No 13366, Friday 01 Oct 2021, Neyartha

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ACROSS

1   Re-encoded my OS clip for the event with a Latin motto (8) OLYMPICS*

5   Bullet providing the perfect solution? (6) SILVER [CD]

9   Riches reportedly interfere with a dream achievement in 1 Ac. (4,5) GOLD MEDAL {GOLD}{(~meddle)MEDAL}

11 Time to move softly away from the verandah to get a symbol of 1 Ac. (5) TORCH (-p+t)TORCH

12 Open pastry rises to trap a hot concoction indeed (3,4) NOT HALF {N{HOT*}ALF<=}

14 Swagger in retreat around a sacred tree to get some European fish (7) TURBOTS {TUR{BO}TS<=}

15 Devious CIA penetrates the German state, resulting in the uprooting... (12) DERACINATION {DER}{CIA*}{NATION}

17 ... experience of an unwitting pandemic spreader? (12) ASYMPTOMATIC [CD]

20 Encounter with the centurion reformed after renouncing the church (3,4) RUN INTO ceNTURION*

22 One who delivers with hesitation returns to run behind son with a sign (7) RESCUER {ER<=} and {R}<=>{S}{CUE}

23 Letters from Veera touching upon a Greek muse (5) ERATO [T]

24 Austrian art movement’s formal separation (9) SECESSION [DD]

26 Top European leaders appearing personally should easily pass (6) ELAPSE Acrostic

27 Straighten out the relative becoming vitamin-deficient after ingesting an insect from the east (8) UNTANGLE {UNc{GNAT<=}LE}

DOWN

1   Vital body components of some church fixtures (6) ORGANS [DD]

2   Electric current made to pass through the study Lee decorated for Christmas seasons (9) YULETIDES {I} in {STUDY+LEE}*

3   Playing card found by flipping a cartographic item (3)  PAM<=

4 Chapter for minute adjustments to sets of written rules (13) CODIFICATIONS (-m+c) CODIFICATIONS

6   Lost war after building water-resistant highways in the USA (11) INTERSTATES {waTErRESISTANT}*

7   Right to take out the date from a news clip showing an American bird (5) VIREO VI(-d+r)REO

8   Bangalore has houses featuring old wine in a new bottle (6) REHASH [T]

10 Romance speaker from the south of the U.S with certain animal ingredients (5,8) LATIN AMERICAN*

13 Bitter one embraced by Macron, strangely devoted after loss of power (11) ACRIMONIOUS {ACR{1}MON*}{pIOUS}

16 Jamming in the ball with the cricket club on top of a noise-suppressing sail (9) OCCLUDING {O}{CC}{LU{DIN}G}

18 Country auditor’s fat (6) GREECE (~grease)

19 Early age to get a tan (6) BRONZE [DD]

21 Alan goes north to get hold of the Yankee’s antelope (5) NYALA {ALA{Y}N<=}

25 Fool’s confusion at the end in a stress-reducing locale (3) SPA S{AP}*

Reference List

Time = T, Softly = P, The in German = DER, Church = CE, Run = R, Son = S, Vitamin = C, Chapter = C, Minute = M, Right = R, Date = D, Power = P, Cricket Club = CC, Yankee = Y