Puzzle No. 3333

Puzzle No. 3333

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ACROSS

 1 Oil company restricts identifying images in this place, the world of online opinions (11)

 7 Initiator of workplace tussle over lunch items (5)

 8 Mathematician accepting homemade periodical’s transparency (9)

10 Ronald: bad actor and governor (6)

11 Sheraton polluted a body of water (5,3)

12 Can make it haler, eh?! (9)

14 Therefore, monster returns (4)

17 Regretted speaker’s boorish… (4)

18 …blather and rant: “Get in buggy” (9)

20 Two air conditioners outside nearly draw oxygen in seaside resort (8)

22 Hinder a redesign of my site (6)

24 Vegetables, for example, with green bottoms containing a bit of lycopene (9)

25 Accompaniment for ale or sack, surprisingly involving fifth of booze (5)

26 Writer of trash took in an ancient city (11)

DOWN

 1 Underwear provided for piece of the skull (9)

 2 Only parts to be sadly out of date (8)

 3 Wild party is held in outdoor gymnasium (4)

 4 Undermine clout and trap one of the Koch brothers, perhaps (9)

 5 Laws cited wrongly by Senate’s leader (6)

 6 Planes are in Haarlem, for example (5)

 7 Rudimentary anemometer is loud (if useless) (7,4)

 9 Tyne Daly’s costar and lead in Hunter admitted to going naked in Malaysia? (6,5)

13 Characteristic of lamb on ice, with ingredients chopped up and reused (9)

15 Spooner’s principal gardener is someone who brings in business (9)

16 Unusually clean pet is a magical symbol (8)

19 Hero allowed in an apartment arrangement (6)

21 For instance, Michael Lange is in distress (5)

23 A continent like Iowa (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3332

ACROSS 1 PO(LITE)SSE 6 PA + YUP 9 2 defs. 10 anag. 11 B(LAST OF)F 12 anag. 14 hidden 15 WA + TERS(LID)E 18 GI + A + COMET + TI (rev.) 19 CHE + F 22 2 defs. 24 RESTARE + A 26 AD(VAN + T)AGE 27 C(R)OAT 28 ELS(I)E 29 POT + HOLDER

DOWN 1 pun 2 LAG + [d]UAR[f] + DIA (rev.) 3 hidden 4 S(NOW)F + LAKES 5 E-M.I.T. 6 P(RIM)ROSE 7 YEAS + T 8 PA’S SAGE 13 GENTE(EL)EST (teen gets anag.) 16 IS + HER(WOO)D 17 letter bank 18 GAR(B)AGE 20 2 defs. 23 F + AVES 25 G + ASP

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