The Sunday Crossword No. 3088

February 22, 2020 04:01 pm | Updated 04:01 pm IST

Across

1 President grandly dines, leading to gym session (5-3)

5 Invention that secures part of level crossing (6)

10 Report following that woman’s affair(7)

11 Russia’s banks fiddle endlessly with cases from Italy (7)

12 A little dab at Ikea fabric (5)

13 Dislocated nine noses? Definitely not (2,2,5)

14 Why so blue, kid? Regrettably, it’s the drink (6,6)

18 Uninjured, rare bird almost crashed into something met at high speed (5,7)

21 Recklessly races back for pescatarian’s dish (4,5)

23 Next to west section of church, left a kind of orange (5)

24 Oaf’s to run about, in a way (2,1,4)

25 Opens a French port and sips (to begin with) (7)

26 Shocked? About time to become experienced (6)

27 So splendid (4,4)

Down

1 Ignore eyewitness without hesitation (4.2)

2 Lets out what a Cockney comic does, we’re told (6)  

3 Cask of don drunk with crisps, etc (5,4)

4 Silk pants being laid out as festive treat (4,2,8)

6 Tolkien’s language not hard, reveals the King (5)

7 Colonel ingests oxygen atop headland, showing aplomb (8)  

8 Cartoon character sounded kind of fat (5,3)  

9 A curry, beer cans laid out as festive treat (9.5)

15 Tint with blubber, leading to commotion (3,3,3)

16 Intimidate and turn spy with touch (5,3)

17 Alcoholic aficionado on vacation, scoundrel’s drinking orangey liqueurs (8)

19 Clever? Solomon? To some extent? To a huge extent! (4,2)

20 Miss getting into album? Shut up (6)

22 What goes in mulled wine? Bit of cinnamon, dear (5)

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