The Sunday Crossword No 3332, Sunday 17 Nov 2024

ACROSS

1   Suit as may be worn by wealthy (8) DIAMONDS [DD]

5   Walk – gosh – flipping healthy (4,2) HOOF IT {OOH<=}{FIT}

9   That’s a nit I see – just a bit – get clean! (8) SANITISE [T]

10 Where a waltz started in ‘80s pop hit (6) VIENNA [DD]

11 It spins forward – and backward? (5) ROTOR <=>

13 Studying again, finally, Oscar Wilde: where was his Gaol? (9) REREADING {o..aR}{w..dE}{READING}

15 Climbing down, band pick legal high (4-9) BACK-PEDALLING*

17 Top politicians, decadent French-born set (5-8) FRONT-BENCHERS*

21 Where lands steepen, in shelters, the writer’s going to sleep (at first) (9) HILLSIDES {H{I'LL}{Sl..p}}IDES}

22 In favour of second ad (5) PROMO {PRO}{MO}

23 That man is smothered by right-wing presumption (6) THEORY {T{HE}ORY}

24 Getting to Italy, M. le Président will eat a kind of pasta (8) MACARONI {MAC{A}RON}{I}

26 Primarily, man espousing strange ‘magnetism’ – especially restoratively? (6) MESMER Acrostic &lit

27 Bridled, noise of downpour heard (6,2) REINED IN (~rain din}

DOWN

1   Paint picture of Claude’s crib, expertly ignoring parts (8) DESCRIBE [T]

2   Live-in childminder saving skin … her name? (3) ANN nANNy

3   Rock, passé, cut … (7) OUTCROP {OUT}{CROP}

4   … record by Queen censored having fallen from favour (11) DISCREDITED {DISC}{R}{EDITED}

6   Not fashionable, friendless originally: is Everyman folding? (7) ORIGAMI {ORIGinally}AM{I}

7   Evidence of shark; men doing badly in fishy film (7,4) FINDING NEMO {FIN}{MEN+DOING}*

8   A little faint, wan gynaecologist with nasal tone (6) TWANGY [T]

12 Flatus scent – moved: discretion (11) TACTFULNESS*

14 After components switched, Wills’s missus’s posh car is fun way to get about (6,5) ROLLER SKATE (~kate's roller <=> roller skate}

16 Public schoolboy sheltering second old Soviet (8) ESTONIAN {E{S}TONIAN}

18 With ceremony, keep watch (7) OBSERVE [DD]

19 Naval officer, a little indolent, put in ill-considered catnap (7) CAPTAIN {CAPTA{In...t}N*}

20 Time to go with the Blues? (6) RHYTHM [DD]

25 Peculiar to regularly ignore ‘Howdy-do?’ (3) ODD {hOwDy+Do}

Reference List

Second = MO, Italy = I, Queen = R, Second = S, Will's(Prince William) missus = KATE(Princess of Wales)