Puzzle No. 3323

Puzzle No. 3323

And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

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And don’t miss Kosman and Picciotto’s crossword blog, Word Salad.

ACROSS

 1 Each one dropped a type of anesthetic (5)

 4 Once again, go through irate letters—some of them more than once (9)

 9 Preparing for a trip around the outskirts of Nagasaki in a state of extreme fear (9)

10 Hitch drone bomber at first behind rear of aircraft (5)

11 Antelope decapitated—gory times! (4)

12 Capital spot, said to be shifted two degrees (5,5)

14 Inside and out, put an end to chef’s workspace (8)

15 Injure fellow with broken leg (6)

18 Shy bride undressed in mix-up? (6)

19 Form of address, outside-in, for government official (8)

22 To speaker’s helper, holding back stogie is kind of sad and kind of funny (10)

24 Contrarian attaches clip (4)

26 Pretend to hide returning soldier in swamp (5)

27 Raises chickens, catches 8 (9)

28 Cleaned up city governed by Mayor Koch (9)

29 Expresses frustration with sung mass (5)

DOWN

 1 Gives a job to spy and mole, irresponsibly (7)

 2 Improve clumsy boy MC’s arrangement of “Beeswax” (9)

 3 Torment a lamb, in part (4)

 4 In the military, time off before operation gets one a little water (8)

 5 Where to find this woman’s name? (6)

 6 Listening to a Japanese teenager, possibly putting someone out of their misery (10)

 7 A dog and a car (5)

 8 Enclose amber waves outside of Cheyenne (7)

13 Asked to place particle inside D (10)

16 Eviscerate front of book stuck in malfunctioning green printer (9)

17 Slandered monstrous devil, assuming I was taken in (8)

18 Vicious, nasty fault, eh? (7)

20 Dad, when parting, takes five meals (7)

21 Parent of a lepidopterist? (6)

23 Cube coated with gold is so long (5)

25 Leaders of the House undermine society this way (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3322

ACROSS 1 COUNTER + TOP 6 “hi” 10 N(ANC)Y + DREW 11 MA + DAM 12 [b]URGE[r] 13 BO + R(NAG)AIN 15 EL + EVENT + H 18 M(U)ESLI (smile anag.) 19 T + ISSUE 21 BE HE MOTH 25 anag. 26 CO + IL 28 IS + LET 29 STAG + EH + AND 30 2 defs. 31 BOTTOM + LINE (Nile anag.)

DOWN 1 C + ONE 2 [g]UNNER + VE 3 “time” 4 anag. 5 ON + WARD (rev.) 7 INDIA(N)S (said “Ni” rev.) 8 HUM + AN + RIGHT 9 tea I’m + rum anag. 14 LEFT + B(EH)IND (he rev.) 16 E + QUALITY (&lit.) 17 HUB[ble] 20 S(WALL)OW 22 EXTRA + CT 23 OR + I(GAM)I (mag rev.) 24 hidden 26 CR(E)AM 27 hidden

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