No 13240, Thursday 06 May 2021, Bruno

Lockdown Day 9 of 14 Stay Safe

Solution to 23A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS

6   Ape, wolf, mongrel, and bird (7) PEAFOWL*

7   Dance at University — partner’s starting to get upset (5-2) SHAKE-UP {SHAKE}{U}{Pa...r}

9   Scandinavian vegetable (5) SWEDE [DD]

10 Li’s preferences? (9) SHORTLIST {LISt}

11 Perhaps Indian team’s heart’s back (7) EASTERN {tEAm}{STERN}

13 Bully Vicar’s hard to replace, right? (6) HECTOR (-r+h)HECTOR

15 Prejudice will prosper, mostly, when cultivated by Congress (13) PREPOSSESSION {PROSPEr}*{SESSION}

19 Old car of bishop has incense (6) BANGER {B}{ANGER}

20 Secretary has no right at all to wear precious gem (4,3) CATS EYE {SECrETArY}*

23 Order vehicle transport, favoring no banks (9) C?R?I?O?A (Addendum - CARNOIVORA {CAR}{fAVORINg}* - See comments)

24 Prices on jackets essentially covered by edge of scarf (5) COSTS CO(-a+s)STS

26 Figure out before getting book with solution (7) SOLVENT {SOLVE}{NT}

27 Excavated thief’s den (7) CONCAVE {CON}{CAVE}

DOWN

1   Husband has beer to be strong (4) HALE {H}{ALE}

2   Bond’s commanding officer’s arrived (6) COHERE {CO}{HERE}

3   Start of crush — lose head for intimacy (9) CLOSENESS {Cr..h}{LOSE}{NESS}

4   Male thespian about to be kicked out for starting to throw-up on bed (8) MATTRESS {M}{A(-c+t)TTRESS}

5   Plant producing hop tree oil (10) HELIOTROPE*

6   Pale & extremely soft perhaps? (6) PASTEL {PALE+SofT}* &lit

7   Oslo town regularly getting washed out in the near future (4) SOON {oSlO+tOwN}

8   Firecracker’s quiet and slow when cap’s taken off (6) PETARD {P}{rETARD}

12 First slip to fourth slip cordon with spin on? That’s appetising! (6,4) SPRING ROLL {Slip}{sliP}{RING}{ROLL}

14 Fish’s barnacle requires regular trimming perhaps (9) PERCHANCE {PERCH}{bArNaClE}

16 Building with penthouse top has lifts containing themed interiors (8) PREMISES {Pe...e}{R{thEMed}ISES}

17 Computing device for autobasic programming — does not involve zero, one, and two, basically (6) ABACUS AUtoBASiC*

18 One that contracts to a smaller extent, even extending at the edges (6) LESSEE {LESS}{Even}{Ex...g}

21 High energy music from tense parrot fed nuts mainly (6) TECHNO {T}{ECH{Nuts}O}

22 Extortion, essentially is wrong (4) TORT [T]

25 Tesla truck transports construction material (4) SLAT [T]

Reference List

University = U, Hard = H, Right = R, Bishop = B, Book = NT, Husband = H, Male = M, About = C, Quiet = P, Tense = T