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Gerbil Maze

< Kingdom of Wisdom
Solution

ACROSS

  • Hates to grab hors d’oeuvres from the middle (6)
  • Savvy, even, is the fifth month on the calendar (2)
  • Ripping out depraved visual before broadcasting (8)
  • Wonder about most of Hawaiian city for some time (6)
  • Certain Caribbean head concealing real dirt for smearing? (8)
  • Fare at supper, essentially! (4)
  • Build a vault (empty) by tomb with the left half demolished - that hurts (5)
  • Next, Lear going insane in public (8)
  • Kind of dairy product without a bit of meat (3)
  • Mohammed's religion, outside of LA, has a religious belief (3)
  • Mathy puzzles—knock out about a thousand, picking up prominently unanimous raves (6)
  • Goodness, it makes the sea squalid (2)
  • Scorch the skin off of monstrous creature (3)
  • Uncontrolled spree is gory, gross (4)
  • Suggest scouting around; French lady is with diver, at the surface (9)
  • Eighty-six or ninety-nine, but not even sappy (3)
  • Lead actor with body art to get an initial salary (5 2)
  • Avenger stealing gold from novelist (4)
  • Weapon found in recalled Isuzu after US export (3)
  • University of Tennessee player gets fancy looking back without the irrational bit (3)
  • Hey! Note on a party invite excludes bed and breakfast (2)
  • ...and 14 black boxes, one of which is given

DOWN

  • A minor triad pilot that's outstanding (3)
  • Way of doing things after morning rounds (4)
  • Heartless American is one (2)
  • Carriage return, typo interfered with codebreaking (6)
  • Note beehive, say (2)
  • "Eely Fish": jazz piece flops (3)
  • Have cast you initially as goon? (5)
  • Base quidditch on going back outside (2)
  • Slick! Sounds like I understand (3)
  • President Eisenhower locked up in Riker's (3)
  • Iodine applied to reactive molecule (3)
  • In France, the first lady entered dam (5)
  • Branch's holding pattern is cut short (4)
  • Behold bloody corpse left behind (2)
  • Vegetarian's pod is from capsized boat with life preserver? (4)
  • Box had its top pop off, revealing puller (2)
  • Some pips for Sherlock Holmes, perhaps (2)
  • Ray to stake out (5)
  • Member of mining consortium is wily about deep cover being blown (6)
  • Military vehicle to repeatedly strike and strike out (4)
  • Cast most of the words (5)
  • Dump, take down one working at home (3)
  • High official, namely, one presented before the Queen (6)
  • At #1, Young MC and a Village People song (4)
  • ...and 17 black boxes