Puzzle No. 3361

Puzzle No. 3361

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ACROSS

 1 ” Barb”: that is one choice among terms of endearment (5)

 4 Through crash, ban my foes (2,5,2)

 9 What you might be doing in the apartment as malfunctioning Net breaks up a call (7)

10 Hamlet opposing sick era (7)

11 Did he know all about Eve in the “morning after” commercial? (4)

12 Gandhi’s last neutral robe is something drawing interest (10)

14 Strangely, the sting becomes more constrained (8)

16 Gladiator, possibly restricted near Mideastern country (5)

19 Long, thick hair finally upset the artist of Olympia (5)

20 Crazy antics preceding Marty’s last two symbols for holiness (8)

22 Appalling lack: Ben-Hur getting time off to eat (5,5)

25 Vagabonds after high school, gone with the wind (4)

27 Womanizer returns, ultimately unforgiven with a casual acknowledgment around outskirts of Juneau (3,4)

28 Person from Shakespeare, in love, facing tense greeting (7)

29 Schindler’s list of characters lost independent and Republican to drink in European region (9)

30 Prize found in Argo’s cargo, which was earned by the 5 that appears in each clue (5)

DOWN

 1 The sound of music from Bach’s pen (6)

 2 Make leather, then do it again twice, with different covers coming out of Africa (9)

 3 Titanic hit ice while maintaining power (4)

 4 Recruits porters outside grand hotel (9)

 5 Film’s standard procedure: covering the life of Emile Zola (5)

 6 Everyone repeat and say, “Mrs. Miniver,” perhaps (10)

 7 Seattle’s west side story is trite (5)

 8 Disturbed, if gentle—like the best years of our lives (8)

13 Presidential residence in Casablanca? (5,5)

15 Angling so craftily for an event where ordinary people make their voices heard (4-5)

17 I’m able to misread Chicago, originally, as pertaining to a biochemical process (9)

18 Rocky, dim slope collapses (8)

21 What I might have to take when going my way amid stampede to Uruguay (6)

23 Patton in ‘thirty-five, capturing roughly 11 percent (5)

24 Extend a contract with actress Russo on the waterfront (5)

26 Man seen in The Godfather, Part II (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3360

ACROSS 1 LOCO + MOTION 6 PAG-E (rev.) 10 PAR + TNER (rev.) 11 EY(ELI)DS (dyes anag.) 12 YE + ATS (anag.) 13 anag. 14 CON + TEMP + LATE 17 & 18 SUN + DRY 19 CORN + ERST + ORE 21 anag. 24 rev. 25 REDBO (anag.) + OK 26 D(ROUGH)T 27 pun 28 A NEST + HE + TIC

DOWN 1 LI(PSY)NC 2 anag. 3 [v/M]-ENUS 4 “perm taper” spoonerism 5 hidden 7 ALIT + O 8 [p]EPSI + LON[g] 9 anag. 15 ES(CARGO)T 16 ARE + AC + ODES 17 S(POT)LIGHT 18 DI(AGRA)M 20 anag. 22 TO(DA)Y 23 [s]TA[r] + KEN 24 2 defs.

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