CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Courage to get small tree (5) 5 Move into underwear (5)

9 Tin from

Tuscany (3) 10 Meeting to cook tacos (5) 11 Croat turned performer (5) 12 Now employees have to be obliged (3) 13 Shelter from sleet (3)

14 Won over for the present (3) 16 People of Armenia (3)

18 Get comfortable at home with the French (6) 21 Thus get attorney a drink (4)

23 Profit from a gin cocktail (4) 26 Most remorseful about shaking (6) 29 Bemused with creature (3)

31 Raw material from forest (3) 32 Firm with new prisoner (3) 34 Unprepared for war breaking out (3) 36 Staring at a torn page (5) 37 A shade naive (5) 38 Catch in one trap (3) 39 Woman finds queen transparent (5) 40 Sent out with European kids (5)

DOWN

1 Climbs to get fishy plates (6) 2 Speed puts pressure on expert (4) 3 At home, nurse is mean (6) 4 Listeners have new merits (5) 5 Expression slow to spread around clubs (5) 6 Question the method? (3) 7 Time to order something (4) 8 Afterwards from both ends (4) 15 Animal less cold in the

East End (5) 17 Delighted with name (3)

19 Devour in one attempt (3)

20 The golfer’s conceit (3)

22 Old husband got married with some resistance (3) 24 Hidden a crane away (6)

25 Sonnet performed by ensembles (6) 27 Argumentative sportsman (5) 28 Intended to have meagre time (5) 29 Encourages farm produce (4) 30 Surgeon’s desire (4)

33 Honest old writer (4)

35 Is more than one? (3)

Solutions in Monday’s Irish Daily Mirror