The Sunday Crossword No 3167, Sunday 12 Sep 2021

ACROSS

1   Tell Lucy: coin minted for local authority (6,7)  COUNTY COUNCIL {COUNT}{LUCY+COIN}*

8   A lovely person's back? Very good (4) MEGA {A}{GEM}<=

9   Running tavern, taking time writing menu including starter of haggis (10) PUBLISHING {PUB}{LISt{Ha...s}ING}

10 Losing cent, clerk increasingly pale (6) ASHIER cASHIER

11 Opening of Coriolanus, tragedy needing excision: that’s obvious (5-3) CLEAR-CUT {Co...s}{LEAR}{CUT}

12 Found fault with Independent writer about Latin expression (5,4) CARPE DIEM {CARPED}{I}{ME<=}

14 Tennyson heroine to eat in style after retiring (4) ENID<=

15 Component of servo (Boeing instrument) (4) OBOE [T]

16 Arranged systematically; shocked! (9) STAGGERED [DD]

20 Primarily jumbo epicurean receptacle: outsize bottle of aerated merriment! (8) JEROBOAM Acrostic &lit

21 Foremost of Inuit gaffs with small rooms? (6) IGLOOS {In..t}{Ga..s}{LOOS} Semi&lit

23 Grub: for starters, one in France gets 'minced steed' – not eaten (10) UNDIGESTED {UN}{DIG}{STEED*}

24 Loudly regretted getting cross (4) ROOD (~rued)

25 104 come in with lyre playing for declaration of love (5,8) CIVIL CEREMONY {CIV}{COME+IN+LYRE}*

DOWN

1   Radical university, a part of London (7) CHELSEA {CHE}{LSE}{A}

2   A little rum (a mild taste) (5) UMAMI [T]

3   Record: wine gradually diminished (7) TAPERED {TAPE}{RED}

4   Bent copper, crime etc: I activated measure (5,10) CUBIC CENTIMETRE {BENT+CU+CRIME+ETC+I}*

5   One solver honoured in announcement (6) UNITED (~you knighted)

6   One creche assembled union (9) COHERENCE*

7   Relaxed dipping into Milan guidebook (7) LANGUID [T]

13 Musician's press release to approve disc by Furious Five (9) PROKOFIEV {PR}{OK}{O}{FIVE*}

15 Big cocaine bust (7) OCEANIC*

17 German Enigma that’s set on fire (7) GRIDDLE {G}{RIDDLE}

18 In brasserie, at the end, old trick: Everyman's saving money (7) ECONOMY {b...rE}{CON}{O}{MY} 

19 Live, accepting love – and prosper (2,4) DO WELL {D{0}WELL}

22 Left without 100 goods' slow movement (5) LARGO {L}{cARGO}

Reference List

Time = T, Cent = C, Independent = I, One in French = UN, 104 = CIV, German = G, Old = O, Left = L, 100 = C