The Sunday Crossword No. 3138

February 20, 2021 04:36 pm | Updated 04:36 pm IST

Across

1 Dire moments represented in Chaplin classic? (6,5)

9 Every now and then, organist has dairy dish (5)

10 ‘Listen: I get votes. Listen: “masses”’ ... (3,6)

11 ... empower crazy nut as leader? Indefensible (9)

12 Some Hindu calendar concerning a nobleman (5)

13 Student, not so clean, loses money, gets more lean (7)

15 Nowadays, character from Nato goes around boasting (7)

17 Fried horse contains a little taste of umami (7)

19 Book of little weight to cause injury (7)

21 You Trekkies suppress too much (5)

23 Campanologist feigned bad mood (9)

25 Low-quality Spanish wine consumed by personnel (5-4)

26 Resembling gold. Containing uranium. Shame (5)

27 Household appliance increasingly warped as animals found inside (6-5)

Down

1 In France, Everyman gathers up water (7)

2 With end removed, India paper rolled into tube (9)

3 Expressions of frustration and uncertainty arising in health facility (5)

4 Something seen in bathroom; big tale to unfold (6,3)

5 Pet noisily bellowed (5)

6 Sail cut off somewhere in the W. Indies (2,5)

7 Looks for problems, finding Russian cash, heroin, cocaine’s all around (13)

8 I’ll buy soot for reunion; make the most of it (4,4,5)

14 Where Lenin may be seen as bloody bourgeois (3,6)

16 In the morning, a spirit loudly evacuated, causing astonishment (9)

18 Finally, John Woo put reboots all in the past (2,2,3)

20 Less decisive omnivore, not very prone to change (7)

22 Primarily, essentially, that habitual organisational spirit? (5)

24 In advance, or yet to come? (5)

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