The Sunday Crossword No 3313, Sunday 30 Jun 2024

13A, 14A, 1D, 2D

ACROSS

1   Finally enjoy prize after good turn (6) GYRATE {e..oY}{RATE}<=>{G}

4   Perhaps clubs holding all that remains: hands seen at ends of these? (8) ARMRESTS {ARM{REST}S}

9   Section of certain material one may wish to escape (6) INMATE [T]

10 Somewhere in Mexico, a Catholic by cupola, trembling (8) ACAPULCO  {A}{C}{CUPOLA}*

11 Good old crossword setter: lad’s flipping getting top award (4,5) GOLD MEDAL {G}{OLD}{ME}{LAD<=}

13 River creature getting closer in Cockney’s game (5) OTTER hOTTER

14 Leisure activity from which you may hope to be dropped? (9,4) PARCHUTE JUMP [CD]

17 Esther shortly dons formal footwear, makes timely investment (6,3,4) PRIMES THE PUMP {PRIM}{ESTHEr}{PUMP}

20 After a month, publication rejected letter from Athens (5) GAMMA {A}{M}{MAG}<=

21 Traditionalists hold out with loco beliefs in the end (3,6) OLD SCHOOL {HOLD+LOCO+b...fS}*

23 English books thrice rejected, embroiling English again in confrontation (3-2-3) TOE-TO-TOE {E}{OT}{OT}{OT}<= over {E}

24 Dog tooth (6) CANINE [DD]

25 Secret agent’s drinking in pub by Earl’s woodland (8) SPINNEYS {SP{INN}{E}Y'S}

26 Plays safe in t-shirts, to some extent (6) FEINTS [T]

DOWN

1   Leave a fitness class, finding yourself off the deep end (5,3) GOING APE {GOING}{A}{PE}

2   One with a compass – point’s lost by him? (7) RAMBLER [DD]

3   Drink the writer raised, it honours a family (5) TOTEM {TOT}{ME<=}

5   Looked back on scripture lessons: cool! (11) RECOLLECTED {RE}{COLLECTED}

6   Copy badly executed procedure (9) REPRODUCE*

7   Part of Croatian city on high (5,2) SPLIT UP {SPLIT}{UP}

8   Hunts, in scrubs (6) SCOURS [DD]

12 Casting out money and Red Book (11) DEUTERONOMY {OUT+MONEY+RED}*

15 Punch a tenor, getting personal in area with many restaurants (9) CHINATOWN {CHIN}{A}{T}{OWN}

16 Those intoning M-A-G-I-C? (8) SPELLERS [C&DD]

17 Grandeur that is retrograde, Everyman’s a tragic relic of former times (7) POMPEII {POMP}{IE<=}{I}

18 Perfect, working out pain (7) UTOPIAN*

19 Ancient Greece’s artisanal trinkets’ expensive stones, primarily? (6) AGATES Acrostic &lit

22 Bird that’s seen on building site (5) CRANE [DD]

Reference List

Good = G, Catholic = C, Month = M, Periodical = MAG, English = E, Earl = E, Fitness class = PE, Scripture lessons = RE(Religious education), Tenor = T