Puzzle No. 3241

Puzzle No. 3241

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ACROSS
 1 Order a magazine from an underwriter? (9)
 6 An actor and a political assassin: both admitting ego, ultimately (5)
 9 Fortress to decorate again—but differently (7)
10 Trout is stewed for visitor (7)
11 Young bishop with crucifix (5)
12 Put back on the job to control government (9)
13 Two flat eels captured recently (2,4)
14 React to the heat with steeplechasing agent in retreat (8)
17 “Vote for Reagan”—it’s got a negative charge (8)
19 Camels chewed peyote (6)
22 Unwillingness to chill in chaotic center (9)
24 Hydrogen in dust storm produces dull sounds (5)
26 Stab at interim worker with end of bayonet (7)
27 Debatable piece of information and shabby coat involved in false identification (7)
28 Laughter urge fills it! (5)
29 Facial hair styling is part of what a mixologist must do? (9)
DOWN
 1 Laurel’s quiet massage (5)
 2 Entertain sleep requirement, perhaps (7)
 3 Subversive acted out, limiting start of partisan overthrow (4,5)
 4 Buries comedian Jonathan after decapitation (6)
 5 Twisted around ten—twisted and offered alcohol (8)
 6 Bus and el together in transit depression (5)
 7 Folding to rig a midshipman’s cargo (7)
 8 The oracle stirred oatmeal, for example (3,6)
13 Nomad, moving first to last and last to first, to feel pain and go too far (9)
15 Kept inside, incite Capone to attack with questions (9)
16 Lift heavyweight container over cloth wrapper—that’s best (8)
18 Name of teen lit compendium (7)
20 Columbo mistreated a physicist (7)
21 Make hard of hearing with a loud, mounting cry for going outside (6)
23 Pause as North Dakota secedes from jurisdiction (5)
25 In which prophet takes a bit of drink! (5)
 

 
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3240
ACROSS 1 OR(I)GINATE (a Roget in anag.) 6 PO + PUP 9 TOS + SPOT (sot rev.) 10 P(ROC)EED (deep rev.) 11 C(REAT)URE (rate anag.) 12 D(E)RIVE 14 anag. 16 WAL(L STREE)T (Lester anag.) 19 YES + TERDAYS (strayed anag.) 20 2 defs. 22 P + OUNCE 23 anag. 26 anag. 27 E-MANATE[e] 28 S + IDES 29 WINDS + WEPT
DOWN 1 anag. 2 IS + SUE 3 anag. 4 AFTER(WARD)S (faster anag.) 5 hidden 6 P + RO(PERT)Y 7 PRES(ID)ENT 8 anag. 13 anag. 15 AS + SAUL + TED 17 T(IMES)HE + [m]ET (semi rev.) 18 DE(I)CIDES 21 anag. 22 “pax” 24 IN AN E 25 rev.

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