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ACROSS
1 Teach heavyweight attachments and relaxed behaviors (13)
9 They refer to women with a male chromosome in a Pennsylvania town (7)
10 Professor’s helper eating stewed toads with Mexican food (7)
11 Fortune comes to the United States? That’s a difficult position to maintain (5)
12 In retrospect, established oceans as a quick way to start communication (5,4)
13 Fade out, like a post? (4)
14 Fire-resistant creature recalled Communist war zone, unfortunately (10)
18 Where lunatics might have been placed, shuffled about with some repetition (6,4)
19 Spoiled child is second-rate pest (4)
22 What the Rev. Robertson might say: “I left after inaugural, being unable to wait” (9)
25 Came stumbling around average Arab city (5)
26 President of France stops short in nearby country (7)
27 Taking advantage of one adopted by civil rights leader (7)
28 To begin with, you and me donning unmentionables for insufficient compensation (13)
DOWN
1 At home with a prince, editor did not emulate Bill Clinton (7)
2 Trees, in comparison with wood’s finish, are derived from the source (9)
3 Paraphrase concerning a drug (6)
4 Returning through mossy barbecue pit (5)
5 Check location of interstate arrest, apprehending our rivals (2,3,4)
6 We have reached agreement after rethinking last idea (3,1,4)
7 Religious teacher in Southwest: “Do I exist?” (5)
8 Warden’s clash keeping Yale student up (6)
15 Bum crawled with, um, a metalworking tool (3,6)
16 Incited or disrupted instruction (9)
17 Heading for California’s draw? (8)
18 Soft and easy makes for a precarious situation (6)
20 Great, as disperser! (4,3)
21 Excerpt from poem: “Blemish is a symbol” (6)
23 Paul and I cooked a rice dish (5)
24 Cap on Pennsylvania city (5)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3352
ACROSS 7 anag. 9 T + H(IN)AIR 10 S(US + P)ECT 11 2 defs. 17 FLU + E 24 S(C)ANDAL 25 phonetic hidden 26 anag.
DOWN 1 ANT(I)HER + O 2 anag. 3 SO(BRIE)T + Y 4 hidden 5 rev. hidden 6 alternate letters 7 HOTS + HOTS 8 WITH + DREW 13 FRE(EBASER)S (serf rev., beer as anag.) 14 ALL + ERGENIC (anag.) 16 FI (rev.) + ELDERS 18 anag. 20 HI + AT + US 21 I(N)LOVE (olive anag.) 22 RS + VP 23 hidden
