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Puzzle No. 3361 Puzzle No. 3361

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 ” Barb”: that is one choice among terms of endearment (5) 4 Through crash, ban my foes (2,5,2) 9 What you might be doing in the apartment as malfunctioning Net breaks up a call (7) 10 Hamlet opposing sick era (7) 11 Did he know all about Eve in the “morning after” commercial? (4) 12 Gandhi’s last neutral robe is something drawing interest (10) 14 Strangely, the sting becomes more constrained (8) 16 Gladiator, possibly restricted near Mideastern country (5) 19 Long, thick hair finally upset the artist of Olympia (5) 20 Crazy antics preceding Marty’s last two symbols for holiness (8) 22 Appalling lack: Ben-Hur getting time off to eat (5,5) 25 Vagabonds after high school, gone with the wind (4) 27 Womanizer returns, ultimately unforgiven with a casual acknowledgment around outskirts of Juneau (3,4) 28 Person from Shakespeare, in love, facing tense greeting (7) 29 Schindler’s list of characters lost independent and Republican to drink in European region (9) 30 Prize found in Argo’s cargo, which was earned by the 5 that appears in each clue (5) DOWN 1 The sound of music from Bach’s pen (6) 2 Make leather, then do it again twice, with different covers coming out of Africa (9) 3 Titanic hit ice while maintaining power (4) 4 Recruits porters outside grand hotel (9) 5 Film’s standard procedure: covering the life of Emile Zola (5) 6 Everyone repeat and say, “Mrs. Miniver,” perhaps (10) 7 Seattle’s west side story is trite (5) 8 Disturbed, if gentle—like the best years of our lives (8) 13 Presidential residence in Casablanca? (5,5) 15 Angling so craftily for an event where ordinary people make their voices heard (4-5) 17 I’m able to misread Chicago, originally, as pertaining to a biochemical process (9) 18 Rocky, dim slope collapses (8) 21 What I might have to take when going my way amid stampede to Uruguay (6) 23 Patton in ‘thirty-five, capturing roughly 11 percent (5) 24 Extend a contract with actress Russo on the waterfront (5) 26 Man seen in The Godfather, Part II (4) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3360 ACROSS 1 LOCO + MOTION 6 PAG-E (rev.) 10 PAR + TNER (rev.) 11 EY(ELI)DS (dyes anag.) 12 YE + ATS (anag.) 13 anag. 14 CON + TEMP + LATE 17 & 18 SUN + DRY 19 CORN + ERST + ORE 21 anag. 24 rev. 25 REDBO (anag.) + OK 26 D(ROUGH)T 27 pun 28 A NEST + HE + TIC DOWN 1 LI(PSY)NC 2 anag. 3 [v/M]-ENUS 4 “perm taper” spoonerism 5 hidden 7 ALIT + O 8 [p]EPSI + LON[g] 9 anag. 15 ES(CARGO)T 16 ARE + AC + ODES 17 S(POT)LIGHT 18 DI(AGRA)M 20 anag. 22 TO(DA)Y 23 [s]TA[r] + KEN 24 2 defs.

Apr 28, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Puzzle No. 3360 Puzzle No. 3360

