No 13798, Saturday 25 Feb 2023, Hypatia

ACROSS

1   Gulf's best breaks between trips (3,5) PIT STOPS {PITS}{TOPS}

5   Letter from lawyer chasing naive person (6) LAMBDA {DA}<=>{LAMB}

10 Regret about society dividing further (7) REMORSE {RE}{MOR{S}E}

11 Trips featuring players' lives (7) RESIDES {R{E}{S}IDES}

12 Sick author had retired in city (5) DILLI {ILL}{I'D}<=

13 Reverend's main pager - one with buzzers? (3,6) BEE KEEPER (~key beeper to bee keeper)

14 Say, Tim ran recklessly with her to elope (5,2,5) MARRY IN HASTE {SAY+TIM+RAN+HER}* 

18 In a short time, one sets challenge for artist (12) MICHELANGELO {MO} over {1}{CHALLENGE}*

21 The star attraction Daniel, terribly bores that woman (9) HEADLINER {HE{DANIEL*}R}

23 Flower close to small bark (5) GROWL {GROW}{s..lL}

24 Infatuated male drawn by model with perfect figure (7) SMITTEN {S{M}IT}{TEN}

25 Bug and ant biting African national (7) UGANDAN [T]

26 Dispatched money backing Amartya, say (4,2) SENT IN {TIN}<=>{SEN}

27 Yes, do cast characters repeatedly in sagas (8) ODYSSEYS Letter Bank 

DOWN

1   Show is leaving Shangri La, say (6) PARADE PARADisE

2   Mother's anecdote about Mexican food (6) TAMALE {TA{MA}LE}

3   Stop featuring tailless animal in gallery (9) TERMINATE {T{ERMINe}ATE}

4   Negotiating faulty airbag softly tilting around (4,10) PLEA BARGAINING {P}{LEA{AIRBAG*}NING}

6   Passage from Ramayana is legendary (5) AISLE [T] Semi&lit

7   Friend copies customs essentially in city (8) BUDAPEST {BUD}{APES}{cusToms}

8   Several English stars do plays (8) ASSORTED {E+STARS+DO}*

9   Conducive place to reproduce bird gene (8,6) BREEDING GROUND {BIRD+GENE}* [RA]

15 Quickly check units capturing nothing in images (9) HOLOGRAMS HOL{O}{GRAMS} Anno not clear (Addendum - {HOLd}{O}{GRAMS} - See comments)

16 The MP has issues controlling stress (8) EMPHASIS [T]

17 Effect of time (8) OCCASION [DD]

19 Fellow dealing with dairy uses eggs basically for dish (6) FONDUE {F}{ON}{Da..y}{Uses}{Eggs}

20 Makes it impossible to see screens (6) BLINDS [DD]

22 Starts to like any treat having iced stick (5) LATHI Acrostic

Reference List

Lawyer = DA, About = RE, Society = S, Short time = MO, Male = M, Model = SIT, Money = TIN, Softly = P, English = E, Fellow = F