The Sunday Crossword No. 3111

August 01, 2020 04:44 pm | Updated 04:44 pm IST

Across

1 ‘Unit of energy’? … ‘inert gas’? … technical gibberish (6)

4 Trump’s, perhaps, after getting elected: ‘Bigly!’ (2,6)

9 They loathe seeing radiators losing energy (6)

10 Perhaps pen letters in Athens describing ‘the empty pasty’ (4,4)

12 Revolutionary in charge, suppressing Polish: sweet (8)

13 Lager, one repeatedly called for by Brando (6)

15 Found the goat striving to run amok (3,3,2,4)

18 Beast that’s not spotted in the wild, clapboard elk (5,7)

21 Chorale not about to be arranged for Asian city (6)

22 Italian physicist, with anger, becomes prolific essayist (8)

24 Waiting, backed up; EU repeatedly getting into N. Ireland question; good! (8)

25 Brief pint, drinking ‘Queen & Country’ (6)

26 Yech! I’d nastily consume beasts like anteaters (8)

27 What drug pusher might say at entrance: ‘Sweet dreams’ (6)

Down

1 Avant-gardist seen in can, euphemistically (prison) (4,4)

2 Perhaps gîtes in the Dordogne to be overrun with vermin (8)

3 Novel, one that’s familiar to you and Everyman (3,6,6)

5 Not a single American displays common sense (4)

6 Blasted horns, portent before goal for team (7,5,3)

7 Primarily, delay a while, delay, loiter endlessly? (6)

8 Arrangement with cheap horn for Spooner (6)

11 Desired broccoli, essentially producing wind (7)

14 Most ayatollahs brought up a vegetable (7)

16 Largely unadorned little Italian church? Actually, for starters, it’s anything but! (8)

17 Head after comic figure, sloth (8)

19 It commemorates an unpleasant mixture of bacteria and saliva (6)

20 Beat with run in the silence (6)

23 Ancient empire where bionic man oddly not seen (4)

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