TETRA BLOCK
The image represents a 7 x 7 x 7 cube with a standard cryptic fill in three directions and 2 x 2 x 2 cubes removed from four of the corners. In the solving diagram at the bottom of this page, the numbered slices are standard Across and Down grids. Through answers are entered with one letter in each slice, working down the page. Three answers are capitalized; one is not MW.
ACROSS
| 1 | Teacher paddled one (5) |
| 4 | Catch club jazzman's mimic (7) |
| 8 | Attacker excited tremors (7) |
| 12 | Almost loses head before allotted time (5) |
| 15 | Wreck of Hesperus does not have run in old city (7) |
| 19 | WASP, for example, is intimate in morning (7) |
| 20 | In rush, all others get herb (7) |
| 21 | Lost respect for authority (7) |
| 22 | Fluster disturbed calm (7) |
| 26 | In type of leather I may be steadfast (7) |
| 27 | Swift, for one mixed in riots (7) |
| 28 | Muscles curve, bearing first of colorful inflammation (7) |
| 29 | Broadcast made a mistake out loud (5) |
| 32 | Clear-cut act holds back plague (7) |
| 33 | Onlookers listened to springs in England (7) |
| 34 | Import Tasmania's premier variety of strong ale (5) [NI3 usage] |
DOWN
| 1 | Hits Buddy's nemesis? (5) |
| 2 | Sanction administration's head roaming after pages (7) |
| 3 | Immigrant is confused on crime (7) [NI3+] |
| 7 | Try without heart to adopt skill of a streetwalker (5) |
| 15 | "Pleases" smoothed passages (7) |
| 16 | Grass present includes bag (7) |
| 17 | Using lethal part of excited atomic state (7) |
| 18 | Pack animal in sound Civil War fort (7) |
| 22 | Adjust caliper to make reproduction (7) |
| 23 | Rest on most of work shirt rolled up to view TV shows (7) |
| 24 | Elastic marks, I'll say (7) |
| 25 | T. S. Eliot made new literary device (7) |
| 29 | A Bronx High School of Science student sounded irritated? (7) |
| 30 | Last fragment of George Washington seen in torn bit of money (7, two words) |
| 31 | Pranks executed on operating system (5) |
| 32 | Follow mother's doctrine (5) |
THROUGH
| 1 | Drive ox (5) |
| 2 | Encephalograph, as I age, to reveal result of brain damage (7) |
| 3 | Battering of rains to such extent (7) |
| 4 | Hot in outrageously performed bit (7) |
| 5 | Excessively prudish joke about "lovely" meter maid (7) |
| 6 | Across Rubicon, ten days' struggle (7) |
| 7 | Enticed, Turner goes after short-term employee (7) |
| 8 | Assigns rehabilitation for dissing (7) |
| 9 | Dog leaves scientists' study speaking (7) |
| 10 | Feeling of ill-being after gender reassignment of head of Normandy town (7) |
| 11 | Repaired toaster revolves (7) |
| 12 | Rising from water redeems anew (7) |
| 13 | Sailor embraces designer back in refuge (7) |
| 14 | Tree stripped bare reveals battlefield (5) |
| 18 | Without half its liberals, city turns to hodgepodge (5) |
| 21 | Callas upset after loss of large opera house (5) |
not MW = not in Merriam-Webster dictionaries
NI3 usage = usage in Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary
NI3+ = word appears in NI3 marked as dialect, slang, archaic, or the like
SOLVING DIAGRAM . . . also available on a separate page
Puzzle by Will Johnston. Originally published in The Enigma, official publication of the National Puzzlers' League, June 1998, pages 20-21. Reprinted by permission.