Wienerschnitzel (Solution No. 3,293)

No, we weren't wearing lederhosen and
dirndls at the table.

How about another picture of Bad Reichenhall.  Since Tobi cooked wienerschnitzel last night, let’s enjoy some food!

Themework:  None that I found, though I was wondering if “Chariots of Fire” had a scene set in Constantinople.

Difficulty (by standards of this weekly puzzle): easy to moderate all the way through (that’s really hard to accomplish without having to resort to crosswordese or really obvious clues.

Political content: Were you looking for “Biden” in 4d?  I was for a little while. 

Solution and annotation to The Nation puzzle No. 3,288 below the fold.

 

Legend: "*" anagram; "~" sounds like; "<" letters reversed; "( )" letters inserted; "_" or lower case: letters deleted; "†" explicit in the clue, “^” first or last letter or letters, “{“ relocated letter or letters; “§” heteronym, “¶“ letter bank

Across

1a	CHA | RIOTS | OF F | IRE	CHA (“tea”) + RIOTS (“demonstrations”) + OFF (“crazy”) + IRE (“rage”) Good clue.  It’s got misdirection (“crazy” suggests an anagram) and a little humor (“cha-riots”)
10a	*EN (MAS)SE	*SEEN (anagram indicated by “scattered”) containing (“outside”) MAS (“mothers”)
11a	TINTY | PE	TINTY (“colorful”) + PE (“gym class”)
12a	PAR | AG | *RAPH	PAR (“norm”) + AG (“silver”) + *HARP (anagram indicated by “destroyed”)
13a	T | *HETA	T (“time”) + *HEAT (anagram indicated by “destroyed”)
14a	TANK	Double definition
16a	MOO | N(L)IGHT	MOO (“low”) + ^L^uminescence (first letter indicated by “primarily”) contained in (“found in”) NIGHT (“darkness”) Exclamation point because “low” and “luminescence” are used in both definition and wordplay.  Well-earned.
18a	LAW | *N PARTY	LAW (“police”) + *PANTRY (anagram indicated by “ransacked”)
19a	WEE | P	WEE (“small”) + P (“soft,” musical notation)
22a	P O W E R	^P^lanets ^O^r ^W^orlds ^E^mitting ^R^adiation (first letters indicated by “initially”)
26a	YAMMERS	Pun on yams (“sweet potatoes”)
27a	<NIAG< A | RA	<GAIN< (“to win,” reversal indicated by “returning”) + A (†) + _RA_ce (first two letters indicated by “halfway”)
28a	CONS | TAN | TIN *OPLE	CONS (“takes in”) + TAN (“sun-baked”) + TIN (“metal”) + *POLE (anagram indicated by “in disrepair”)

Down

2d	*HUMOR	*OH RUM (anagram indicated by “stirred up”)
3d	*RESIGN	*SINGER (anagram indicated by “transposition”)
4d	<_OP ERA_<	<delaw_AER PO_litician< (reversal indicated by “retrograde,” hidden word indicated by “presents”)
5d	*SET THEORY	*THE OYSTER (anagram indicated by “shaking”) “Shaking the oyster” would have made a great line for one of those risqué blues records from the 1930s.
6d	F(IN | *ITE)LY	FLY (“zipper”) containing (“catches”) IN (“fashionable”) + *TIE (anagram indicated by “ugly”)
7d	*IV(Y) LE | AGUE	*VILE (anagram indicated by “terribly”) + AGUE (“fever”) containing (“taking”) man^Y^ (last letter indicated by “ultimately”)
8d	*ELEGANT	*EEL + *GANT (anagram indicated by “hash”)
9d	S(EXPO)T	EXPO (“display”) contained in (“in middle of”) ST (“street”)
15d	NEW(SW O)MAN	NEWMAN (“actor”) containing (“capturing”) SW (“southwestern”) + O (“ring”)
16d	*MORTAL SIN	*ITS NORMAL (anagram indicated by “viewed in a different way”)
17d	*SPARSEST	*TRESPASS (anagram indicated by “corrected”) Another form of misdirection is to make the definition look like another indicator.
18d	*LIP <SYN<C	<NY’S< (“New York’s,” reversal indicated by “getting higher”) contained in (“in”) *CLIP (anagram indicated by “amateurish”)
20d	P(*REFA)B	PB (“lead”) containing (“around”) *FARE (anagram indicated by “unsavory”)
21d	TOM | AT | O	TOM (“turkey”) + AT (“beside”) + ^O^nion (first letter indicated by “slice of”)
24d	H(A | NO)I	HI (“Hawaii”) containing (“maintaining”) A (“answer”) + NO (†) This misdirection had me for a while: “capital” made me think of “H” for Hawaii, not “HI.”
25d	IN }ALL}	}ALL} IN (“very tired,” transposition indicated by “exchanging words”)