The Sunday Crossword No 3187, Sunday 30 Jan 2022

ACROSS

1   Hope network's designed to be aware of best practice (4,3,5) KNOW THE ROPES*

10 No time for getting tied up in pastime (7) ANGLING tANGLING

11 Some bigwig ran a dancehall in Spanish city (7) GRANADA [T]

12 Rose, shunning society, travelled by canoe (5) OARED sOARED

13 'Differently honestly'? (2,3,3) ON THE SLY* Semi&lit

15 Copy published after T S Eliot initially conceals act of plagiarism (10) TRANSCRIBE {T{RAN}S{CRIB}Eliot} 

16 Farmyard youngster that's just over a foot (4) CALF [DD]

18 Characters in expensive picture, Ben-Hur perhaps (4) EPIC [T]

20 Girl – not a medallist, we're told – to make a sudden rush (5,5) SALLY FORTH {SALLY}{FORTH(~fourth)}

22 Popular actors take these weapons (8) LONGBOWS {LONG BOWS}

24 Schoolchild's twisted effrontery, rebellious (5) PUPIL {LIP}{UP}<=

26 After disruption, setter's most brusque (7) TERSEST*

27 Cassock's slightly altered for cavalryman (7) COSSACK*

28 Entered, dimly tingling with purpose (12) DETERMINEDLY*

DOWN

2   African nation, one with capital in Abuja? (7) NIGERIA {NIGER}{1}{Ab..a} &lit

3   The Observer embracing Right, that is most odd (8) WEIRDEST {WE}{I{R}DEST}

4   Uttered casual greeting, being drunk (4) HIGH (~hi)

5   Newspaper, Independent, covers no-good rubbish boxing movie (6,4) RAGING BULL {RAG}{I}{NG}{BULL}

6   Primarily: poet (... listed alongside Ted Hughes?) (5) PLATH Acrostic &lit

7   Perhaps pens epistle, angry initially in Welsh city (7) SWANSEA {SWANS}{Ep...e}{An..y}

8   Perhaps Rev. Spooner's butterflies, skippers, etc? (3,2,3,5) MAN OF THE CLOTH (~ clan of the moth to man of the cloth) Are moth's butterflies?

9   A key held aloft, cryptic Arthurian figure (4,2,3,4) LADY OF THE LAKE*

14 Time to study Scott, perhaps – lecturer's wanting to hold back (5,5) TREAD WATER {T}{READ}{WAlTER}

17 Slightly smelly Greek characters felt shame finally in unexpected ways (3-5) OFF-PISTE {OFF}{PIS}{felT}{s..mE}

19 Everyman blushes, admitting sanitation ultimately neglected (7) IGNORED {I GO RED} over {s...oN}

21 Artist putting blame on shade of brown, that's not unknown (7) RAPHAEL {RAP}{HAzEL}

23 Chicken serving one rejected in French city (5) BREST BREaST

25 Culinary ingredient regularly extracted from saccharin (4) ACAI sAcChArIn

Reference List

Time = T, Society = S, Foot = F, Right = R, Independent = I, That is = ID EST, No-good = NG, Lecturer = L, Unknown = Z