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ACROSS
1 God rested by vessel (6)
4 Something you might eat at the shore: gruesome, macabre bit of turtle (8)
9 Appear in a stream, when moving from last to first place (6)
10 A piece of underwear is back on, with evidence of being worn (8)
12 Rocker, say, clutching tattered lamé fabric (5,4)
13 Bette loses head for layabout (5)
14 Motor, knockin’, contains pebble by error (6,6)
18 Onset of financial bubbles involves rent strike at first for people who have claimed, improbably, that their ideas are gaining support around the globe (4-8)
21 Germanic language has metallic sound (5)
22 Death is yonder, with impressionist (3,6)
24 Place ointment around middle of scar (8)
25 Retiring child outwardly into drilling apparatus (3,3)
26 Heaven is seen in exhibit (8)
27 Burns vote against returning African (6)
DOWN
1 Engineer sees a cap in maritime artwork (8)
2 Atrium is befouled with dessert (8)
3 Lift handle with delight (5)
5 What a ghoul does outside a hospital area: start to taunt poet and novelist (6,6)
6 Snack and case of beer uplifted Minnelli fan (6,3)
7 Belied treatment as safe, in a way (6)
8 Guide to having great sex with many screaming fits? (6)
11 Moans from dudes in Louisiana station with second delay (12)
15 Forced to remove labels, getting up after I lob explosive (9)
16 What comes after I behead a big cat: the beginning of your peril (8)
17 Something most women have: no egrets (oops, typo) (8)
19 Punk helps to accommodate debut of chanteuse in drag (6)
20 Performer and doctor grabbing walking cane (6)
23 Omit something from barrel I’d emptied (5)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3482
ACROSS 1 VAC(ILL)ATION 7 & 27 PAN + TRY 9 TR(I)UMP + H 10 S(HALL)OW 11 LLAM(A)S (rev.) 12 anag. 14 GREATW (anag.) + ALL 15 anag. 16 [b/W]-IPED 18 anag. 20 T(WITCH)ED 22 FA[c]ULTY 25 anag. 26 W + HITMAN 28 PARENT(HE)SIS
DOWN 1 VI(T)AL 2 C(LIMA)TE (etc rev.) 3 LA(MBA)STED 4 A + SHE 5 IN + S(TALL)ING 6 N(EAT)O 7 PAL + A DIN 8 [t]NEW + L + YWED + S (rev.) 13 DA + TAC (rev.) + ENTER 14 GO(W)ITHOUT (I ought to anag.) 15 S(Q)UE + AMISH 17 PRI(VA)CY 19 CO([p]LUM)NS 21 CH + IMP 23 Y(AN)KS (sky rev.) 24 T + WIN
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