The Sunday Crossword No 3247, Sunday 26 Mar 2023

ACROSS

1   Once again, sketches vermillion vessels? (8) REDRAFTS {RED}{RAFTS}

5   Needing no introduction, criticises remains (5) ASHES bASHES

9   Poet's socially acceptable, did you say? (5) DONNE (~ done)

10 Primarily sparse and neat style, spurning excess rococo in fonts? (4,5) SANS SERIF Acrostic &lit

11 Pasta in Colombian ware needing preparation (5,8) ELBOW MACARONI*

13 Verdant meadow frantically evacuated (5) LEAFY {LEA}{Fr...lY}

14 Pretentious type recalled the writer's name: old George Eliot? (9) PSEUDONYM {PSEUD<=} and {MY}{N}{O}<=  Definition by example

15 Soaks took a stool, perhaps getting university prices (9) SATURATES {SAT}{U}{RATES}

17 What might be represented as 'Anticipating bits of my advice, do good'? (5) DOGMA {My}{Ad...e}<=>{DO}{G} Semi&lit

18 Entertaining soldiers, comically take up arms in recreational venue (9,4) AMUSEMENT PARK {MEN} in {TAKE+UP+ARMS}*

21 Pursue Ms. Beauregarde with scentless flower (3,6) DOG VIOLET {DOG}{VIOLET}

22 Keen-eyed one seeing golfer's achievement (5) EAGLE [DD]

23 Detective given largely small piece of food (5) MORSE MORSEl

24 Reconstituted rat's skin and tongue (8) SANSKRIT*

DOWN

1   Lacking direction, run like a bull? (10) RUDDERLESS {R}{UDDERLESS}

2   'Stay in touch, fellow tense and savage forest warden' (4,2,1,8)  DONT BE A STRANGER  {DON}{T}{BEAST}{RANGER}

3   Consumed a fish supper, maybe without a fork in the end (3,4) ATE AWAY {A}{TakEAWAY}

4   Engineer making contribution to Mariotte's law (5) TESLA [T]

5   To scuttle away is part of crabs' conditioning (7) ABSCOND [T]

6   Disrupting genre, arming hero, one with magical powers (8,7)  HERMIONE GRANGER*

7   On foot, very quietly (4) SOFT {FT}<=>{SO}

8   Those who move furtively in sportswear (8) SNEAKERS [DD]

12 Emma, Ben and Kelvin rebuilt National Trust mound (10) EMBANKMENT {EMMA+BEN+K}*{NT}

14 Parrot made to swallow tablet regularly, showing sign of overeating (3,5) POT BELLY {PO{TaBlEt}LLY}

16 Pedestrian comic's act (7) ROUTINE [DD]

17 Everyman, ultimately terrified, rises before the Royal Society in quaking fits (7) DITHERS {I}{t...eD}<={THE}{R}{S}

19 Run for one in the crowd? (5) EXTRA [DD]

20 First man's Australian, flipping furious (4) ADAM {A}{MAD<=}

Reference List

Meadow = LEA, University = U, Good = G, Run = R, Tense = T, Very = SO, Kelvin = K, National Trust = NT, Royal = R, Society = S, Australian = A