The Sunday Crossword No. 3144

April 03, 2021 04:37 pm | Updated 04:37 pm IST

Across

1 Dancing will get you prone with hip replacement (8)

5 Holy man, righteous, flips, goes bananas (6)

10 I see diving bird returning to very cold water (7)

11 Poor misguided fool in the lead somewhere in Japan (7)

12 Because of odour, eat cod only now and then (3,2)

13 Van is seen moving with simplicity (9)

14 Bread boxes? (4,8)

18 Like Enid Blyton vis-à-vis tiny blonde? (12)

21 Earl finally – finally! – has estate ringed by 52 hedges (9)

23 Perhaps Muscat resident will be back soon (5)

24 Productive government losing power, irritating (7)

25 Oddly, drew a little shrine; close to flock, highest screen displaying icons (7)

26 Provokes some toilet-roll shortages (6)

27 We’re prepared to go back to the old you, once a little delightful innocent (4-4)

Down

1 Difficult, love, to get over Everyman’s coiffure (6)

2 Staggered, seeing fish in merlot, perhaps (6)

3 Prehistoric beast – monster – spotted, in reports (9)

4 In impeded light, playing game (3-2-3-6)

6 Regularly fry up pieces of bread in Asia (5)

7 Spooner’s expressed anti-Scandinavian policy as radio programming (5-3)

8 Director adding touch of silliness to film’s music before vacuous scene (8)

9 If fat, side salad could make you healthy (2,3,2,1,6)

15 He and I sense lobby will be evacuated in an awful way (9)

16 Riotous lady, topless, drunk after sunrise (8)

17 Primarily bubbly, a beverage your child is nowadays offered? (8)

19 Little Morgan trying to get support (6)

20 Bit hurried (6)

22 Pollarding allowed – that’s terrible (5)

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