Puzzle No. 3226

Puzzle No. 3226

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ACROSS
 1 Presbyterians converted pop star (7,6)
 9 Nearly remember one that’s tagged within concert (7)
10 Live inside of obese eccentric (7)
11 Choice of Ford models with a large vessel (5)
12 Episcopal stirred a soft drink (5-4)
13 Came down hard and saluted (6)
14 Drifting agnostic goes to hell (8)
17 Satanism defiled part of a log (8)
19 Nook with a flame limiting start of conflagration (6)
22 It might come from a pig: kind of spray on individual’s face (9)
24 One charmer in a picture (5)
26 Neoconservative paragon incorporating 1970s self-help movement’s overall pattern (7)
27 For example, Hemingway’s faction hijacking stripped Buick (7)
28 Allowance is imminent between Sunday and Monday, at one day’s close (8,5)
DOWN
 1 Yogi’s degree concealing blunder (5)
 2 Incorporated in sour, irrational attack (9)
 3 Sean cut crumbling fruitcake (7)
 4 Named bicycle “Pterodactyl’s Guts” (6)
 5 Ring up Winnie to express impatience (4-4)
 6 Air Force exhibitions for business (7)
 7 I make notes, perhaps! (5)
 8 Last bit of fuel caught in foreign throttle (8)
13 Internet location’s tribute involving record (4,4)
15 Quarantine lunatic into a silo (9)
16 Mixed morass or tedious excerpt (8)
18 Repeat something on a list, nearly at speed (7)
20 Sort of Islamic philosophy of church-state separation (7)
21 Makes a pass at Shinto stranger (4,2)
23 Sends assignments (5)
25 Sorrowful poem set amid the old uprising (5)
ACROSS 1 LACE + RATIONS
9 ASSE[n]T 10 CLASS + MATE
11 2 defs. 12 FE + MALE
14 F(ACSIM)ILES (scam I anag.)
16 F[our] + IV + E (&lit.) 18 [i]S + AN E 19 LE + F(TWINGE)R 22 PAT + RON 23 P + R(E)AMBLE 26 ELUC + I + DATE (clue anag.) 27 ID + I(O)M 28 anag., &lit.

DOWN 1 “list” 2 CAT-HOLIC
3 RECON + SIDE + R 4 anag.
5 [j]OUSTER 6 anag. 7 [p/L]AYOFF
8 2 defs. 13 YES + T(E)RY + EAR
15 CONS + TRUES 17 TI + RAM + I + SU (rev.) 18 SUP(P)ER 20 “roomy” 21 NO VICE 24 B(RIB)E 25 T(AX)I

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