The Sunday Crossword No 3174, Sunday 31 Oct 2021

ACROSS

1   Chart showing pub and hotel stocking mostly pinot, perhaps (3,5) BAR GRAPH {BAR}{GRAPe}{H}

5   150 snakes offering embraces (6) CLASPS {CL}{ASPS}

9   Placed in water, bananas simmered (8) IMMERSED*

10 Sent back kind of pudding the French consumed: it's very rich and creamy (6) ECLAIR {RICE}<= over {LA}

12 Divulge what they do in 'Danny, the Champion of the World' (4,3,4,4) GIVE THE GAME AWAY [C&DD]

13 Liability set to return in experimental environment (4,3) TEST BED {DEBT}{SET}<= 

14 Elderly relative's fragrant (to some extent) (4) GRAN [T]

18 A little sad, Everyman's a rejected novelist (4) AMIS {Sad}{I'M}{A}<=

19 Perhaps Victoria, perhaps Dave (7) STATION [DD] 

23 'No hit', twice: Kent ace resolved to accept defeat (4,2,2,3,4) TAKE IT ON THE CHIN {NO+HIT+HIT+KENT+ACE}*

24 Not very quiet birdhouse – it's full of bees (6) APIARY A(-v+p)PIARY

25 Romeo, gutted; teardrops, perhaps – for his love? (8) ROSALINE {RomeO}{SALINE} Semi&lit

26 'Horrible Bosses' to occupy one's thoughts (6) OBSESS*

27 Rates some classes' sessions (8) ASSESSES [T]

DOWN

1   It's used in snooker game (6) BRIDGE [DD]

2   Take out a degree of indirectness (6) REMOVE [DD]

3   They're seldom seen: essentially drab grim items of neckwear (8) RARITIES {dRAb}{gRIm}{TIES}

4   Illustrated talk giving position of baby in the womb (12) PRESENTATION [DD]

6   Loudly compare fungus and alga (6) LICHEN (~liken)

7   Film's leads hiding – icy, stuck up (4,4) STAR WARS {STAR{RAW<=}S}

8   Distracted stingray wandering off (8) STRAYING*

11 Listen to a man performing Old Testament book (12) LAMENTATIONS*

15 Opposed to puncturing starch in the City (8) SANTIAGO {S{ANTI}AGO}

16 Serviceman, new, sporting flowers and booze (4,4) PINK GINS {PINK{GI}{N}S} 

17 Programmer's dearest material (8) LOVELACE {LOVE}{LACE} 

20 Terminating in Gulf, river irrigating Sumer, primarily? (6) TIGRIS Acrostic &lit

21 Some singers some paper reported (6) CHOIRS (~quires)

22 Arising, well-groomed entertaining knight prepares for investiture (6) KNEELS {SLEE{N}K<=}

Reference List

Hotel = H, 150 = CL, The in French = LA, Very = V, Quiet = P, New = N, Knight = N