The Sunday Crossword No 3271, Sunday 10 Sep 2023

ACROSS

1   Demands and obtains kiss in ultimately lamentable performances (6) EXACTS {X} in {l...lE}{ACTS}

4   The red flag or The Stars and Stripes Forever? (8) STANDARD [DD]

9   Toiler you picture inputting something thunderously, primarily? (6) TYPIST Acrostic Semi&l;it

10 Celebrated audibly in multiple flights (8) STOREYED (~storyed)

11 Victorian cuisine: scoff a kind of dove, very excited (4,6,4) MOCK TURTLE SOUP {MOCK}{TURTLE}{SO}{UP}

13 'Athirst' regularly rejected, being archaic: that's agreed (3) TIS aThIrSt

15 Brigade, the unruly kind (3-7) BIG-HEARTED {BRIGADE+THE}*

18 Endlessly devour exotic tea that's excellent (10) CONSUMMATE {CONSUMe}{MATE} 

19 English getting runs? One, for a long stretch (3) ERA {E}{R}{A}

20 Out of Sellotape now, all of a sudden (2,3,4,5)  AT ONE FELL SWOOP {OF+SELLOTAPE+NOW}* 

24 Alpinist's regrettable lack of control (8) TAIL SPIN*

25 Socialist in Caracas: Trotskyist? (6) CASTRO [T]

26 An absent-minded shopper might be this vacant (8) LISTLESS {LIST LESS}

27 Read third letter aloud depicting Biblical impediment (3,3) RED SEA (~read c)

DOWN

1   Guess teatime's off? (8) ESTIMATE*

2   When computer's overwhelming Everyman's a kind of jelly (5) ASPIC {AS}{P{I}C}

3   Cricket match on TV: fourth of batsmen in experimental gear (4,5) TEST TUBES {TEST}{TUBE}{batSmen} 

5   Blockbuster, tall tale with orc, rebooted (5,6) TOTAL RECALL {TALL+TALE+ORC}*

6   Invaders laying waste to Australian navy: they're expected (5) NORMS NORManS

7   See our way to resort? Don't worry (2,3,4) AS YOU WERE {SEE+OUR+WAY}* 

8   Two posters stuck up displaying avant-garde art (4) DADA {AD<=}{AD<=}

12 Music and cakes for guttersnipes (11) RAGAMUFFINS {RAGA}{MUFFINS}

14 Charmers, ones that are often fruity (9) SMOOTHIES [DD]

16 Once again enthral, seeing cabbages pruned and half of fragrant sprigs (2-7) RE-ENSLAVE {gREENS}{LAVEnder}

17 Chart with an old record climbing: it's Spanish (8) PAMPLONA  {AN+O+LP}{MAP}<=

21 A plan's arranged, not initially paying through the nose (5) NASAL {A+pLANS}*

22 Swears, finding piece of haggis in porridge earlier (5) OATHS {OAT{Ha...s}S}What's the role of 'EARLIER'?

23 To some extent get along with other people (2,2) ET AL [T]

Reference List

Kiss = X, Very = SO, Excited = UP, English = E, Runs = R, Australian = A, Navy = N, Old = O, Record = LP(Long Play)