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Crazy proposal for travel (10) 6 Assistant reversing digital divide? (4) 10 Business associate sending back money for housing strike (7) 11 Yale student invested in plastic dyes—they keep out the light (7) 12 You sat awkwardly with a poet (5) 13 Where some children learn arrangement of crop holes (9) 14 Think about a swindle, with employee behind schedule (11) 17 and 18 across Miscellaneous source of heat, without liquid (6) 18 See 17 across 19 Where you could get milk or grain, in the past, with raw material (6,5) 21 In the far south, tactic ran off the rails (9) 24 Wood from a plank, turned over (5) 25 Terribly bored, sanction magazine (7) 26 Water shortage is severe within the boundaries of Detroit (7) 27 Dressing from April 30? (4) 28 It might keep you from suffering a retreat before a male jerk (10) DOWN 1 Pretend to sing along with South Korean rapper in Long Island and North Carolina (3-4) 2 Surprisingly tiny trace leads to conviction (9) 3 Lists to choose from when a planet’s face is magnified by a factor of 200 (5) 4 Academic exercise for Rev. Spooner: style hair with a candle (4,5) 5 Robes evidently concealing fat (5) 7 Judge came down against the essence of Roe (5) 8 The smallest quantity of soda, unopened, overcoming endless thirst (7) 9 Brutally scare the faculty (8) 15 Load in established staple of the slow-food movement? (8) 16 Three-digit sequences are not DC poems (4,5) 17 Herb interrupts insult to get attention (9) 18 Site of the Taj Mahal seen in poorly illuminated illustration (7) 20 Shred laciest part of some underwear (7) 22 Diminutive cover for the state’s lawyer, at present (5) 23 Naked star (a well-known doll) is not available (5) 24 Stall an assassin (5) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3359 ACROSS 1 2 defs. 4 VI + DEOT (rev.) + APE 9 hidden 10 CHO(M)P 11 [f]EELS 12 “cone and oil” 14 pun 15 KNIF (rev.) + [d]ES[k] 18 B(L)EACH 19 BUD + A PEST 22 anag. 24 hidden 26 “Thai grrr” 27 QUID + DITCH 28 H + OPEC + HE’S + T 29 rev. DOWN 1 [s]HO[t] + THÉ + AD 2 anag. 3 SO FA[r] 4 [o]VER + MOUTH 5 phonetic hidden 6 [a/O]-CCIDENTAL 7 AGO + NY 8 EM (rev.) + PRESS 13 EGOCEN(T)RIC (concierge anag.) 16 F(RE)IGHTER 17 hidden 18 BEW (rev.) + ITCH 20 TO(Y)SHOP (photos anag.) 21 OPA[l] + QUE 23 rev. 25 A + D.D.S.

Apr 22, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Puzzle No. 3359 Puzzle No. 3359

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Tolerates bad writers (5) 4 Violet kicked back with King Kong, e.g. (a movie for watching at home, once) (9) 9 Team with a specific assignment might ask for certain materials (4,5) 10 Bite a cut of lamb containing bit of mint (5) 11 Without fail, gropes some fish (4) 12 Author discussed something to hold ice-cream-and-peanut product (5,5) 14 Stray scandal concerning an opera singer? (8) 15 Stabs informant, returning contents of desk (6) 18 Get white, and ultimately pastel, in a location where some get tan (6) 19 Capital from friend ahead of a nuisance (8) 22 Wino and lapdog romping in shallow water (6,4) 24 Offensive excerpt from smug lyricist (4) 26 Big cat’s loud growl from Southeast Asia? (5) 27 Pound a long hole for a team sport (9) 28 Unmarried woman’s collection is originally hijacked by international cartel, along with the man’s shirt (4,5) 29 Secure sectors in a recession (5) DOWN 1 Impetuous person, naked, shot French tea commercial (7) 2 Evil caste running amok—hey, what are you gonna do about it? (4,2,3) 3 Piece of furniture is unfinished until now (4) 4 Done removing cap and opening wine (8) 5 Radio personality residing in Abidjan? (6) 6 In the West by chance, switching blood types at first (10) 7 Hurt back near New York (5) 8 The author is upset over iron ruler (7) 13 Self-absorbed, unreliable concierge takes time (10) 16 Combatant secures perimeter of reconnaissance ship (9) 17 Passage from Nahum? Or is that someone making a joke? (8) 18 Entrance in part of the Internet raised desire (7) 20 Children’s store retouched photos featuring yeti’s face (3,4) 21 Cut stone in Guadalajara—that is hard to see through (6) 23 Find a small dog tag turned over (3,2) 25 A dentist’s supplements (4) SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3358 ACROSS 1 pun 9 anag. 10 NEED + LED 11 “chilly” 12 anag. 13 EN(TROP)Y (yen anag., port rev.) 15 AD VERSE 17 anag. 19 ENCO (anag.) + DER (rev.) 21 SPRIN[t] + KLER ([c]lerk anag.) 23 anag. 25 not cryptic 26 H(AI)TIAN (a hint anag.) 27 pun DOWN 1 2 defs. (&lit.) 2 [s]HINDI[g] 3 S + PIRITOSO (anag.) 4 NUR (rev.) + SE + [bu]RY 5 PAN + ACE + A 6 anag. 7 SOLD(I)ERED 8 ADH (anag.) + ERE 14 THEOR (anag.) + ETIC (rev.) 16 VA + CA + NC + I.E. + S 17 AU + S + TIN 18 anag. 19 EARS HOT 20 RU(L + IN)GS 22 anag. 24 P + RICE

Apr 14, 2015 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto