The Sunday Crossword No 3298, Sunday 17 Mar 2024

ACROSS

1   Shows articles needing revision (8) RECITALS*

5   Bows found in war chest (6) ARCHES [T]

9   Guiding bovine in German (8) STEERING {STEER}{IN}{G}

10 T-bone? Quite the opposite; it's a rice dish (6) PAELLA PAtELLA

11 Then I get how playing vuvuzela perhaps is epic (4,4,3,4) GONE WITH THE WIND {THEN+I+GET+HOW}*{WIND}

13 Diana Ross's colleague is kind of chicken (7) SUPREME [DD]

14 Hide from ultimately hideous family (4) SKIN {h...uS}{KIN}

18 This kind of jazz makes you leap back (4) TRAD <=

19 Great syrups for VIPs (7) BIGWIGS {BIG}{WIGS}

23 Bizarrely, some cheer tabloid (a number) (4,5,3,3) HERE COMES THE SUN {SOME+CHEER}*{THE SUN}

24 Taking heads – extremely impatiently – ghastly husband, this Henry? (6) EIGHTH Acrostic &lit

25 Remove somewhat obese para, temporarily (8) SEPARATE [T]

26 Drank heavily, like an ornamental fish? (6) TANKED [DD]

27 Easiest trips taking in Italy, in my view (2,1,3,2) AS I SEE IT {EASIEST}* over {I}

DOWN

1   Quit – and enlist once again? (6) RESIGN {RE-SIGN}

2   Charlie rests, then does housework (6) CLEANS {C}{LEANS}

3   Deliberately lose boxing match – no longer bold – waste (5,3) THROW OUT {THROW bOUT}

4   Thinking ahead, men trim logs ornately (4-7) LONG-TERMISM*

6   Red Queen's absorbing a bookworm? (6) READER {RE{A}D}{ER}

7   European capital's underworld's dark, they say (8) HELSINKI (~ hells inky)

8   Deputies' reputations not good (5-3) STAND-INS STANDINgS

12 Samples including Everyman's – I'm disgusted – pointless diversions (4-7) TIME-WASTERS {T{I'M}{EW}ASTERS}

15 Ethicist squirming, most uncomfortable (8) ITCHIEST*

16 Model and monarch in Iberian kingdom: bit of a dish? (8) TARRAGON {T}{AR{R}AGON}

17 The quickest learners hurl foodstuffs at senior teachers (8) EGGHEADS {EGG}{HEADS} 

20 Finally finishes plastic surgery with the sharpened tool (6) SCYTHE {f...eS}{p...iC}{s...rY}{THE}

21 Who speaks for author who's pegged it in largish car (6) ESTATE [DD]

22 Consume food – not seriously, you say? (6) INGEST (~in jest)

Reference List

German = G, Italy = I, Charlie = C, Bold = B, Queen = ER, Good = G, Disgusted = EW, Model = T, Monarch = R