The Sunday Crossword No. 3049

Published - May 25, 2019 04:10 pm IST

Across

1 In valley, Ezekiel and others pray, continue (2,4)

4 Sticky end delivered (8)

9 Gasp! A cunning plan! (6)

10 Where, surprisingly, I find song with three words (4,2,2)

12 Primarily: lounge, or lie lazily (4)

13 With head oddly empty, bear reflected in wood, spluttering ‘Huzzah!’ (5-2-3)

15 Play where that carpet’s frayed; sofa’s out of bounds (3,3,4,2)

18 A Catholic grandee, severest for the most part in liturgy, say (3,2,7)

21 Strident Australian on radio: where to buy BBQs? (10)

22 Implausible... but fine (4)

24 Man’s environment is as part of Earth; is running out of time (5,3)

25 Tucking into Bavarian lager, a couple of Germans become louder (6)

26 Romance involving Friends character, most obscene (8)

27 Tone’s set by these two chapters on self-destruction (1,5)

Down

1 Sorry, charge is something applied to your phone (8)

2 British left occupies gutted hotel: major damage to London (3,5)

3 Act with inadequate zeal? (4)

5 Novel and its library readers? (3,9)

6 Committee goes after money; it’s where cuts will be made (10)

7 Missing Latin lover at party, go too far (6)

8 Once liberal, now almost completely reactionary? (6)

11 Film and its originators? (3,9)

14 Again and again, penniless bloke arrives at square dances (3-3-4)

16 Not just any Tory leader in court (3,5)

17 Italian renounced fussy puritanism, being hot under the collar (2,2,4)

19 With fleece surrounding one, being drawn down by gravity? (6)

20 Tenor misses opening of Götterdämmerung, a dotty little thing (6)

23 Revealed in indiscreet circle (4)

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