The Sunday Crossword No 3043, Sunday 14 Apr 2019

ACROSS
1   'Don't get so excited'? I'm astonished and illuminated! (4,2) COOL IT {COO}{LIT}
4   Break-fast time? (6) EASTER [CD]
9   DCI endlessly wedded to poetical writing: Morse is a good example (4) CODE {dCi}{ODE}
10 Insufficient funds to obtain biscuits (10) SHORTBREAD {SHORT}{BREAD}

11 Disrespectfully, the Queen's on the side of a road leading to a windswept village (6) LIZARD {LIZ}{A}{RD}
12 Miracle cure: get practically starkers, caked in dirt (5,3) SNAKE OIL {S{NAKEd}OIL}
13 Spicy snacks go with Italian lager (9) PEPPERONI {PEP}{PERONI} A snack?
15 Goitre has no appeal: it's a queasy sight (4) GORE GOitRE
16 Scammers, pests and menaces, primarily (4) SPAM Acrostic &lit
17 I'd like to sleep easy after a massage (3,6) YES PLEASE*
21 French can add butter to both sides of 'pain' (8) BASTILLE {BAST{ILL}E}
22 'Vigorously resist habits' - one who has them (6) SISTER*
24 With time to spare, foolishly romanticise a far-off place (10) MICRONESIA ROMANtICISE*
25 White lie, mostly tall story ultimately (4) LILY {LIe}{talL}{s..rY}
26 The aged are welcomed into German band (6) GARTER {G{ART}ER}
27 Rail is missing from banister (6) BANTER BANisTER

DOWN
1   Sweet treat, cold, with superior casing (4-3) CHOC-ICE {CHO{C}ICE}
2   Toothsome Ganymede, essentially Greek character (5) OMEGA [T]
3   One of us overheard where vitamin C can be found (7) INSIDER (~in cider)
5   19 martial arts are on the rise? Not entirely (6) ASTRAL [T<=]
6   Company, they say, with problem, so it's said: Freeman Hardy Willis, say (9) THREESOME {THREE}{SOME}(~ sum) Isn't is Two's company and Three's a crowd?
7   Twig taken from trees all Gipsies regularly ignored (7) REALISE {tReEs+AlL+gIpSiEs}
8   Rhyme, but not reason? (8,5) NONSENSE VERSE [CD]
14 One who you hope leaves their coat in your home (9) PLASTERER [CD]
16 Embarrassing when ghastly performer appears in chorus (7) SHAMING {S{HAM}ING}
18 Sauce added principally into Italian food? (7) PASSATA {PAS{Sa..e}{Ad..d}TA} Sauce on double duty
19 Sell, rat out: characteristic of The Sun, etc (7) STELLAR*
20 Quietly pounce and land in water (6) PLUNGE {P}{LUNGE}
23 At the outset, straining posterior muscle produces an amusing noise (5) SPLAT {St...g}{Po...r}{LAT}

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