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Puzzle:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/puzzle20150516.pdf

Solution for previous - 20140809:
http://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2014/08/08/target-range-saturday-puzzle/tab/puzzle_solution/

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Thanks, syzzie! A treat as always. Starred: 5, 14, 17A; 1, 7, 12, 21, 28, 31D. Heck, might as well not bother starring. Love the very simple-looking but ingenious ones.

You're welcome.
My sentiments exactly, including almost every star as well.
Rather easy, though I did get stuck for a bit in the SE corner with 22, 27, 28, & 37.
One crack pulled it all together. (-;

Have done only about half. Could anyone give me a hint for 5 dn Varlet having a long time in servitude (7) First letter P, and perhaps also 1 d which has me completely foxed Drive away with a load of sound gear and rug cleaner (7) ??A??O?
On checking hairless dogs (not got that one either!), found there is one called a xoloitzcintle. Now, that's a word for Clueless or PR.

Cheers syzygy, I'm playing catch up with your previously posted WSJ still to do. Very enjoyable with quite a few belters with my favourites being 5a & 1d.

@ ros
5d varlet not as a scoundrel but a (no longer) hotel menial employee
1d load is a container indicator, rug similar to cockney
syrup
27. Over here not necessarily a dog, hair (or lack of it) and it's parting

Thank you ginge. Mystified by Cockney Syrup, but thinking on't

Hi ros, rhyming slang shortened to just the first word.

OK got it, thanks

A 27 - is not the name of a dog breed, but a characteristic
"... like a hairless dog?

The def is the first phrase, a Yiddish word, past tense.

Thank you, had no idea the word was Yiddish. Only short of 3 ordinary clued words now, all SE corner but still mystified by the box contents.
I like 32 dn. So simple.