JOSHUA KOSMAN AND HENRI PICCIOTTO
Puzzle No. 3527
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3526ACROSS1 Invest a bit of money in trade for wetland (5)
4 Prize in the direction of Harding? (4,5)
9 Conditions color political reporter (1,1,5)
10 Turtle missing quiet landscape (7)
11 clue in is It messed sure this up (4,5)
12 Jobs ultimately provide checks in a recession (5)
13 DeLillo pursues commercial extra (3-2)
14 “Be there now!” is the inversion of a small cliché? (8)
17 It cuts vegetable with speed (8)
19 Apple turnover for a guy with a famous razor? (5)
22 Review quote about Allah’s last set of moral principles (5)
24 Corrupt individual protects leader of Thessaloníki with
$1,000 (2,3,4)
26 On reflection, bail on nachos, eating dessert (7)
27 Rejoiced in time amid retro, sumptuous surroundings...
(7)
28 ...near breakup of conspicuous two-day trip (9)
29 Animal gusto died (5)
DOWN
1 Work one million into promise for beach attire (8)
2 Confident fool, terribly rude (7)
3 Articulate expert overseeing novice, at first a
lightweight (9)
4 Initially, trombone and bassoon, e.g., put in a corner (5)
5 Mass meeting supports tuna salad, of course (9)
6 Measures those in pain, it’s said (5)
7 In the morning, a true catastrophe for dilettante (7)
8 “Jeopardy!” ranged all over the place (6)
14 Customization of rear gasket (9)
15 Imperfectly reproduce an operation (9)
16 Asner and McMahon holding Sheeran south of
Manitoba within a military unit (8)
18 Improve final probability when Washington is cut out (7)
20 Spooner’s martial art: making a drink (4,3)
21 Mutant clover that gets attached (6)
23 Sing beginning and end of cover, with nothing on (5)
25 Council site with start of temporary lease (5)ACROSS 1 DUB + A + I 4 TO(OK + PIT)Y
9 anag. 10 hidden 11 TAR + GET +
PR(ACT)ICE 14 T[h]E + AMP + LAYER
17 TI(TOP + UENT)E (tune anag.)
19 I + DOL (anag.) 22 TRA + DEPA + PER
rev. 25 DUE + T.S. 26 TI TLEP (rev.) +
AGE 28 TE(APART)Y (yet rev.)
29 theme revealer
DOWN 1 initial letters 2 anag. 3 IMP +
UGN (anag.) 4A & 13 TEL + AVIV (rev.)
5 [h]OTTER 6 anag. 7 TERR(IF)Y
8 CERE(BR)AL 12 T-HERE 13 anag.
15 MATTE[l] 16 S(PEED)SUP (rev.)
18 TRAP + “ease” 20 DU + CHAMP
21 A + BLEST 23 [m]ASTER 24 JET + E
27 alternate letters123~45678
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