No 13966, Saturday 09 Sep 2023, Incognito

ACROSS

8   Father's anger (4) SIRE {S}{IRE}

9   Boy has longing for female animal (5) BITCH {B}{ITCH}

10 Land in middle of water? Somewhat misleading... (4) ISLE [T]

11 Carrying processed weed in ship for some Europeans (6) SWEDES {S{WEED*}S}

12 Began including learner. Surprised? (8) STARTLED {START{L}ED}

13 Taking part of lunch as tea is indecent (8) UNCHASTE [T]

15 Sudden's put bar in a mess (6) ABRUPT*

17 Wail, "Tag is destroyed by bird" (7) WAGTAIL*

19 Go and exercise after putting note in ATM (7) ATTEMPT {PT}<=>{A{T{TE}M}

22 John (in England) gets a dog, for example (6) CANINE {CAN}{IN}{E}

24 Jerkily nods away in these times (8) NOWADAYS*

26 Hen traps laid out for animals (8) PANTHERS* 

28 Know Leonard's back in the doghouse (6) KENNEL {KEN}{LEN<=}

30 Satellite's rings mentioned in a couple of consecutive letters (4) MOON {OO} in {MN}

31 Good precipitation results in edible seed (5) GRAIN {G}{RAIN}

32 Orient every article supplied together, for starters (4) EAST Acrostic

DOWN

1   See and compete with West (4) VIEW {VIE}{W}

2   Cause of violent death around Japanese ruler dropping weapon? (8) HEADSHOT {DEATH*} over {SHOgun}

3   Sailor employs swear words (6) ABUSES {AB}{USES}

4   Hid leaders of the African state in barn (7) STASHED {S{The}{Af...n}{St..e}HED}

5   Bird badly hates nap (8) PHEASANT*

6   Illuminated the extraordinary relic initially seen in garbage (6) LITTER {LIT}{The}{Ex...y}{Re..c}

7   Sad and tailless bull runs around with last piece of rope (4) BLUE {BULl}*{ropE}

14 Animal kept in many a laboratory (5) NYALA  [T]

16 Yup, rejected! Including parish priest's young animal (5) PUPPY {YUP}<= over {PP}

18 Big scree movement may result in shipping hazards (8) ICEBERGS* 

20 Imperil aim with ire (8) ENDANGER {END}{ANGER}

21 Rare ulna is broken and scattered around American university (7) UNUSUAL {ULNA}* over {US}{U}

23 Mean Indian nurse (6) INTEND {IN}{TEND}

25 Rouses woman with crawling snake (6) WAKENS {W}{SNAKE}*

27 Try wearing silver to get full of intense excitement! (4) AGOG {A{GO}G}

29 Eating Asian spicy yam for starters is not difficult (4) EASY Acrostic

Reference List

Boy = B, Ship = SS, Learner = L, Exercise = PT, Note = TE, England = E, Good = G, West = W, Sailor = AB, Parish priest = PP, University = U, Woman = W

Special, Sunday 10 Mar 2019, K Koteswar Rao

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
7   Troubled Rhodesia is saving expression of shock (2,4)
8   It’s a challenge to discount victory for force in aberration (8)
9   Do they have the power to kill pain? Yes and no, maybe(8)
10 They write in short about saints having unique ascent (6)
11 Wife of Odysseus demolishes compound to run away (5)
12 Express – logic gate sunk in river (6)
14 Come safely at difficult time when mother earth wets badly (7,3,5)
17 Shake a leg to non-stop music. (6)
18 From the very beginning, honest and beardless (2,3)
22 Unruly mob is surrounded by tom in war (6)
23 OK, keyed nothing in order of acceptance (4,4)
24 Test intervals raised? My bad! (8)
25 Satellite company is without friends, without elevation (6)

DOWN
1   Get drone help to test the kidney function (6,3)
2   Take-off, but stop to get drink (4-2)
3   Soft line of practical joke (5)
4   Horse at sea (8)
5   It's legal right of each section to waste gas (8)
6   Atishoo – It’s not for cold (5)
8   Discussions cause stress to India (13)
13 It is infuriating to see poor King V in trouble (9)
15 Rigged ballot? Indeed heartless chests! (8)
16 Gate hid strangely hypothetical person not lasting for long time (5,3)
19 Corporal cover up owned by the kid (6)
20 One in swimming pool has disease (5)
21 Figure out, drop-dead, to be neck and neck (5)

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No 2674, Sunday 19 Feb 12

ACROSS
1   - Lying down in middle of boulevard after drink (6) - SUPINE {SUP}{IN}{E}
4   - In which one may see Odette boast about the French leading English (4,4) - SWAN LAKE {SWAN {LA}K}{E}
10 - Girl cuddling boy in a state (9) - LOUISIANA {LOUIS{IAN}A}
11 - Clear away thatch aloft (3,2) - MOP UP {MOP} {UP}
12 - Cat, say, brought back after search (7) - SCOURGE {SCOUR}{GE<-}

13 - Hornblower's short speech after end of clash (7) - HORATIO {H}{ORATIOn}
14 - Suspicious transaction with him, a republican? (14) - ANTIMONARCHIST {TRANSACTION+HIM}*
17 - Said of a gunslinger pulling a fast one? (5,2,3,4) - QUICK ON THE DRAW [CD]
21 - Drank one given by doctor, one by bunk (7) - IMBIBED {I}{MB}{I}{BED}
22 - Court finally presented with motive for act of betrayal (7) - TREASON {T}{REASON}
24 - Fuss about a single step in a series (5) - STAIR {ST{A}IR}
25 - Complete change of opinion concerning fellow expert (5-4) - ABOUT-FACE {ABOUT}-{F}{ACE}
26 - Provide forceful evidence against the Italian, Italian arrested by pair (8) - MILITATE {M{IL}{IT}ATE}
27 - Is worried about small son getting pet (6) - CARESS {CARES}{S}
DOWN
1   - Willy Loman? Name lass involved (8) - SALESMAN*
2   - Roman god in place, cast out (5) - PLUTO {PL}{OUT*}
3   - Quack remedy in no way unusual (7) - NOSTRUM {NO}{ST}{RUM}
5   - Around northern tip of region, one state with a new meteorological facility (7,7) - WEATHER STATION {WEATHE{R} NSTATION*}
6   - Chief magistrate upset about demo (7) - NOMARCH {NO}{MARCH} Connection between 'on' and magistrate not clear
7   - Inordinate praise about favourite hors d'oeuvre (9) - APPETISER {AP{PET}ISER*}
8   - Use Forster device? (6) - EMPLOY {E.M.}{PLOY} My COD
9   - Respond humorously to fool getting comfortable role? (4,2,4,4) - TAKE IN GOOD PART {TAKE IN} {GOOD} {PART}
15 - Computer image of distressed lamb in hut (9) - THUMBNAIL*
16 - Trendy types, carollers surrounding wife (8) - SWINGERS {S{W}INGERS}
18 - Jazz fan about to reveal what goes on in nightclub? (7) - CABARET {CA{BARE}T}
19 - Choose artist showing a complex character (7) - ELECTRA {ELECT}{RA}
20 - Turn down quantity of Chinese food (3,3) - DIM SUM {DIM} {SUM}

