The Sunday Crossword No 3231, Sunday 04 Dec 2022

ACROSS

1   More than regrets legacy: a top job abandoned (6,7) ABJECT APOLOGY {LEGACY+A+TOP+JOB}*

8   Catastrophe: ill-temper returns (4) DOOM<=

9   Bone eaten by fearsome Tatars, allegedly (10) METATARSAL [T]

10 'Robust' boat's submerged: bother! (6)  HASSLE {HA{SS}LE}

11 Doing Brazilian dance, sing about a business degree (8) SAMBAING {S}{A}{MBA}IMG}

12 Explosive, a weapon mostly full of hot air (9) BOMBASTIC {BOMB}{A}{STICk}

14 Land a fish (4) CHAD [DD]

15 Young farm animal that comes up to your knee (4) CALF [DD]

16 Wanting G&T, having ordered escargots, the French dish (9) CASSEROLE {ESCARgOtS}*{LE}

20 Losing heart, incorrect to rearrange performances (8) CONCERTI INCOrRECT*

21 We're told of a system that describes a rising anchor (6) AWEIGH (~ a way)

23 Regrettably, the realist is more underhand (10) STEALTHIER*

24 Hollow lair by edge of forest (4) DENT {DEN}{f...sT}

25 Way ace dramas recollected (including director)? (7,6) ACADEMY AWARDS {WAY+SEE+DRAMAS}* over {D} &lit

DOWN

1   Fifty kicked out of a singing party that's gone pear-shaped? (7) AVOCADO {A}{VOCAl}{DO}

2   Rises from seats as Juliet sits in for Romeo (5) JUMPS (-r+j)JUMPS

3   Tent-dwellers skip about, son falling onto bottom (7) CAMPERS (-s)CAMPER(+s)S

4   Creative talent fellow's wanting, it is 'flair' by tacit arrangement (8,7) ARTISTIC ABILITY  {IT+IS+fLAIR+BY+TACIT}* 

5   Punctual? Not unreliable Everyman (repeatedly) (2,4) ON TIME {NOT*}{I}{ME}

6   In favour, fat heretic's prayer (3,6) OUR FATHER [T]

Our Father, which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy Name;

Thy kingdom come;

Thy will be done

in earth, as it is in heaven:

Give us this day our daily bread;

And forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive them that trespass against us;

And lead us not into temptation,

But deliver us from evil;

For thine is the kingdom,

the power, and the glory,

For ever and ever.

Amen.

7   Desired renovation of deanery (7) YEARNED*

13 Initially, battle; and latterly also clothing lending a visage anonymity? (9) BALACLAVA Acrostic Semi&lit

15 Cuba and Sweden denied Costa Rica could be a nation state (7) CROATIA {cOsTA+RICA}*

17 Bird species, briefly something linked to flight (7) SPARROW {SP}{ARROW}

18 Great people, they're on the map (7) LEGENDS [DD]

19 Lisper's to get up and thrash about (6) WRITHE (~ rise)

22 Source of wine that's aged? (5) ELDER [DD]

Reference List

Boat = SS, The in French = LE, Party = DO, Juliet = J, Romeo = R, Son = S, Fellow = F, Cuba = C, Sweden = S, Species = SP