Pie for breakfast (Solution No. 3,262)

I have pie for breakfast the morning after Thanksgiving, in memory of my late father in law.  We'd need to buy or make three pies if he was coming to dinner: usually apple, pumpkin, and mince.  Though he was not a large man, he could put away an amazing quantity of that pie.  Then some would go back with him to be devoured over the next few days.  It's indulgent, but not unreasonable to do once or twice a year.  So I was pleased to see two apple pies on the counter next to the coffee machine when I came in to the office this morning.  Of course I had a slice of each...

Did you work on this week's puzzle with a piece of pie and a cup of coffee at hand?  I did: here's the solution.

Difficulty (by standards of this weekly puzzle): easy to moderate–the answers fall in pretty quickly, but working out the wordplay of the long constructions is a challenge.  16d is obscure, but the component words are not.

Musical content: 13a is best known for conducting the NBC Symphony on radio and TV, but also directed La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York Philharmonic.  

Political content: none this week.

Solution and annotation below the fold

Across

1a	*FOSSIL FUE | L	*SOUFFLÉ IS (anagram indicated by “ruined”) + L^emon (first letter indicated by “bit of”)
6a	S | CAB	S (“small”) + CAB (“hack”)
10a	*ST(UMP)ER	UMP (“sports official”) contained in (“interrupting”) *REST (anagram indicated by “unfortunately”)
11a	H(AIR | C)UT	HUT (“humble dwelling”) containing (“concealing”) AIR (†) + C^onditioner (first letter indicated by “front”)
12a	*ADMI | T	*MAID (anagram indicated by “in distress”) + T (“time”)
13a	*TOSCANINI	*ACTIONS IN (anagram indicated by “medley”)
14a	DISMISSED	Visual pun: D IS MISSED from “riD”
17a	~ICING	~I SING (homophone indicated by “recited”) “I sing the body electric…” is a quote from “Leaves of Grass”
19a	F(AC)ED	FED (“government agent”) containing (“circumscribing”) AC (“type of power”)
20a	*ESOTERICA	*I.E. A CORSET (anagram indicated by “untied”)
22a	*RETI | *CULES	*RITE (anagram indicated by “strange”) + *CLUES (anagram indicated by “rewriting”) I’d never seen this definition before: I knew a reticule as the markings inside a telescope or binoculars.
25a	~SHARE	~CHER (“singer/actress” Cher Bono, homophone indicated by “in recital”)
26a	*OCEANIC	*COCAINE (anagram indicated by “crack”)
27a	O | CAR | IN | A	Desot^O (last letter indicated by “rear of”) + CAR (“automobile”) + IN (“encased”) + A (†) “Encased by” is a bit of misdirection.
28a	_SIDE_	pre_SIDE_nt (hidden word indicated by “has”)
29a	ATTENDANCE	Heteronym: AT TEN DANCE

Down

1d, 19d	FAST AND FURIOUS	FA (“note”) + STAND (“bear”) + FUR (pelt”) + IOUS (“debts”)
2d	SO | UL M | U | SIC	SO (“in order that”) ULM (“Albert Einstein’s home town”: Ulm, Switzerland) + U (“uranium”) + SIC (“really, that’s not a typo”)
3d	I(*NPU)T	IT (“the thing”) contains (“involves”) *PUN (anagram indicated by “dreadful”)
4d	F *ORETASTE	F (forte: “loud”) + *SEA OTTER (anagram indicated by “playing”)
5d	_ETHOS_	g_ET HOS_tages (hidden word indicated by “to adopt”)
7d	C | ACT I	tragic^C (last letter indicated by “ending”) + ACT I (act one: “start of play”)
8d, 21d	BAT | TIN | G AVE | RAGE	BAT (“vampire”) + TIN (“can”) + GAVE (“endowed”) + RAGE (“anger”)
9d	VI(*TAMIN) E	VIE (“compete”) containing (“swallowing”) *A MINT (anagram indicated by “well-chewed”)
15d	INDE(CE)NT	INDENT (“shift to the right”) containing (“around”) CE (“Christian Era”)
16d	*DROP SCONE	*SCROD NOPE (anagram indicated by “stewed”) I’ve never tried these: anyone have a recipe?
18d	_IMITATION	l_IMITATION (omission of L indicated by “excluding left”)
19d	See 1d
21d	See 8d
23d	*TREAD	*RATED (anagram indicated by “no good”)
24d	_LICIT_	soma_LI CIT_y (hidden word indicated by “within”)
25d	_SCALD_	fi_SCAL D_ossier (hidden word indicated by “contents”)