Puzzle No. 3275

Puzzle No. 3275

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ACROSS
 1 End angst—jump wildly for spur-of-the-moment decision (4,8)
 9 Agent returning California bread for each individual (3,6)
10 Elector’s trove relocated (5)
11 Irritated by Delaware, Joe Biden makes a comeback (6)
12 Wayward cousin limiting nonsense: “Not so fast!” (8)
13 Misdirect TA: “Yard sale is off” (4,6)
15 Bird’s means of transportation (4)
17 Capital is more corrupt (4)
19 Observed from a distance, subject captivating the European Community about the French (10)
21 Dissolute lord to maintain former tennis champion (3,5)
23 In retrospect, one person embraces family rating for horror movie star (6)
25 It’s heard in stable sounds, like rejection (5)
26 Argonauts mixed bitters (9)
27 Recklessly, I risk recipes for breakfast food (4,8)
DOWN
 2 Latin American dictator is the first to wear orange, surprisingly (7)
 3 Part of a setting in ascent to conquer face of Chilean mountain (5,3)
 4 One fleeing during a game of tag? (4)
 5 Turn into particles from the moon, coming up through an opening (9)
 6 Overhangs cut the top off foliage (5)
 7 Unfortunately, it ain’t a fairy queen (7)
 8 Communists originally torment Walesa in Eastern Silesia with glazed pottery (7,5)
 9 Tree-hugging union with source concealing head of radical leftist coalition (7,5)
14 For this puzzle, 27 stop the car where a roller coaster might be found (5,4)
16 Prepares for surgery (brush first, eat later) (6,2)
18 Senate majority leader cut short stupid uprising? That’s not so clear (7)
20 Vegetables for Mussolini? (7)
22 Minnesota DH occasionally covers for these circumstances (2,3)
24 Fruit is oddly un-Gallic (4)
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3274
ACROSS 1 [c]LOCK 3 DEA + D(LYS)INS (sly anag.) 10 MADE + IRA 11 CLUB + CA + R 12 SHEIK(H)DOM (hid smoke anag.) 13 HO(RD)E 14 MAH(LE)R (harm anag.) 16 WE(IRDE)ST (ride anag.) 18 [n]orth pole anag. 19 “shoots” 22 hidden 23 B + OATSWAIN (was into a anag.) 25 BAT(GI)R + L (brat anag.) 26 H + ARMFUL 27 anag. 28 EXI[s]T
DOWN 1 LUMPSU + M (plus um anag.) 2 CA + DRE[ams] 4 E LANDS 5 DEC[k] + EMBER 6 YOU + THOR(CHEST)RA 7 IN + CORRECT (concert “anag.”) 8 anag. 9 PICK + LED + HER + RING 15 HERO + DOT + US 17 G + LOBULAR (our ball anag.) 18 P + ARABLE 20 S AND L + OT 21 N(AS)H + U[s]A (& lit.) 24 A(FF)IX

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