Puzzle No. 3318

Puzzle No. 3318

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ACROSS

 1 Raise money (4)

 3 Lincoln, for example, with Republicans and some soldiers’ apparel (5,5)

10 Part of a blind woman’s spread (7)

11 What you hope to fill somehow: a grid in the morning (7)

12 Direct declaration of identity, one adopted by companion (9)

13 What a pusher might say is a principle (5)

14 Liveliness of reformed priest (6)

16 More languid and feeble when returning in bumpy ride (8)

18 Military equipment to damage road (8)

19 Associate with 26 clutching nitrogen bomb at the rear (6)

22 Master beginning of lesson with net (5)

23 Lenses to look back around? You betcha, that is cold (9)

25 Letter from moronic drunk (7)

26 Virginia award for wanderer (7)

27 In Berlin, a woman precedes you with advanced criminal (10)

28 Capture constituent in retreat (4)

DOWN

 1 What some people like with whiskey? That’s right (7)

 2 Loveliness can, initially, hurt (5)

 4 It might prevent injury (a broken rib, a gash in front) (3,3)

 5 Cooper has bit of desire to understand technological devices (8)

 6 Singer locating love, holding three notes (7,7)

 7 Henrik Ibsen, for instance, on wearing slips (9)

 8 Not unlike a knight hiding damaged mail (7)

 9 Chicken heard to paddle and call in terror (5,6,3)

15 Absurd caper with bread for each person (3,6)

17 Private ran amok, consumed by information from espionage (8)

18 Overturn rule on possible bad grades for historic New York hotel (7)

20 Where your commute might start with a kiss: on a peak (3,4)

21 Hail swallowed by bird in the sky (6)

24 Outside, I burn a piece of furniture (5)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3317

1 letter bank 9 E(LLIPS)E (spill rev.) 10 anag. (&lit.) 11 PHE(NO MEN)A (heap anag.) 12 hidden 13 anag. 16 & 18 RED + RAW 19 anag. 21 “souls” 22 AND(ROME)DA 25 AVO (rev.) + CAD + O 26 T([e]RIC)ORN 27 2 defs.

DOWN 1 S(LEEP)WEAR (peel rev.) 2 NO(L)TE 3 I’M PRO-VE 4 hidden 5 TIM + PAN + IS + T 6 EASTE(R)N (Senate anag.) 7 APPLET + RE + E 8 2 defs. 14 anag. 15 ACUT(ABO + V)E 17 DART + AG + NAN 19 M IS CAST 20 IV(OR)IES 21 hidden (&lit.) 23 DE[x]TER 24 EC(O)LI (lice anag.)

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