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ACROSS

1 Fey on the outside, swapping last two elements of modest fairy tale (10)

6 Piece of paper hanging from The Nation (4)

10 90 found in mistakenly drained data storage device (5,4)

11 King with no master (5)

12 Primarily cached on a ship! (5)

13 Funnyman is elder comic around here (in Montreal) (4,4)

15 For example, Kuwaiti doctor holding passport at shelter toward the back (6,7)

17 About the 15th of the month, tolls and fare for good places to watch from (8,5)

21 Numbers in parentheses are originally art deco, reimagined (4,4)

23 Mathematician and Olympian train together (5)

26 Gray drink, by the sound of it (5)

27 Bomb shattered toy, I'll bet (6,3)

28 Pipsqueak to be a candidate ahead of time (4)

29 Strange offering at retro party: something to snack on while solving this puzzle? (6,4)

DOWN

1 Quiver beginning to tempt enchantress (6)

2 Cut the top off, divide below (5)

3 Court case comes first over part of damaged tree (7)

4 Lane rebuilt, yielding incline (4)

5 Famous activist's lowest point, we hear (5)

7 Speech in support of that man's ceremonial outfit, in part (9)

8 Manure one stirred in prison (7)

9 Movies with loud musical flourishes (6)

14Argued page was in front (4)

15German writer, not quite a jackass or dummy (9)

16Penetrating ideas—you like this clue, perhaps? (4)

17Frantic alert for leaderless agent (7)

18Like some cows: frightened after a minor change (6)

19Heading west through Guadalajara, lug nachos with corners (7)

20Inexplicably, delays amused a lot (6)

22Announced a food store in a big city (5)

24Guitar note upset planet (5)

25Picking up handguns is just for men (4)

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE NO. 3279

ACROSS 1 2 defs. 5 2 defs. 
9 COURTE + SANS (cute or anag.) 
10 "rue" 11 anag. 12 STAR + TOUT 13 BACK[s]LASH 15 END + EAR 17 A + GATES 19 REST + RAIN 21 PI + S + SARRO (roars anag.) 23 TAIL + OR     p 2 defs. 
25 NEAP + OLITAN (Latino anag.) 
26 CRE[w] + SCENT 27 HUG + EST 

DOWN 2 "boo meringue" 3 E + ARM + ARK 4 T + WEED 5 READSTHE + RIO TACT (e-threads anag.) 6 CAST 
A NET + S 7 B(E)RAT + E[nglan]D 
8 hidden 14 anag. 16 anag. 
18 T + ISSUE + S 20 RAISIN + G 
22 hidden 23 TROT + H