Toughie 3506

Toughie  No 3506 by Kcit

Hints and Tips by crypticsue

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The temperature might have dropped fourteen degrees since yesterday evening but inside the house, it is still very hot, so I am thankful that this extremely wordy crossword (there wasn’t much room left on the paper to write in the parsings)  was relatively easy to parse and hint, so that I could get back outside into the breeze

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Across
1a           Rebellions in film about disruption  Germany stops (5,1’4)
COUPS D’ETAT  A layer or covering (film) goes ‘about’ a disruption or disturbance into which is inserted (stops) the IVR Code for Germany

6a           Scratching head, dispose of irritation(4)
ITCH  Remove the first letter (scratching head) of a slang word meaning to get rid of

9a           A quirk, ignoring South Island jaggedness  (10)
ANGULARITY A (from the clue) and a quirk ignoring the abbreviations for South and Island at the start of the word

10a         Several parties back horse, putting in  pounds (4)
BLOC A reversed (back) strong horse into which is inserted the abbreviation for Pound Sterling

12a         Delegate incites legislators to ignore a  European in singular issue?(12)
SPOKESPERSON  Part of a verb meaning incites and some legislators in the House of Lords without one of the abbreviations for European,  inserted into one male child (singular issue)

15a         Traditional stories about a hospital in  Pakistani city (6)
LAHORE Traditional stories go ‘about’ A (from the clue) and the abbreviation for Hospital

16a         Standard right-winger, ignoring leader,  receiving money from Arab country (8)
ORDINARY  Remove the first letter (ignoring leader) from an informal way of referring to someone with right-wing political views and insert some currency used in Arab countries

18a         Entertainment not imagined to suppress  energy associated with death (8)
FUNEREAL Pleasure or entertainment and not imagined, the latter ‘suppressing’ the symbol for Energy

19a         A car reversed on beginning to move the smallest distances? (6)
MINIMA A reversal of A (from the clue) and a small car go on or after the first letter (beginning) of Move

21a         Laugh about possessing male toiletry (7,5)
SHAVING CREAM A shrill laugh goes about a synonym for possessing

24a         Charged material covering source of rare  item on course (4)
IRON  An electrically charged particle ‘covering’ the first letter (source) of Rare

25a         Judge restricting northern newspaper, one  offering a backward look (4,6)
WING MIRROR  A slang name for a judge ‘restricting’ the abbreviation for Northern, followed by the name of our tabloid newspapers

26a         English critical comment set back French  author (4)
GIDE The abbreviation for English and a critical comment reversed (set back)

27a         Physical training in moorland leads to losing  one new Olympic event (10)
HEPTATHLON The abbreviation for Physical Training inserted into barren open land (moorland) followed by the ‘leads’ to Losing One New

Down

1d           Persuade military chief over peace, yielding power … (4)
COAX An abbreviated Commanding Officer (military chief) and the Latin word for peace without (yielding) the symbol for Power

2d           … in removal of rivals? Persuade insistently  (4)
URGE  The ellipsis indicates the need to remove the symbol for Power from a verb meaning to clear of undesirable persons (rivals)

3d           Representation of life and arts around  Amsterdam? Rembrandt’s speciality (4-8)
SELF-PORTRAIT An anagram (representation) of LIFE and ARTS around a town with a harbour such as Amsterdam

4d           Naked, uncovered – regret turning up  shouting this? (6)
EUREKA The inside (uncovered) letters of nAKEd and a verb meaning to regret reversed (turning up)

5d           Music for instrument (not piano) is test  showing skill (8)
ARTISTRY A piece of music for an instrument without the musical abbreviation Piano, IS (from the clue) and a verb meaning to test

7d           Satanic mill mostly abandoned as an  indicator of good luck (10)
TALISMANIC An anagram (abandoned) of most of SATANIC MILl

8d           Arrest after journo snaps leaders of Ealing  Young Conservatives in hired vehicle (7,3)
HACKNEY CAB An informal word meaning to arrest goes after a journalist, and then  the leaders of Ealing Young Conservative are inserted (snaps [up])

11d        One of top four if included in shortened  version of important register (12)
SEMIFINALIST IF (from the clue) inserted into a shortened adjective meaning influential in future development (important) and a register

13d         Focus of casting decisions? Mostly  dubious, in brief (3-7)
FLY-FISHING Most of an informal word meaning dubious inserted into a brief period

14d         Say one’s thoughts: talk rudely about husband in upset couple (5,5)
THINK ALOUD An anagram (rudely) of TALK goes ‘about’ the abbreviation for Husband and IN (from the clue), a reversed couple being added at the end

17d         Hopeful and reasonable about one in care  of Rev?(8)
SANGUINE A synonym for reasonable or rational into which is inserted (about) the Roman numeral for one inserted into a verb meaning to open the throttle (the capital R in Rev being there to mislead)

20d         Contest interrupted by Republican scare  (6)
FRIGHT A contest ‘interrupted’ by the abbreviation for Republican

22d         One drink excluded from initial examination  (4)
ORAL Remove the Roman numeral for one and an alcoholic drink from a synonym for initial

23d         Little bird not previously seen soaring around river (4)
WREN A word meaning not previously seen reversed (soaring) goes ‘around’ the abbreviation for River