Ice show (Solution No. 3,365)

The solution and annotation to The Nation puzzle no. 3,365 is below the fold.

Are you in the Philadelphia area?
A little put off by the sudden onset of warm weather?
Looking for something fun on a Saturday night?

Come see Bangle and her friends perform in the annual skating show at the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society(*), titled Fairy Tales and Fables. Along with Bangle, the cast includes some national medalist ice dance couples and the junior national champion of India. Perhaps some of them might be skating in the Olympics in 2018 or 2022.

The show will be this Saturday, June 6, at the Skating Club in Ardmore, on the Main Line.  E-mail me at thenationcryptic@gmail.com for ticket information

*--yes, that’s their real name: going back to when the club was located on the Schuylkill River and part of the club’s mission was to rescue people who fell through the ice.

Link to puzzle:  http://www.thenation.com/article/208233/puzzle-no-3365

Degree of difficulty (by standards of this weekly puzzle): hard

Agility factor:  low

Political content: 3d

Musical content: 23d

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, “‡” Spoonerism

Across

1a	AD VAN CEMENT	AD (“spot”) + VAN (“vehicle”) + CEMENT (“concrete”)
9a	*ACTIN G OUT	*ICANT (anagram indicated by “burst”) + GOUT (“inflammation”)
10a	T ROLL	^T^aco (first letter indicated by “umber 1”) + ROLL (“bun”)
11a	*TERRA COTTA	*ACTOR TREAT (anagram indicated by “smashed”)
12a	C(H)AT	CAT (“hipster”) containing (“taking”) H (“heroin”)
13a	RU(SKI)N	SKI (“to go downhill”) contained in (“in”) RUN (“race”) John Ruskin was an 19th century art critic best known for the Modern Painters books.
14a	FEE BLEST	FEE (“charge”) + BLESSED (“consecrated”)
18a	LI(GAME)NT	GAME (“wild animals”) contained in (“covered with”) LINT (“fuzz”)
20a	<O(N ED)GE<	<EGO (“I”) containing (“outside”) DEN (“lair”)<, reversal of the whole thing indicated by “returned”
23a	*AUNT	*TUNA (anagram indicated by “salad”) Definition cross-references 22d (COUSIN)
24a	CH(RON)ICLE D	CHICLE (“gum”) containing (“coating”) RON (“Howard”) + ^D^ean (first letter indicated by “initially”)
26a	TU TEE	TEE (“peg”) following (“follows”) TU (“you around Monaco” [French is spoken in Monaco])
27a	RES_ PONDER	RES_t_ (omission of last letter indicated by “cut short”) + PONDER (“think”)
28a	*CAFFEINATED	*FACE DEFIANT (anagram indicated by “after an attack”)

Down

1d	AN*TAR(E)S	AN (“one”) + *STAR (anagram indicated by “variable”) containing (“full of”) E (“energy”
2d	VA N(DALIS)M	DALIS (“Salvador’s”) contained in (“in”) VA (“Virginia”) + NM (“New Mexico)
3d	*NEO CON	*ONE (anagram indicated by “absurd”) + CON (“argument against”)
4d	*EN(TITI)ES	*SEEN (anagram indicated by “flying”) containing (“around”) TITI (“South American monkey”)
5d	~EATS	~hEATS (homophone with H omitted indicated by “Cockney”)
6d	*TROCHEE	*TO CHEER (anagram indicated by “wildly”)
7d	PAST ORAL	PAST (“onetime”) + ORAL (“test”)
8d	S(L)IT	SIT (“pose”) containing (“involves”) L (“lake”)
15d	*BANDICOOT	*OBTAIN COD (anagram indicated by “evolving”)
16d	THE(ODOR)E	ODOR (“smell”) contained in (“once inhaled”) THEE (“you”)
17d	IN CH_ARGE	INCH (“part of a foot”) + _l_ARGE (“big,” omission of L (“a pound”) indicated by “losing”)
19d	GENE TIC	GENE (“Kelly”) + TIC (“a jerk”)
21d	DELUDED	Pun. (de-luded: without Quaaludes)
22d	CO(US)IN	COIN (“money”) containing (“enthralls”) US (“American”)
23d	A L T O	^A^ida ^L^a ^T^raviata ^O^tello (initials indicated by “leads”)
25d	<_SELF<	<FLES_h_< (“meat,” omission of last letter indicated by “mostly,” reversal indicated by “throwing up”) Deceptively hard for a four.