The Sunday Crossword No 3140, Sunday 07 Mar 2021

Plenty of food and drink on the table today

ACROSS

1   Frustrate a sad don desperately wanting liquor (6,3,4) SCOTCH AND SODA {SCOTCH}{A+SAD+DON}* 

8   Prime minister's toast (5) BROWN [DD]

9   Knocked back most of milk, beefcake and cheese (9) LIMBURGER {MILk<=}{BURGER}

11 With greed, ekes out rice dishes (9) KEDGEREES*

12 Oddly, I'll finance hippy, if you will? (5) ILIAC {IlL+fInAnCe}

13 Bold to take starter of langoustine and honey (7) DARLING {DAR{La...e}ING}

15 Vessel raised, offering sauce (7) KETCHUP {KETCH}{UP}

17 EU not invested in neural net that might produce illumination (7) LANTERN {NeuRAL+NET}*

19 Adorned conifer with daughter (7) SPRUCED {SPRUCE}{D}

21 Sweden, on reflection: open country (5) SYRIA {S}{AIRY<=}

23 Wild green site? (9) SERENGETI* &lit

25 Given a rôle, Everyman's not 'hollow and flat' (9) APARTMENT {A}{PART}{ME}{NoT}

26 Disassemble runner hinge regularly (5) UNRIG {rUnNeR+hInGe}

27 Chaps! Chaps! Open up! Duck's wanting something to drink! (5,8) PEACH SCHNAPPS {CHAPS+CHAPS+oPEN}*

DOWN

2   Primarily: clams, herbs, onions which Delawarans eat regularly? (7) CHOWDER Acrostic Semi&lit

3   Part of fork securing bad blood orange (9) TANGERINE {T{ANGER}INE}

4   Healthy to eat vegetarian option that's cut in two (5) HALVE {HAL{V}E}

5   King Henry VIII had seven of these! (9) NAMESAKES [CD]

6   South German car: one's seen in Middle East (5) SAUDI {S}{AUDI}

7   After egg, girlfriend tucked into platter that's a kind of seafood (7) DOGFISH {D{0}{GF}ISH}

8   Dessert's bad: a sake and trimmed kale cocktail (5,6) BAKED ALASKA {BAD+A+SAKE+KALe}*

10 Mix up cider, gin and drop of Drambuie for comforting dessert (4,7) RICE PUDDING {UP+CIDER+GIN+Dr...e}*

14 Golf with dread and hesitant sounds, seeing the roughs (9) GANGSTERS {G}{ANGST}{ERS}

16 Angry words with Greek character about the French being ... hairy (9) TARANTULA {TA{RANT}U}{LA}

18 Ran up fee for detail (7) NARRATE {RAN<=}{RATE}

20 Lychee Rupert's eaten for comfort (5,2) CHEER UP [T]

22 Pedantically suppressing a bit of fun (5) ANTIC [T]

24 Strain sounding like one that's miserable (5) RETCH (~wretch)

Reference List

Daughter = D, Vegetarian = V, South = S, Golf = G, The in French = LA