Sunday 31 October 2021

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

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