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ACROSS
1 Musical composed only of Earth sign symbols (6,2,3,4)
9 Oval Office’s ending with backward tumble? Excellent (7)
10 Most hip dancing?! (4,3)
11 “Ladies Only” in random heap for special events (9)
12 Poem that laments Israel-Egypt connection (5)
13 Revision of 19A, for example: (11)
16 and 18 Create a new image of doubly rare… (6)
19 …climber, seeing 13 differently (11)
21 Listening to spirits, we step on them (5)
22 Princess and prosecutor taking in capital (9)
25 Fruit and eggs returned by rotter along with bagel (7)
26 Eric, dropping Ecstasy, wears lacerated hat (7)
27 Economic catastrophe in the Grand Canyon? (5,10)
DOWN
1 Promise to hide skin, pulling up pajamas (9)
2 Bill gets left with Nick (5)
3 I am in favor of victory in Europe? Correct (7)
4 Questionnaire nearly reveals girl’s name (5)
5 Drummer Burton: negative review is carried by Time (9)
6 Like New Jersey, dysfunctional Senate welcomes Republican (7)
7 Single-purpose computer program concerning energy for a plant (5,4)
8 Smart like Turner? (5)
14 Nasty clue: “Women getting frowned upon” (9)
15 Superior description of disease involving blood types (five) (1,3,5)
17 Move quickly with silver and bread for musketeer (9)
19 Bond’s boss is thrown in the wrong role (7)
20 Some schools restricting gold teeth (7)
21 It’s “in”—hipsters’ language! (5)
23 Thwart serial killer on TV, losing adult rating (5)
24 Disgusting lice devouring love bug (1,4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3316
ACROSS 1 E(XC)LUDE 5 A(CC)EPT (tape anag.) 8 FIG(U)RE (grief anag.) 9 HAS + H(M)ARK 10 THAT + CHER 11 “mice” + ELF 12 anag. 14 [e]VEEP (rev.) 15 AV + IS 17 B(O(OK)K)EEPER 20 “pence’ll” 22 GR(EAT)APE 23 anag. 24 CHAN + EL 25 E + MER + GE (rev.) 26 anag.
DOWN 1 EPI (anag.) + THE + T 2 COUNT(L)ESS 3 URET (anag.) + HR + A 4 anag. 5 ASS(UM)ES 6 hidden 7 PAR + O + LEE 13 hidden 14 VIENTIAN (anag.) + E 16 VI(ETNA)M (ante rev.) 17 BE(LIE + V)E 18 K(NEE[d])CAP (pack rev.) 19 E[m/X]PRESS 21 “reach” rev. 22 G(US)TO (got anag.)
