Puzzle No. 3238

Puzzle No. 3238

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ACROSS
 1 Hopeless quest: grabbing operagoers’ top hats (6)
 4 Can she woo? Go crazy (8)
10 Tests the mornings of yesteryear? (5)
11 Meddlesome, leaderless mob corrupted virtues (9)
12 I printed another way: in bold (8)
13 Fire on retreating barge ultimately breaks wind (6)
14 Marked, like hot coffee? (7)
16 Artists’ underwear (7)
17 Part of a plant in New York securing faulty crate (7)
19 Painter’s ride in vehicle with greenish exterior (3,4)
21 Up a tree as part of an improvised performance (2,1,3)
22 Bygone memory: the first smoked meat (8)
25 Roster of short-term workers open to being seduced (9)
26 Clumsy person’s kindergarten jump (5)
27 Humanitarian organization breaking records (Guinness’s latest) (3,5)
28 Listen to a piece of vocal music, for example? OK (6)
 
DOWN
 1 O’Toole-Hepburn movie in which pride comes after a fall? (3,4,2,6)
 2 Tauter “Dancing Queen” is foremost for ABBA, e.g. (7)
 3 Getting rid of doctor, men sued to get result (5)
 5 Chooses flying spot (4)
 6 Musical TV show is so extremely fashionable (4,5)
 7 Somber expert making a disapproving face (7)
 8 Breaded veal entree wins zilch in contention (6,9)
 9 Actress and knight love to rise in time for start of operations (5,3)
15 Eccentric includes air conditioning in lease (9)
16 Veered from detailed uprising, changing 50 to 5 (8)
18 Asserted decimal is misaligned (7)
20 Less clear requisite to pop a query (7)
23 It is like Kyoto, but different! (5)
24 White malarkey is on the wane (4)
 
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3237
ACROSS 1 anag. 5 [r]USES 10 FIRSTL + I.E. + U + TENANT (flirts anag.) 11 YET + I 12 anag. 14 [c]O[mmand] 17 THIRD D(EGRE[t])E BURN (Thunderbird anag.) 20 PRO-VINCI + AL[l] 23 anag. 26 anag. 27 hidden 28 PLA(YMA)TE (Amy rev.)
DOWN 1 HER + ETIC (cite rev.) 2 “wrote” 3 C(RIT(ICI)Z)E 4 hidden 6 ANIMAT[e]S (rev.) 7 SE[a]TTLE + DIN 8 [j]IFFY 9 & 24 HEAT + HENS 13 rev. 14 SETUPS + HOP 15 anag. 16 M + EEK 18 FE + MALE 19 letter bank 21 IN + CA 22 CAME + L 25 A + QUA

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