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Across
| 6 | | * I left Lydia a mess, to become a
proper woman (4) |
| 8 | | * Alive surrounds endlessly well
read, like "beautiful bastard
boy" (12) |
| 9 | | * "S and M" contains
something gritty (4) |
| 10 | | * Sirius and Betelgeuse hit the
jackpot! Who do they thank (that
they're not as smart as they'd
like to think they are)? (10) |
| 11 | | New York time zone holds freight:
snails (8) |
| 13 | | North doric crumbles, becomes
Scandinavian (6) |
| 16 | | * (With 28-Across) 1st line of 1st
track, with furniture discussing
two holes in the ground (4,4,4,3,7,5) |
| 20 | | NASA to break up piano piece (6) |
| 23 | | Unusually edgy, if in educating (8) |
| 26 | | * Place you can let down your
hair...and sing with the quartet (10) |
| 27 | | * Digging inside "everything
from this point on is real" (4) |
| 28 | | * (See 16-Across) |
| 29 | | * Iran goes ballistic; I thought
all of it would never stop (4) |
Down
| 1 | | Alabama and Washington: outside of
"yes" forever (6) |
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| 2 | | Chewed up card in canary's beak: tweet! (8) |
| 3 | | Get JAL flustered; it might keep
you up at night (3,3) |
| 4 | | Reportedly tap after Farrah, but
before Majors (6) |
| 5 | | Upside-down nail surrounded by
Tripoli resident (6) |
| 6 | | For example, a correspondence (6) |
| 7 | | Draw oddly; tuna, e.g., is kind of
small (8) |
| 12 | | On fifty, why alone? (4) |
| 14 | | Sounds like we give approval in
Paris (3) |
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| 15 | | Pondered headless and secondhand (4) |
| 17 | | "I" disease? (8) |
| 18 | | Western alien is drenched (3) |
| 19 | | Stallone film is bright and shiny (8) |
| 21 | | Reddish brown gold combust (6) |
| 22 | | Chad is here; is reorganized CIA
far? (6) |
| 23 | | North, in principle, becomes
cultural (6) |
| 24 | | Attack as false: inside I'm pug-nosed (6) |
| 25 | | Confused twit, in nincompoop (6) |
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