a platform that’s resorted to after 10 others have failed? (5)

26 Scheme for middleman to ignore the odds (4)

28 See 21

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3413

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ACROSS 1 CHAPS TICK 6 E(XX)ON (one anag.) 9 M(EMBER)S 10 SOP + RAN + O 11 “can’t anchor us” 14 CAS(H)E + W 15 FLU + [y]-ENTL-Y 17 OVERT ONE 19 2 defs. 21 INVEST + I + GATOR 25 RED RAFT 26 RE + A LIST 27 M + AYBE (anag.) 28 “nude eeler”

DOWN 1 [d/C]-O(MICA)CTOR 2 AD(MINIS)TER (rated anag.) 3 SEE PAGE 4 anag. 5 anag. 6 ESPO (anag.) + USE 7 “wrecks” pig Latin 8 palindrome 12 anag. 13 T(Y + PEW)RITER 16 UN(B)EATEN 18 TON + NA + GE (rev.) 20 anag. 22 “through” 23 PRO + M 24 initial letters

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