23 - Small girl gets fish (5) - SKATE {S}{KATE}

No 10389, Saturday 18 Feb 12, Sankalak

ACROSS

1   - Capital with arcane British construction (8) - CANBERRA {ARCANE+BR}*

5   - Insulted junior pressman returns escorted by a senior one (6) - ABUSED {A}{BUS<-}{ED}

10 - It's about roaming, but being lost, in ancient city (5) - OSTIA {ITS+AbOut}*

11 - Light made from lamb pelt, a curiosity (5,4) - TABLE LAMP*

12 - Charming suitor, almost loaded, carries note (9) - BEAUTIFUL {BEAU}{TI}{FULl}

13 - Rapid writer (5) - STENO [CD] (Correction - SWIFT [DD] - See comments)

14 - The measure of a monarch (5) - RULER [DD]

16 - Tricked by a trap in the finish (8) - ENSNARED {EN{SNARE}D}

18 - Countermeasure against spot beginning to erupt (8) - ANTIDOTE {ANTI}{DOT}{E}

20 - Teams which may be taken to show support (5) - SIDES [DD]

24 - Conservative girl's bloomer (5) - CANNA {C}{ANNA}

25 - A cover, say, strong and ready for use (9) - AVAILABLE {A}{(~veil)VAIL}{ABLE}

27 - Messenger gets her good brain working (9) - HARBINGER {HER+G+BRAIN}*

28 - A recess for Henry, pleasant all around (5) - NICHE {NIC{H}E}

29 - Express sorrow about the final word accepted by the left (6) - LAMENT {L{AMEN}T}

30 - Like the sky on a cloudy night, lacking big players (8) - STARLESS [DD]

DOWN

1   - Tool used in a cold fight over prohibition (7) - CROWBAR {C}{ROW}{BAR}

2   - A game to catch everyone around Belgium (7) - NETBALL {NET}{B}{ALL}

3   - One-time English law that was just right (5) - EXACT {EX}{ACT}

4   - Formally approve agreement to please one failing to start (6) - RATIFY gRATIFY

6   - Prayers for the happiness of British author in the Bahamas (9) - BLESSINGS {B{LESSING}S}

7   - Providing better shelter from heat could be more dishonest (7) - SHADIER [DD]

8   - Appointed to be placed in action (7) - DEPUTED {DE{PUT}ED}

9   - Mollusc found by sailor by himself (7) - ABALONE {AB}{ALONE}

15 - Help raised in allowance for nuclear fallout (9) - RADIATION {RA{DIA<-}TION}

17 - Volunteer force in retreat, big, is free and threatening (2,5) - AT LARGE {AT<-} {LARGE}

18 - Spirit of business head office besieged by everyone (7) - ALCOHOL {AL{CO}{HO}L}

19 - A puzzle for some Spartan grammarians (7) - TANGRAM [T]

21 - A beadle caught slipping into total disorder (7) - DEBACLE {BEADLE+C}*

22 - They are searching — for a marine cause of trouble, by the sound of it (7) - SEEKERS (~sea){SEE}{KERS}(~curse)

23 - Growing underground, it causes the motor to deteriorate (6) - CARROT {CAR}{ROT}

