The Sunday Crossword No 3073, Sunday 10 Nov 2019

ACROSS
1   Here, fan quotes wild card (5,2,6) QUEEN OF HEARTS*
8   Antenatal class includes what you might find in nappy (4) TALC [T]
9   Hard to get broadband firm? We call around, maintaining calm voice (10) WHISPERING {H}{ISP} in {WE}{RING}
10 Having ingested cocaine, apologise immediately (2,4) AT ONCE {ATON{C}E}
11 Coach, before game with United: 'Time to go all out' (4,1,3) BUST A GUT {BUS}{TAG}{U}{T}
12 Preserve architectural band declared 'uninteresting' (6-3) FREEZE-DRY (~frieze){FREEZE}{DRY}
14 For starters, lynx!? I ordered no big cat (4) LION Acrostic
15 We take milk from these birds? Not right (4) COWS CrOWS
16 What's overthrown aged movie? (5,4) VIDEO GAME* &lit
20 PM ordered airfields to keep out France (8) DISRAELI AIRfIELDS*
21 Movie star, zany – sides splitting (6) TARZAN {sTAR+ZANy}
23 Indian PM with tale about one with potential to change (10) MODIFIABLE {MODI}{F{1}ABLE} First Indian PM other than Nehru appearing in an Everyman?
24 Nowt up in Ilkley, say (4) TOWN*
25 'Her Kind of Goat', unusual number-one song (4,2,3,4) KING OF THE ROAD*


DOWN
1   Coin a term for 'dismember' (7) QUARTER [DD]
2   Former Tory, such as Jeffrey Archer (2-3) EX-CON [DD]
3   'Present.' 'Present.' 'Absent?' (7) NOWHERE {NOW}{HERE}
4   Flighty one, tale-teller describing law-breaker's head that is initially displayed on gallows (15) FLIBBERTIGIBBET {F{La...r}IBBER}{That}{Is}{GIBBET}
5   Separating Earl and model kiss: it's a scandal (6) EXPOSE {E}{X}{POSE}
6   Once more, leafing through 'Drunken Grenadier' (9) REREADING*
7   Tenderness where miserable nun rubs (7) SUNBURN*
13 Fellow lost, scour far and wide for an age (9) EDWARDIAN {fAR+AND+WIDE}*
15 Two ducks enter crack in helicopter (7) CHINOOK {CHIN{00}K}

17 Rambling around Exeter, topless Everyman: it's the limit (7) EXTREME {eXETER}*{ME}
18 Sounded like Tabby, maid swooning with woe (7) MIAOWED {MAID+WOE}*
19 Movie star fan ignored – not good (2,4) DE NIRO IgNORED*
22 Old-school tie at first overshadowed by sombrero? Not half (5) RETRO {sombRE{Tie}RO}

Reference List
Hard = H, Cocaine = C, United = U, Time = T, Right = R, France = F, Earl = E, Kiss = X, Fellow = F, Duck = 0, Good = G