No 13473, Monday 07 Feb 2022, Bruno

Solution to 27A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS

6   Luxurious, soft, and green (5) PLUSH {P}{LUSH}

7   Westernised holy man embracing scoundrel’s feet (8) TROTTERS {ST<=} over {ROTTER}

10 June, Bill, and Leah partly ushering in English party (7) JUBILEE {JUne}{BIll}{L{E}Eah}

11 Bang! Queen fired Uzi as a test (3,4) POP QUIZ {POP}{Q}{UZI*}

12 Magazine featured John playing game (7) MAHJONG {MA{JOHN*}G}

13 Mood as European Commission embraced local language? Repulsed! (7) CLIMATE {E{TAMIL}C}<=

14 13Ac observed here, perhaps tracked — wee high, basically (7,4) WEATHER DECK {TRACKED+WEE+High}*

19 Raid found two rupees and a piece of underwear hidden in kitchen appliance (7) OVERRUN {OVE{R}{R}{Un...r}N}

21 America’s universal friend — often... (7) USUALLY {US}{U}{ALLY}

23 ... covered in money, conducted war with business (3,4) CAR WASH {CA{WAR*}SH}

25 Note — flying gull putting end of anchovy on victim (4,3) FALL GUY {FA}{GULL*}{a...vY}

26 Inconvenient accommodation for Eastern queen trapped in area (8) STEERAGE {ST{E}{ER}AGE}

27 Unknown, operated by Unit and reversed gives a kind of operator (5) U?A?Y (Addendum - UNARY {Y}{RAN}{U}<= - See comments)

DOWN

1   Part of play when mud’s flung on boy, who’s dancing (8) DUMBSHOW {MUD*}{B}{HOWS*}

2   Avoiding AA, sot finally in allopathy treatment? That’s kinda flaky... (6) PHYLLO aLLOPatHY*

3   Rest, perhaps — no good after that workout (10) STRENGTHEN {REST*}{N}{G}{THEN}

4   Wear out in all directions (4) POOP<=>

5   Lacking experience mainly, exercising amateur got serious injury (6) TRAUMA AMATeUR*

6   Jean regularly wearing parents’ nightwear (6) PAJAMA {PA}{JeAn}{MA}

8   Part of ship requiring work during high tides (7) TOPSIDE {T{OP}SIDE*}

9   Old Mexican alphabet ends with T — these days, it’s reversed (5) AZTEC {A-Z}{T}{CE<=}

13 Mark’s merciful action in empty complex (10) CIRCUMFLEX {MERCIFUL}* in {Co...eX}

15 It may carry signal from one in war, perhaps, with audiovisual message, ultimately (7) AIRWAVE {A{1}RW*}{AV}{m...gE}

16 Lightweight metalworking complex went bust — was abandoned (8) KILOGRAM MetALwORKInG*

17 Cold-set cake’s bottom is sweet (5) DOLCE {COLD*}{cakE}

18 Limits of seismology, zoology, geneology, and heavenly alignment (6) SYZYGY {Se...gY}{Zo...gY}{Ge...gY}

20 Royal banned rare art work for mistakes (6) ERRATA {rARE+ART}*

22 Sign of mutual exchanges? (6) UMLAUT*

24 Boss of the administration somewhat (4) HEAD [T]

Refrence List

Soft = P, Holy man = ST, English = E, Queen = Q, Unknown = Y, Unit = U, Rupee = R, Universal = U, Note = FA, Eastern = E, Queen = ER, Boy = B, No = N, Good = G, These days = CE, Royal = R