Puzzle No. 3402

Puzzle No. 3402

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ACROSS

 1 Legume enthusiast catches Gardner with bare shoulders (4,4)

 5 Love to sail to Washington with Native American (6)

10 Restore unfinished puzzle with broken lid (7)

11 Dress to shock, concealing note (7)

12 Hot rod crashing outside a stockpile (5)

13 One who might perform sacred music, or They Might Be Giants (8)

15 Not in motion during 49er timeout (5)

17 Eva Peron’s inauguration: give a speech and vanish into thin air (9)

19 Lawmaker playing, uh, marimba? (9)

21 Darkness near the middle of daytime (5)

23 I see a limitation and turn sharply, coming back to get soup (8)

25 Earth without gravity is spherical (5)

27 After hours, dissolute priest becomes someone who is with it (7)

28 Hack allowed introduction to virtual media option (5,2)

29 Prose? Not even an attempt! (6)

30 Wanderer’s headless corpse and literary doctor getting back in front (8)

DOWN

 1 Straightforward announcement of what follows baptism, confirmation,
and marriage? (10)

 2 Shake obnoxious child in the midst of contest (7)

 3 Tie a string across top of lamp shade (5)

 4 Saharan dromedary carries an ancient princess (9)

 6 In Munich, certainly, show eagerness to control an area where some
Asians live (9)

 7 Sit uncomfortably amid, say, Egyptian uprising with representative of
the counterculture? (7)

 8 Rod, with a spin, put something unknown in beer (4)

 9 Suspend boundless variation (4)

14 Actress, coming in late, helped perpetrate a crime at car rental agency
(5,5)

16 Musician beginning to take a drink with a saint (9)

18 In Dominica, a bizarre organic compound (5,4)

20 Entrée: encounter a Greek character on the telephone (4,3)

22 Man, before eating a piece of Roquefort cheese… (7)

24 …removed part of an apple using radio wire (4)

25 Investigates topless attire (5)

26 Man with crack (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 4401

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ACROSS 1 BAD + MINT + ON 6 C(ACT)I 9 FOR M, S 10 letter bank 11 C(OCKR)OACH (rock anag.) 12 L + OVED (rev.) 13 LI + VEIN 14 RES[t] + [t]ELLER 17 hidden 19 [w]EIGHTS 23 R + I + LED 25 ECO + M + MERCE 26 NEWM(E + XI)CO (cowmen anag.) 27 T(HUM)B 28 2 defs. 29 EFF + ICIENT (anag.)

DOWN 1 BIF + O(C)AL (rev.) 2 anag. 3 [m]IN(SERT)ION (très rev.) 4 anag. 5 NORTH(S)EA (earth no anag., &lit.) 6 CAR + OL (rev.) 7 CHER + VIL[e] 8 “inn cider” 15 anag. 16 LIFE (anag.) + TIME (rev.) 17 PAR + SNIP 18 COL + DWAR[f] 20 H(IRS + UT)E 21 hidden 22 NODO[z] + FF 24 DR(EG)S

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