No 12736, Saturday 21 Sep 2019, Neyartha

Plenty of stuff to eat & drink today

Across

1. Smirking revolutionary ingesting a small amount of jellied candies (8) GUMDROPS {SMUG<=} around {DROP}
5. In America, vortices make one play boisterously (6) CAVORT (T)
9. Careens off-course to capture the performing orator's vocal quality (9) RESONANCE {CAREENS*} around {ON}
11. A chilly way to get suspended? (2,3) ON ICE (CD)
12. Asian with a pleated sari in front of a priest (7) ISRAELI {SARI*}{ELI}
14. Note about the associate sent back by the royal entourage (7) RETINUE {R{UNITE<=}E}
15. Brief congregational disturbance after the removal of a good senior citizen (12) OCTOGENARIAN {CONgREGATIONAl*}
17. Doctor annoys chorus with a description of clocks having no similarities in phase or frequency (12) ASYNCHRONOUS {ANNOYS+CHORUS*}
20. Oak Wani chopped up in a Japanese island (7)  OKINAWA {OAK+WANI*}
22. Systematic study involves putting one at the wrong place with the beautiful Oriental (7) SCIENCE {SC{+I}EN{-i}C}{E}
23. Note included with the cut fruit from the east for the Greek storyteller (5) AESOP {PEAr<=} around {SO}
24. Factory providing poor pay makes stopwatches out of Connecticut (9) SWEATSHOP {STOPWAtcHES*}
26. Lovable arrangement by the retiring sailor with an old UK school qualification (1,5) O LEVEL {LOVabLE*} Second E from?
27. Animal with flower returned after son enters with a tax official (8) ASSESSOR {ASS}{ROSE<=} around {S}

Down

1. Fish with a taste, reportedly, for a vegetable (6) GARLIC {GAR}{~LICK}
2. Spreads // some of the edible fungi (9) MUSHROOMS (DD)
3. Dash to meet the last of the elder Bantu statesmen (3) RUN {eldeR bantU statesmeN}
4. Restrain the vocal followers of a branch of Islam under the monarch with the tailoring scissors (7,6) PINKING SHEARS {PIN}{KING}{~SHIAS}
6. Justification requiring more than just reasoning? (1,10) A POSTERIORI (CD?)
7. Vegetable from Ontario absorbs the nitrogen spread around the volcanic moon (5) ONION {O{N}{IO}N}
8. Rock forcing son to make way for the bridge player with a canopy (6) TEETER {TE(-s+E)TER}
10. Neo's nurse rose to correct the inaccuracy (13) ERRONEOUSNESS {NEO'S +NURSE+ROSE*}
13. Head off with the chairs prior to getting enough power to replace Mark's fruit for dessert (6,5) EATING APPLE {sEATING}{A(-m+P)PLE}
16. Aromatic herbs found in a bassinet designed to accommodate Henry (9) ABSINTHES {BASSINET*} around  {H}
18. Sapota toasted partially with a vegetable (6) POTATO (T)
19. Pungent seasoning lifts the salesman's spirit initially (6) PEPPER {PEP}{REP<=}
21. Proceed // with the distribution (5) ISSUE (DD)
25. Article given by you a long time back to the auditor (3) THE {~THEE}

Reference List

Priest=Eli, Note=Re, Good=G, One=I, Oriental=E, Note=So, Connecticut=CT, Sailor=AB, Son=S
Ontario=On, Nitrogen=N, Volcanic moon=Io, Henry=H, Salesman=Rep

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