The Sunday Crossword No 3315, Sunday 14 Jul 2024

ACROSS

1   Concerning discrimination that may be experienced following a meal (10) AFTERTASTE {AFTER}{TASTE}

6   Best to have tricky situation reversed (4) TOPS<=

9   Tearing apart camel bone (10) METACARPAL*

10 Norman city’s best loved? Not entirely (2,2) ST LO [T]

11 Test consists of loud conflict, outcome of a duel (12) SATISFACTION {SAT}{IS}{F}{ACTION}

15 Joanna’s decent? (7) UPRIGHT [DD]

16 Fruit pie – the last – it’s his (7) COBBLER [DD]

17 One who hesitates verbally, missing intro; she takes a nosedive (7) TUMBLER sTUMBLER

19 Stuffy, with no issues, you say? (7) AIRLESS (~ heirless)

20 In Venice, orator rambling: it’s too much (12) OVERREACTION*

23 Innovative virtuoso eschewing simplicity, primarily? (4) IVES Acrostic &lit

24 Asians’ river basin turbulent including old delta (10) CAMBODIANS {CAM}{B{O}{D}IANS*}

25 Cut into German tree (4) GASH {G}{ASH}

26 Miss redeye, rerouted to area by Irish Sea (10) MERSEYSIDE*

DOWN

1   It gets loaded in the morning moment (4) AMMO {AM}{MO}

2   In Paris, you twice assembled a short skirt (4) TUTU {TU}{TU}

3   Sounding drunk, Ms Merkel’s not quite square? (11) RECTANGULAR (~ wrecked angela}

4   ‘Sentient’ tech runs alternative to stairs that’s used in an emergency (7) AIRLIFT {AI}{R}{LIFT}

5   Buying and selling ingredients for jam? (7) TRAFFIC [DD]

7   Cricketer’s futile redo botched … (10) OUTFIELDER*

8   … as polar bear is to dismiss a couple of batsmen? (10) SPOONERISM Def by example (~polar bear to bowl a pair)

12 In which money (by card) is blown? (5,6) CYBER MONDAY* &lit

13 Having a lot to offer? (10) AUCTIONING [CD]

14 Swans: they have some brass (10) TRUMPETERS [DD]

18 All are reeling before end of stale beer (4,3) REAL ALE {ALL+ARE}*{s..lE}

19 Taking some chianti, besotted, somewhere on the Riviera (7) ANTIBES [T]

21 Everyman’s after a hostelry in Italian port (4) BARI {BAR}{I}

22 Lives with the French; no one can walk away from here (4) ISLE {IS}{LE}

Reference List

Loud = F, Old = O, Delta = D, rman = G, Moment = MO, You in French = TU, Sentient = AI(Artificial Intelligence), Runs = R, The in French = LE