The Sunday Crossword No 3335, Sunday 08 Dec 2024

ACROSS

1   When sent to Coventry, one that’s barely seen? (4,6) LADY GODIVA [CD]

6   Train line almost flipped over vehicle (4) CART TRACk<=

9   I miss place in resort: it’s a field (10) SPECIALISM*

10 Growing border husband removed remains a border (4) EDGE hEDGE

12 Liquid lunch with plenty of character? (8,4) ALPHABET SOUP [CD]

15 Side in blue seeing confused voter taken in by English Nationalist … (7) EVERTON {E}{VOTER*}{N}

16 … English Nationalist against adopting promise to be green … (7) ENVIOUS {E}{N}{V{IOU}S}

17 … ignoring some, scan ten Nationalists’ kit receiving signals (7) ANTENNA [T]

19 Deer eating mushroom recoiled, showing blotch (7) SPECKLE {ELK{CEP}S<=}

20 Activated in potion, life that’s everlasting! (8,4) INFINITE LOOP {IN+POTION+LIFE}*

23 Flower girl that may be Hazel (4) IRIS IRISh

24 Not the lead horn player getting renewed energy (6,4) SECOND WIND {SECOND}{WIND}

25 A day after Everyman’s age-old booze (4) MEAD {A}{D}<=>{ME}

26 University becoming independent, raises limits (10) CONSTRICTS CONSTR(-u+i)ICTS

DOWN

1   Reason Titanic captain might think the unthinkable? (4) LISP [Cd] (sink the unsinkable]

2   Thawed, 99 disappearing – a performance (4) DEED DEicED

3   Such a reduction applied to (s)quires? (12)  GUILLOTINING Defintion by example

4   Aquatic being, part of Little Mermaid toy that’s caught? (7) DOLPHIN (~doll fin)

5   Seen as very absurd, runs off (7) VISIBLE {V}{rISIBLE}

7   King overcome by slithering odious boa in stories that aren’t to be read (10) AUDIOBOOKS {ODIOUS+BOA}* over {K}

8   Entered private property: lock abruptly ‘died’ (10) TRESSPASSED {TRESs}{PASSED}

11 R&B musician’s somewhat unchaste view on derrières (6,6) STEVIE WONDER [T]

13 Assuming the worst oddly time-saving (10) NEGATIVISM*

14 Primarily, what encompasses Senegal, Togo alongside fourteen republics (Ivory Coast, also)? (4,6) WEST AFRICA Acrostic &lit

18 Sloppily traced over ‘20s design (3,4) ART DECO {TRACED+O}*

19 Cars that are often seen in Westerns (7) SALOONS [DD]

21 Record changing dash for cash? (4) DISC {D is C (-d+c)CASH}

22 Praiseful verse addressing Archbishop Tutu? (4) ODES {O DES}

Reference List

Husband = H, English = E, Nationalist = N, Against = V, Hazel = H, Day = D, University = U, Independent = I, 99 = IC, Very = V, Runs = R, King = K, Over = O