Puzzle No. 3457

Puzzle No. 3457

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ACROSS

 1 Catches sight of sandwich back where some commuters sit (3,5)

 5 Greedy person captivated by lush source of drink (6)

10 It is dangerously about! (1-4)

11 It’s a cable, tangled in a body of water (6,3)

12 Movie actress’s sponsor keeping unusually brawny Jamaican believer inside (7,8)

14 Editor breaks cleaning implements and French furniture collection (7,3)

17 See 19

19 and 17 Storage for each one-piece garment (6)

21 Chomp on outside of unsatisfactory coins in Tehran or the Taj Mahal, for example (6,4)

25 Bishop to say “Darn it” and suppress vegetable (9,6)

28 Rocks around most of the aromatic compound (4,5)

30 “Goodbye!” (I rejected pop on both sides) (5)

31 Often dingy setting for finale (6)

32 After one minor objection, I additionally cut short BS in seven Across entries (8)

DOWN

 1 Bring up tulip, perhaps, to claim third of garden promotion (5)

 2 Cleanse George’s exterior affliction (7)

 3 Holiday connected to god of sun and fish (5)

 4 Two pieces of pork with largely flavorless orange pepper (7)

 6 and 29 Toxic substance in Hawaiian food? Boy! (6)

 7 Enhance bursts of wind once temperature drops? You betcha! (5,2)

 8 Radar systems, for instance, in Scar Trek (misspelled) (8)

 9 Melania Trump, in brief, is a feminine flower (6)

13Rolling Stone memos (5)

15 Jewish teacher runs backward and forward to live (5)

16 Leading medical-research invention! (3)

18 Lowly worker has an infant (endlessly likely) (8)

20 Altered and overturned experimental fact involving space alien (7)

22 Arnold: deranged former governor of California (6)

23 Craftsperson overthrowing 24 (7)

24 Sinatra partying with empress (7)

26 Measure most of crystal (5)

27 Things used for fastening end of leash on snakes (5)

29 See 6

 

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3456

ACROSS 1 anag. 10 AP + P + RISING
11 CL + OWN 12 2 defs.
13 S(CRIP + T)URE 14 2 defs.
15 F(R)IENDS + HIP
19 CA + R(GOP)ANTS 21 2 defs.
24 ENV(ELOP)ES (Pole rev., seven anag.)
26 [t]URBAN 27 GRE-[at/TA]
28 ANN(OUNCE)S
29 SAT + IS + FACTION

DOWN 2 NEP (rev.) + TUNE 3 rev. hidden
4 SW + IS + S 5 SU(GARB + E)ET
6 ESCA (anag.) + P(AD)E 7 TO(OM)UCH
8 NARCO (anag.) + TIC 9 final letters
16 REAP + PEARS 17 anag. 18 anag.
20 REV(I + EW)S (we + I rev.) 22 TOBAC (rev.) + CO 23 A + U + GUST 24 alternate letters 25 initial letters (&lit.)

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