Puzzle No. 3273

Puzzle No. 3273

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ACROSS
 1 Act of giving new vigor to accelerate the translation into a Romance language? (14)
10 Plays music idly, upsetting old ones (7)
11 Opposite a Roman general, a Roman numeral (7)
12 Little men exclaimed, “I say, brother—you’re telling a fib!” (9)
13 Jumped with broken plate (5)
14 Express apology for garment (4)
15 Trying to return thanks: seductive (10)
18 Insecure before the onset of tooth decay? (10)
21 Sports league will not be allowing starters (4)
24 Cure apnea for a song (5)
26 River tree confused dog (9)
27 Guest of the first organized event featuring me as subject (7)
28 I’m American, having internalized animal energy (7)
29 Sarge is changing course (9,5)
DOWN
 2 Come apart over Cunningham’s online business (1-8)
 3 Lives on the tip of Lanai and Oahu, for instance (6)
 4 Strike a sailor in the ear (7)
 5 Invent one devious enigma (7)
 6 Mammal and insect slip away together (8)
 7 Ancient locality is part of region, I assume (5)
 8 Form of ID doorkeeper brought up (4,3)
 9 Creeps cut the head off birds (6)
16 Eggs go bad when flipped under hotel pioneer (9)
17 Attractive Orlando team surrounding goal (8)
18 Pop-Tarts: they might be used in drug manufacture (7)
19 Redesign 14 with Yale student and Middle East native (7)
20 Releasing agreement with inventor’s initial at the end? No good (7)
22 A hybrid alternative to down (6)
23 Weakling with large ecstasy habit, in part (6)
25 Concluding words in outspoken voice (5)
 
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3272
ACROSS 1 ABSO(LUTE)LY (LA boys anag.) 6 hidden 10 DOG + MA  11 anag. 12 CERTAINL + Y (clarinet anag.) 13 hidden 14 2 defs. 16 anag.  19 ORP(HAN)A(G)E (opera anag.)  21 rev. hidden 23 DRE + AM 24 O + KEY + DO + KEY 26 DISC + RED + IT 27 A + TRIA[l] 28 AID + A 29 anag.
DOWN 1 AB + DUCT 2 rev.  3 LE(AKA + G)E 4 TAR(ANT)UL + A (ultra anag., &lit.) 5 LO + AMY 7 LA TE(CO)MER (rev.) 8 O + FCOURSE (refocus anag.) 9 [s]TIFFIN[g] 15 2 defs. 17 EL + EM + EN + TAL[k] 18 GOO + DID + E[xtr]A 20 AD + MIRE  21 dream is anag. 22 BY + PASS (spas anag.) 24 alternate letters 25 KAR[t]MA (rev.)

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