The Sunday Crossword No 3321, Sunday 25 Aug 2024

ACROSS

1   Departed at the last minute (4) LATE [DD]

3   Clairvoyancy of the Dark Ages? (10) PRESCIENCE [CD]

9   Successfully wear dress that’s not loud (4) ROCK fROCK

10 Infernal class of exercises taking time? Son, they could be positive (5,5) BLOOD TYPES {BLOOD{T}Y}{PE}{S}

11 Puts in a call to Dover? Or Rugby? (7,5) CONTACT SPORT {CONTACTS}{PORT}

15 Ditches storage’s cap; escalates, in part (7) ESCAPES [T]

16 Pacify with a k-kind of pudding (7) APPEASE {A}{P-PEASE}

17 Encourages rising, sets off to go around North (7) LEAVENS }LEAVE{N}S}

19 In Oxford at the outset, intensively study flipping electrical engineer (7) MARCONI {IN}{Ox...d}{CRAM}<=

20 Hotel’s rather fancy – here? (6,6)  HEALTH RESORT* Semi&lit

23 Everyman’s … average. ‘Rank’? That’s too much (10) IMMODERATE {I'M}{MODERATE}

24 When nothing changes if you turn back time? (4) NOON <=>

25 Sum like ‘125 x 8’? (5,5) GRAND TOTAL {125x8=2000} [C&DD]

26 Man, perhaps, in audition the writer’s going to (4) ISLE (~I'll)

DOWN

1   Clear ‘Hello!’ misread in French city (2,8) LA ROCHELLE*

2   Government economist in battered trenchcoat (10) TECHNOCRAT*

4   Tells one that might be Des: About 1? (7) RELATES {RE{LATE}S}

5   Weapon’s deployed, obtaining vegetable (4,3) SNOW PEA*

6   Distribute dodgy enterprises (11) INTERSPERSE*

7   Rear of capuchin monkey? Scruff of the neck (4) NAPE {c...iN}{APE}

8   Otherwise, university in London’s backing English (4) ELSE {LSE}<=>{E}

12 Got arrested (11) APPREHENDED [DD]

13 Stinking drunk, old and amorous (10) MALODOROUS {OLD+AMOROUS}*

14 Struggle in unpicking ancestries (10) RESISTANCE*

18 Some wholesaler, nouveau-riche, somewhere on the Med (7) SALERNO [T]

19 Revered Hindu’s headgear pinched by parent (7) MAHATMA {MA{HAT}MA}

21 Go round with would-be fiancé’s offering (4) RING [DD]

22 Crossword setter’s written up mother’s novel (4) EMMA {ME<=}{MA}

Reference List

Loud = F, Time = T, Son = S, North = N, English = E