26 - He shuns company but brings unity between sides (5) - LONER {L{ONE}R}

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No 2672, Sunday 05 Feb 12

ACROSS
1   - Precedent in case (7) - EXAMPLE [CD]
5   - Hounds from British estate (7) - BASSETS {B}{ASSETS}
9   - List at home about family (7) - INCLINE {IN}{C}{LINE}
10 - Short argument with the French about superior kitchen tool (7) - SPATULA {SPAT}{U}{LA}
11 - Veteran worried about extremely lazy Goldeneye character (9) - TREVELYAN {TREVE{LazY}AN*}
12 - Moisten, while cooking, some lamb (a steak) (5) - BASTE [T]
14 - Ham-fisted lad may, developing film (3,6,6) - THE ADDAMS FAMILY*
16 - What it may do if the weather's beastly? (4,4,3,4) - RAIN CATS AND DOGS [CD]
17 - Slowed down when in ebbing river (5) - EASED {E{AS}ED<-}
18 - What could make one lie square? (9) - EQUALISER*
21 - End up in revolution abroad (4,3) - TURN OUT {TURN} {OUT}
23 - Religious glibness in meeting Judge disregarded (7) - UNCTION  jUNCTION
24 - Sharp reply about accepting one appointment (7) - RIPOSTE {R{I}{POST}E}
25 - Back trouble in so tempestuous a love affair (7) - LIASION {LIA<-}{ISON*}
DOWN
1   - See English policeman over court order (5) - EDICT {E}{DI}{CT}
2   - Chief antagonists cheer as mine explodes (11) - ARCHENEMIES*
3   - Chief's brief (5) - PRIME [DD]
4   - Setter barking at three in a Liverpool playhouse (8,7) - EVERYMAN THEATRE {EVERYMAN} {THEATRE*} Everyman being the setter of this CW in the Guardian.
5   - Concern when general spells out Asquith's policy in the early days of World War I? (8,2,5) - BUSINESS AS USUAL {BUSINESS} {AS} {USUAL}
6   - Celebrity to get on the right side (9) - STARBOARD {STAR}{BOARD}
7   - Bird exhibited in Science Museum (3) - EMU [T]
8   - Two moccasins, say, either side of gumshoe (5,4) - SNAKE EYES {SNAKE {EYE}S}
13 - Children's outfits from Russia - lost, I suspect (6,5) - SAILOR SUITS*

14 - Nonsense written about wise counsellor, a tease (9) - TORMENTOR {TOR<-}{MENTOR}
15 - Losing leaves, pair, American, after first of December (9) - DECIDUOUS  {DEC}{1}{DUO}{US}
19 - Synthetic fabric left Cary uncomfortable (5) - LYCRA {L}{YCRA*}
20 - Arrest knight in bankruptcy (3,2) - RUN IN {RU{N} IN}
22 - Pounding music (3) - RAP [DD]

No 10377, Saturday 04 Feb 12, Buzzer

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ACROSS

9   - Art of a swindler lacking in morals (7) - SCIENCE conSCIENCE

10 - Cock-a-hoop making way for one merrymaking binge (7) - ROISTER {RO(-o+i)ISTER} My COD

11 - Equines — pony, stallion or mare, all seen primarily in a racecourse (5) - EPSOM {E}{P}{S}{O}{M}

12 - Political system in Goa, richly corrupt (9) - OLIGARCHY*

13 - One dashing one dashing funny funny writer (5,4) - OGDEN NASH {ONE DASHiNG}*

14 - Be mad or be astonished about love (2,3) - GO APE {G{O} APE}

15 - Bacchanalia of French, British and also German (7) - DEBAUCH {BE}{B}{AUCH}

17 - Rants from Buzzer's old wife, silly at first (7) - BELLOWS {BELL}{O}{W}{S}

19 - Stop notices say (5) - CEASE (~sees)

20 - Neighbourhood watch outcome? (5,4) - LOCAL TIME [CD]

22 - Be rational like this clue (4,5) - MAKE SENSE [CD]

24 - Sharp pain (5) - SMART [DD]

25 - Working barista, a student of Middle Eastern culture (7) - ARABIST*

26 - Rich and pompous lie on it regularly (7) - OPULENT pOmPoUs LiE oN iT

DOWN

1   - A drug means body in heaven (8) - ASTEROID {A}{STEROID}

2   - Lost in fog reportedly (6) - MISSED (~mist)

3   - Police state he is above the law (3-3,4) - ONE-MAN RULE {ONE-MAN} {RULE}

4   - Path once crossed to reach an empty tomb (8) - CENOTAPH*

5   - Warrant to arrest a husband's ghost (6) - WRAITH {WR{A}IT}{H}

6   - Stradivarius essentially for a performer (4) - DIVA straDIVArius

7   - Disconnected. Speech. Like. This. (8) - STACCATO [CD]

8   - Sock pattern is oddly gray, evenly blue (6) - ARGYLE {GRAY*}{bLuE}

14 - Wolverine dubbed in Telugu? LOL! us customers… (4,6) - GULO LUSCUS [T]

16 - … some of us find it a bad sign (5,3) - BLACK CAT [CD]

17 - Non-union man (8) - BACHELOR [CD]

18 - See an art gallery under design (8) - SPECTATE {SPEC}{TATE}

19 - Groom a model for engagement (6) - COMBAT {COMB}{A}{T}

20 - Measure duration of stay (6) - LENGTH [DD]

21 - Girl in adventurous abseil (6) - ISABEL*

23 - Pronounced melancholy engulfs one (4) - SAID {SA{I}D}

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