ACROSS&DOWNH>1.2........*STURGEONS.CREATORU.P.R.R.T.H.S.U.ECLOSINGTIME.TERRAR.N.L.A.N.R.E.B.COCTAL.NIGHT.REICHS.O...........N..EMPLOYS.PARABLE......I.A.O.E.Y........LANDSLIDE........E.T.E.N.A......TARMACS.STRIPED..A...........R.EFACET.ALARM.HOOTSR.T.A.D.L.O.O.T.IEWING.ZOOSTATIONSE.L.U.E.O.E.E.N.TSTEPPES.FATALISTS---------.--------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------------.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.-----.------.-...........-..-------.-------......-.-.-.-.-........---------........-.-.-.-.-......-------.-------..-...........-.------.-----.------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.------.------------.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.--------.---------On a more melodious note... Mike Develin 2000-2001; see notepad for solutionDoctors having tea with fish (9)Sure companies mingled with sweetness (7)At the apex, straddling children's toy? (2,2,3)Switched girl with lost hibachi (5)Lung pipe, for one (5)Put the kibosh on police leader (5)Be bad, or cater to god? (7)Retch violently on rock (5)Grow rotten without the first chemical compound (5)Tuber in crazy spinning wheel (7)Get to lecture, missing only opening (5)Once 100, feeling life slip away - last call for alcohol (7,4)Later, rationalize holding hostage earth (5)Based on eighth part of life: "Following Tattered Coat" (5)Thing made in the dark! (5)Regarding me, German established regime (5)Uses equipment to rewrite sly poem (7)Present-day titan swimming through Loire (5)He delivers presents to Barbara and Ana, among others (5)Illustrative story is making the grade? (7)Asks models (5)Gathers in sound of precipitation (5)Spontaneous second-rate trip around the sun (2,3)Mac's song caused avalanche (9)Plane landing on sailor buddies (7)Broken lattice can be touched (7)Standard hideout for mature variety of bass (7)Charged particles are weights for hire? (7)Worshippers take small stops (7)A foot stuck around the side (5)Lets go of audio drawing (5)Increase price of score from 1/3? (3,2)Concern about Bundy accessory? (5)Woodworking tools cause confused dazes (5)Only a backwards simpleton would be so nonchalant (5)Famous offensive against Missouri used old musical form (5)Bird appeals to clumsy soothsayer's better half (5)Torrid Chicago train found somewhere to chill out (5)Center takes early flier (5)Animal exhibits are just two stops down the line (3,8)We hear he walks over plateaus (7)Bloated "Who's Hot" celebs became hopeless (9) 1A. STURGEONS [T inside SURGEONS] 6A. CREATOR [anag. OR CATER] 10A. CLOSING TIME [C+LOSING TIME] 11A. TERRA [laTER RAtionalize] 12A. OCTAL [L after anag. COAT] 13A. NIGHT [anag. THING &lit.] 14A. REICH [RE + ICH] 15A. EMPLOYS [anag. SLY POEM] 18A. PARABLE [punny double-def] 21A. LANDSLIDE [double-def] 22A. TARMACS [TAR + MACS] 23A. STRIPED [RIPE inside STD] 26A. FACET [ACE inside FT] 28A. ALARM [punny double-def] 31A. HOOTS [anag. SOOTH] 32A. EWING [E+WING] 33A. ZOO STATIONS [double-def] 34A. STEPPES [hom. STEPS] 35A. FATALISTS [FAT + A-LISTS] 1D. SUCROSE [mingled SURE, COS] 2D. UP ON TOP [punny double-def] 3D. GRILL [anag. GIRL + L] 4D. ORGAN [double-def] 5D. STING [double-def] 6D. CHERT [anag. RETCH] 7D. ESTER [FESTER - F] 8D. TURBINE [anag. TUBER IN] 9D. REACH [PREACH - P] 16D. OILER [anag. LOIRE] 17D. SANTA [double-def] 18D. POSES [double-def] 19D. REINS [hom. RAINS] 20D. BY EAR [B + YEAR] 22D. TACTILE [anag. LATTICE] 24D. PROTONS [PRO