All aspiring setters need to take a cue from Sankalak on how to make a CW enjoyable with no need for tearing one's hair out.
ACROSS
1 Depressed by growth on face,
he killed his wives (9)
BLUEBEARD {BLUE}{BEARD}
5 Taunts but, after losing time, relaxes (5) EASES tEASES
8 Such a crossword cannot be solved (8) CLUELESS [CD]
9 University officer covers business for church official (6) DEACON {DEA{CO}N}
11
A plant found in Gal
lup in season (5)
LUPIN [T]
12 One who cannot sleep late? (5,4) EARLY BIRD [CD]
13 A number indulge in horseplay in return for a
stone (6)
GARNET {GAR}{NET}<=
14 Failure to follow suit in U.S. city — pawnbroker loses fifty (8) RENOUNCE {RENO}{UNClE}
16
The writing on the wall for the German earl, healthy,
independent (8)
GRAFFITI {GRAF}{FIT}{I}
18 Master, dropped, got crushed (6) MASHED {MA}{SHED}
22 What does GOI attain, however, in a stir (9) AGITATION*
24 Would
he burn, perhaps, for a
movie? (3,3)
BEN HUR* Will never forget the Chariot races.
25
Frogs and such but no
reptile in
imitable,
happier collection (8)
AMPHIBIA {IMI
tAB
le HAP
pier}*
26
Dickensian chap who lost
time in a long, tiring walk (5)
RUDGE tRUDGE
27
A right swimmer
to start
natating in
famous cemetery (9)
ARLINGTON {A}{R}{LING}{TO}{N}
DOWN
1 Reverse the record of arrears of work (7) BACKLOG {BACK}{LOG}
2 He supplants the Shylock with a penny (7) USURPER {USUR{P}ER}
3 Libra in creation shows how living beings stay in equilibrium (7,2,6) BALANCE OF NATURE {BALANCE} {OF NATURE}
4 The response of a royal covering doctored news (6) ANSWER {A}{NEWS*}{R}
5 From time to time the new envoy, warned, went crazy (5,3,3,4) EVERY NOW AND THEN {THE+N+ENVOY+WARNED}*
6 Part seen in cutting up a body when girl's absent (7) SECTION diSECTION
7 How the House might be adjourned ? (4,3) SINE DIE [E]
10 Made an effort to be tested (5) TRIED [DD]
15 A
mug, note, received in wrongdoing (5)
STEIN {S{TE}IN}
16 British barge attacked by one who would seize it (7) GRABBER {BR+BARGE}*
17 Old boxer meeting
old Red leader in retreat,
got together (7)
ALIGNED {ALI}{GNED<=}
19 Henry with one word of protest about
fish (7)
HALIBUT {HAL}{1}{BUT}
20
Contempt for
German standard encompassing
Aids perhaps (7)
DISDAIN {DI{AIDS*}N}
21 Man is one (6) ANIMAL [GK]
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