I’m tired and shagged out from a long TLS (1140 by Talos: once again highly recommended by me, and of a similar or slightly lower difficulty level to this puzzle, so you’ve no excuse for avoiding it unless you really hate books) that so I’m not going to tarry long for a change. But thanks to the excellent setter! I will just say in parting that I almost came a cropper at 25ac, on the grounds that AZUL seemed plausibly blue and a Zulu is *almost certainly* some kind of bike… but fortunately another possibility occurred before the fatal submit button could be pressed. How did the rest of you fare today?
Across
1 Vehicle reversing with weight of gems is a chancy enterprise (8)
BACCARAT – CAB [vehicle] reversing with CARAT [weight of gems]
9 Coarse stuff witch squeezed into powder (8)
ROUGHAGE – HAG [witch] squeezed into ROUGE [powder]
10 Not that good a place of entertainment (4)
FAIR – double definition
11 Fond creature struggling in race (4,2,6)
TOUR DE FRANCE – (FOND CREATURE*)
13 Ad-lib regularly about keeping pet (6)
GERBIL – hidden reverse in {ad-}LIB REG{ularly}
14 Close up part of church on Hebridean island (8)
COLLAPSE – APSE [part of church] on COLL [Hebridean island]
15 Stationary traffic at main road around island (7)
JAMAICA – JAM [stationary traffic] at A1 [main road] + CA [around]
16 Short rope network, a way to catch one (7)
LANIARD – LAN A RD [network | a | way] “to catch” I [one]
20 The London Eye? (5,3)
MINCE PIE – cryptic definition; “mince pie” being Cockney rhyming slang for an eye
22 Losing energy, predator is in waterway (6)
TIGRIS – TIG{E}R [“losing energy”, predator] + IS
23 One trying to hear what deciduous tree is misses the start (12)
EAVESDROPPER – A deciduous tree being a LEAVES-DROPPER, remove the first letter.
25 Finish off a sort of bike in pale blue (4)
AQUA – A QUAD being a sort of bike, take away the last letter
26 Keeping son away from jail, taking advantage of revolution (8)
UPRISING – PRI{son} [“son away from” jail] kept by USING [taking advantage of]
27 Endures travelling, and departs for Split (8)
SUNDERED – (ENDURES*) + D [departs]
Down
2 Hate a man becoming this? (8)
ANATHEMA – (HATE A MAN*), semi-&lit
3 No restrictions here as church is set in converted tabernacle (5,7)
CARTE BLANCHE – CH [church] set in (TABERNACLE*)
4 Bar shut by priest in Catholic Venice once, say (8)
REPUBLIC – PUB [bar] “shut by” ELI [priest] in R.C. [Catholic]
5 Defame jazz function in speech (7)
TRADUCE – TRAD [jazz] + homophone of USE [function “in speech”]
6 Coarse fabric no use with felt in the middle (6)
DUFFEL – DUFF [no use] + {f}EL{t}
7 Hand on tradition, ultimately giving pledge (4)
PAWN – PAW [hand] on {traditio}N
8 So-called priest has to tear round all the time (8)
REVEREND – REND [to tear] round EVER [all the time]
12 Hymn sensational cricketer (7,5)
AMAZING GRACE – AMAZING [sensational] + GRACE [cricketer W.G.]
15 Started from chair, appearing arrogant (6,2)
JUMPED UP – double def
17 Presumably favouring genuine short hymn (8)
ANTIPHON – ANTI PHONY would be “presumably favouring genuine”; dock the last letter
18 Don’t agree, being around at home, to make another brew? (8)
REINFUSE – REFUSE [don’t agree], being around IN [at home]
19 Take ages, having small fits (7)
BELONGS – BE LONG [take ages], having S [small]
21 Language of particular concern heard (6)
PIDGIN – homophone of PIGEON, which I did not previously know means: “a person’s particular responsibility or business”
24 Manage to avoid missing a green (4)
VERT – {a}VERT [manage to avoid “missing a”]
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