The Sunday Crossword No 3147, Sunday 25 Apr 2021

ACROSS

1   Baked good might make you portly? As if! (4,6) FILO PASTRY*

6   '70s sitcom, fluffy fare? (4) MASH [DD]

9   'Republican monarchy': hard to penetrate crazy vestiges of Empire (5,5) ROMAN BATHS {R}{OMAN} {BAT{H}S}

10 Withdrawing exasperated utterance, seeing celeb (4) STAR<=

12 Place for experiments; artist with sketch being cross (11) LABRADOODLE {LAB}{RA}{DOODLE}

15 Musician, chaste? Around about 50/50 (7) PURCELL {PUR{C}E}{LL}

16 Piece of work announced: instructions for gardener, seamstress? (2-3-2) SO-AND-SO (~sow and sow)

17 Slice of apricot tart and cheese (7) RICOTTA [T[

19 Vegetate on vacation touring Chile resort in caravan, perhaps (7) VEHICLE {Ve...tE}{CHILE*}

20 Waving hello, maniac creates despair (11) MELANCHOLIA*

23 Number of regressive Leninists (4) NINE [T<=]

24 Playing in flames is penultimate set of games (4-6) SEMI-FINALS*

25 A canal God recalled (4) SUEZ<=

26 Notes describing sheep liver, perhaps, somewhere in US (3,7) NEW ENGLAND {N{EWE}N}{GLAND}

DOWN

1   Some of Armenia is agricultural land (4) FARM [T]

2   Shiny fabric? Implausible (4) LAME [DD]

3   Biplane agent repaired (mechanical reparation) (5,7) PANEL BEATING*

4   Dish, German, in Baden-Baden ... maybe throw up (4,3) SPAG BOL {SPA}{G}{LOB<=}

5   Tries once more removing Bottom from what actors do with play (7) REHEARS REHEARSe

7   After seeing, perhaps Golf: Introduction to Driving Everyman would play (... he's never had a lesson) (10) AUTODIDACT {AUTO}{Dr...g}{I'D}{ACT} 

8   In training, rower hopes to achieve measure of potency (10) HORSEPOWER*

11 'La ti re so'? Hang about: this gives me energy! (5,7) SOLAR HEATING*

13 A standard time before workers finally built employers' homes (10) APARTMENTS {A}{PAR}{T}{MEN}{b..lT}{e...rS}

14 Aggression displayed by curt, uppity, oddly ugly eunuch with energy (10) TRUCULENCE {CURT*}{UgLy}{EuNuCh}{E}

18 Let hate wildly make you a competitor (7) ATHLETE*

19 Cunning and very posh, the French will conceal banking info (7) VULPINE {V}{U}{L{PIN}E}

21 Duchamp's art, denying aesthetics primarily? (4) DADA Acrostic &lit

22 American edition (second-hand) (4) USED {US}{ED}

Reference List

Republican = R, Hard = H, Artist = RA, About = C, 50 = L, Note = N, German = G, Standard = PAR, Time = T, Energy = E, Very = V, Posh = U, The in French = LE, Edition = ED