Puzzle No. 3248

Puzzle No. 3248

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ACROSS
 1 Mom’ s tunic turned red (9)
 6 and 5 downStick Bugs Bunny, say, with disgusting receptacle (8)
 8 Abandoned and dissolute, Dave adopts a pet (7)
 9 Catapult is orange, shockingly (6)
10 Yellow beef upset Daryl (8)
11 Swivel to spoil a place for a flower (one that’s in a hole) (6)
14 Rank one who binds? (4)
16 Green decor stripped: something taken from a tree (one California laurel) at last (10)
18 Everyone knows that recent pose is affected (4,6)
19 Transmission about long fiber (4)
21 Teaches trumpet players to be heard (6)
22 Blue item that might keep a fracture warm? (8)
26 Start to rig indigo cargo (6)
27 Separate one, very dead (7)
28 Stuff langoustine guts for dessert (4)
29 In time, dog beginning to terrify shrinking violet (9)
DOWN
 1 Honda running forward and in reverse (5)
 2 Bird with a computer—how cute (5)
 3 Leaders of progressive trade unions split coffee container increase (6)
 4 Crassness, as a cynic lied deviously (10)
 5 See 6 across
 6 It’s characterized by extraordinary escape involving acceleration and gravity! (5,3)
 7 One dialect in translation (9)
12 Note West Coast airport chill (5)
13 Storyteller is perverse ogler, captivated by elite group (10)
14 Singularly, 21A cooked a fish that might exhibit the colors mentioned in order in seven clues (5)
15 Randomly relocate opening for lecturer in one kind of college (9)
17 Unusual set and star in Knocked Up—this might affect you if you were knocked up (8)
20 Altogether, command given to a dog with respect to a basket? (2,4)
23 Saw commercial era (5)
24 Ultimately, post small bit of text! (5)
25 Ain’t—more correctly, “is not”—pro (4)
 
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3247
 

ACROSS 1 pun 5 Q + WE + RTY (try anag.) 10 hidden 11 LIVER + POOL 12 CHE + ROOT 13 S(CHER + Z)O 14 “tolled” 16 THOUSAND + S (and shout anag.) 18 ANGL(I CAN)S (slang anag.) 19 hidden 21 anag. 22 CROAT + IA (actor anag.) 24 ON + AVER + AGE 25 rev. hidden 26 SC + YLLA (rev.) 27 anag.
DOWN 1 RA(INCA)TS AND DOGS 2 VAL(V)E 3 NOT ION 4 UN(L)IT 6 W + ARCHEST 7 anag. 8 pun 9 E(V.A.’S)IONS (noise anag.) 15 anag. 16 TRA + DEGAP (rev.) 17 SIDE + REAL 20 anag. 22 hidden 23 T(O)SCA (cast anag.)

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