The Sunday Crossword No 3344, Sunday 09 Feb 2025

13D, 

ACROSS

1   Morph: OK, OK Mr Hart, here we have an artist (4,6) MARK ROTHKO*

6   An idiot yesterday, in a manner of speaking (1,1,1,1) A S A P {A}{SAP}

9   Those choosing prison for Spooner: might they be hampered? (10) PICNICKERS (~nick pickers to picnickers)

10 Storage unit for socks, nip of putrid atmosphere (4) PAIR {Pu..id}{AIR}

11 Used woolly thinking when lacking illumination? (7,5) COUNTED SHEEP [CD]

15 Walk out on salsa band onstage for using a sample (7) ABANDON [T]

16 Evidently clumsy type – and a loafer (7) SLIPPER [DD]

17 Swallowing duck, one checks for poison; I say ‘Cheers!’ (7) TOASTER {T{O}ASTER}

19 Residents x workers? (7) TENANTS {TEN}{ANTS}

20 Sinful American peels back – and out (6,6)  FALLEN ASLEEP {FALLEN}{A}{PEELS<=}

23 I appreciate that German is curt, having unpleasant air (4) DANK {DANKe}

24 Can Guaraní get translated for C. American? (10) NICARAGUAN*

25 It goes well with curry, whichever way you look at it (4) NAAN <=> [CD]

26 ‘Hot location acceptable’ – tiny oriental feline (5,5) HELLO KITTY {HELL}{OK}{ITTY}

DOWN

1   Everyman, having taken on work, to look miserable (4) MOPE {M{OP}E}

2   Dicky and Fatty (4) RICH [DD]

3   Calling for the French? (6,1'4) RAISON D'ETRE [CD]

4   Admitted what the sights may be (5,2) TAKEN IN [DD]

5   Cores – or, reportedly, senior members of what sounds the same? (7) KERNELS (~colonels)

7   Southern facility by river restrained aquatic menace (3,7) SEA SERPENT {S}{EASE}{R}{PENT}

8   Present alternative rendering, albeit parallel – here represents a suitable example, primarily! (10) PARAPHRASE Acrostic &lit

12 Snack recipe concocted in experimental facilities (7,4) SCIENCE PARK*

13 Dinin’ on chocolate eggs, you say, in Steinbeck novel (4,2,4) EAST OF EDEN (~easter feedin'}

14 Film in Almodóvar’s language for the White House (10) CASABLANCA {White House in Spanish = CASA BLANCA}

18 Appreciate fizzy ale, Sire? (7) REALISE*

19 Newspaper exposé showing Archer and friend scratching bottom (4-3) TELL-ALL {TELL}{ALLy}

21 Relative somewhat daunted (4) AUNT [T]

22 Jealousy picked up from leading characters in Nouvelle Vague? (4) ENVY (~No...e ~Va..e}

Reference List

American = A, Work = OP, Southern = S, River = R