Help Wanted Your overburdened puzzlemakers are seeking assistance and have placed a "Help Wanted" message in this puzzle's grid. Naturally, the message has been cryptically rendered to screen for qualified applicants. Because of the resulting alterations to certain entries, answer lengths have been withheld. Answers include eight capitalized words. The instructions above are for this month's puzzle only. See a complete introduction to clue-solving. See the solution to last month's Puzzler. Across
1.Encrypted the ad, keeping center separate 5.South American greeting bar fare? 9.Protect novel version of a utensil 12.Feeble-minded scoundrel holding box 13.Writer on either side of Charly producer 14.Playwright's suggestion after the premiere 15.Agents lifting units 16.Hauntingly beautiful English picked up by abandoned child 21.Buttinsky's broken promise 23.True to a listener's tradition 24.Drama about a patriarch 26.Be fascinated by noise engulfing hockey arena (two words) 28.Poet turned in the direction of actress 29.Reformulation of lens-care disinfectant, perhaps 30.Clobber heavyweight 31.Muslim doctrine is held by carpenter's helper Down
1.Lower World Cup record 2.Terminate more masculine mammal 3.Grand gold rush 4.Wayward heirs share bead shops 5.Featured performer sings "Westbound" 6.Crumb in opening of soft drink 7.Floated vandal $1,000 8.Greek character penetrating in gracious, artless role 10.Palm, perhaps, inserted in sort of pocket carelessly 11.Internet marketers of technetium in ruins 15.In audition, check flame's colorful display 17.Free ring set in favorite gem 18.Fixes pot payments, accepting two notes 19.Opera taking place among northern animals 20.Gaining interest, has kids spinning bright tops 22.Temporarily leave a jacket 25.A hot new word 26.Marketer of fruit parcel 27.Not one room is standard
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