Puzzle No. 3381

Puzzle No. 3381

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ACROSS

 1 Maude’s cracking up laughing (6)

 5 Makeshift containers flipped about sport organization (7)

10 Turner heading to Indonesian island (5)

11 Normal representation of a beautiful woman eating a dog (source
of vitamins) (4,5)

12 Audibly scrape aircraft in part of the Midwest (5,6)

13, 16 down and 22 Although revolutionary Communist is brutally killed… (9)

14 …”Soldier’s Return” is included in choral arrangement for one of
the powerful few (8)

17 Appreciate university during depression (5)

19 Search outside of a familiar hangout (5)

20 I run after wild pigeon in negligee (8)

22 See 13

23 They do the unconventional thing when the drinks are on the house? (4,7)

26 Traveling guys, or car carrying someone else’s child (9)

27 Quick comeback for badass, at first? (5)

28 Mad gene mutated in the final stage (7)

29 Power to blend green and yellow (6)

DOWN

 2 Rodents eating a bit of nectarine, cut in small pieces (5)

 3 Close-fitting knit unraveled in view (9)

 4 Amateur painter incorporates bit of lavender (7)

 5 Tailless hawk, for example, perches like a hog (7)

 6 Ocean predators soar freely around canoe’s prow (5)

 7 Italian general destroyed airbag and lid (9)

 8 More attractive favorite taking “Introduction to Robotics” class (8)

 9 Looking up, swallow some tobacco (4)

15 Boosted agreement, acquiring subsidiary to put through the wash (9)

16 See 13 across

17 Pass air through something you might buy at Starbucks with time off (9)

18 Ancient rabbinical leader heaps ire indiscriminately (8)

20 Opening remarks of official in walk (7)

21 Yeltsin, tailored fashionably (2,5)

23 Story: “A Talking Vegetable Life” (5)

24 Hockey infraction here in Montreal? No good (5)

25 Look for date with a thousand dollars (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3380

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ACROSS 1 pun 9 M + ARIA 10 anag. 11 letter bank 12 WA + CO 14 F + LYING 15 AS + TERISM (anag.) 17 S(HEAT)HED  (&lit.) 19 PLA(C)ID 22 hidden 23 anag. 26 anag. 27 I + VIES 28 POST + PONE +  MEN + T

DOWN 1 rev. 2 TYRA (anag.) + N + NY 3 FR(A TERN + IT)Y 4 CUT + ESY (anag.) 5 TRAVERS + E 6 hidden 7 WAS + A BI[t] 8 RE + FOR + MED 13 anag. 14 F + ESTIVAL 16 RE + LEVANT 18 E + IF + FEL[l] 20 CAP SIZE 21 K + I + MONO 24 rev. hidden 25 CIA + O

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