The Sunday Crossword No 3154, Sunday 13 Jun 2021

Lockdown day 46 of 47 Stay Safe at Home

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ACROSS

1   Tibetan monks said they might give you wool (6) LLAMAS (~lamas)

4   Port, and a few lines of poetry (8) LIMERICK [DD]

9   Change Greek character with brief thank-you note (6) MUTATE {MU}{TA}{TE}

10 Roughly sand that item of furniture (8) HATSTAND*

12 Élite ate up scones etc. (5,3) CREAM TEA {CREAM}{ATE*}

13 Pass up garbage (6) REFUSE [DD]

15 More than one pastry poet's finishing off – plenty, and then some! (12) OVERABUNDANT {OVER}{A}{BUN}{DANTe}

18 Hire wrestler for training, one with wiry hair (5,7) WELSH TERRIER*

21 Exercise, having ingested rich sauce somewhere in Czech Republic (6) PRAGUE {P{RAGU}E}

22 Where to find fruit or vegetables? (8) ORCHARDS {OR}{CHARDS}

24 Around church, timeless descant arranged to offer musical endings (8) CADENCES {DESCANt}* over {CE}

25 Commercial almost exceedingly bold: scandalously, perhaps? (6) ADVERB {AD}{VERy}{B}

26 Adjusting recordings of rock band Nine Inch Nails' guitarists' intros (8) REMIXING {REM}{IX}{Inch}{Nails}{Gu...s}

27 Henry's uncle, divorcee, chopped up tree (6) EXETER {EX}{TREE*}

DOWN

1   Writer of essays about jump cut (4,4) LAMB CHOP {LAMB}{C}{HOP}

2   The French tucked into wine after creepy-crawly with bony outgrowths (8) ANTLERED {LE} in {ANT}{RED}

3   Menu with quail: aunt ordered, given steer, some time in September (8,7) AUTUMNAL EQUINOX {MENU+QUAIL+AUNT}*{OX}

5   Country where Everyman was a contender (4) IRAN {I}{RAN}

6   Type of Christian festival given direction: do up old cross (7,8) EASTERN ORTHODOX {EASTER}{NORTH}{DO<=}{O}{X}

7   Impetuous Cretan? Absolutely! Regretful under sun, primarily! (6) ICARUS Acrostic &lit

8   Pretend to have mounting appetite for offal (6) KIDNEY {KID}{YEN<=}

11 Composer's intro mostly sassy, regularly (7) DEBUSSY {DEBUt}{SaSsY}

14 Who's beginning to shun wordiest mess? (7) EDITORS wORDIEST* &lit

16 Most angry if secret gets out (8) FIERCEST*

17 To go all the way over pub – that's some bike! (8) CROSSBAR {CROSS}{BAR}

19 Former US press secretary to add excitement to start of race (6) SPICER {SPICE}{Race}

20 One after another in accident and emergency (6) TANDEM [T]

23 Spanish kingdom's Christmas Rising (4) LEON<=

Reference List

Brief thank you = TA, Note = TE, Exercise = PE, Time = T, Commercial = AD, Bold = B, About = C, The in French = LE, Old = O