Jamaica Gleaner

Standard two-in-one Cryptic Puzzle

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ACROSS

9 Regarding the condition of, exaggerate (9)

10 Plus I’m travelling in one without having planned to (2,7)

12 Just for show (4)

13 Renounce, when you surrender (4,2) 14 Having us dress when the siren goes off. It’s early (7)

15 Not wanting to let a cult move in to occupy it (9)

17 He’s responsibl­e for the dispossess­ion (9)

18 The attack and capture of (7)

19 The woman who got the hat squashed by a case (6)

20 See the star turn (4)

23 Calm once they had got themselves together (9)

25 Mad that one had authentica­ted it? (9) 26 Nick, for instance, is a man’s name (4) 27 Happy to shade again. It was too bright (6)

29 Have the lady report on the whole thing (7)

32 Yellow roses are not (9)

34 Totally democratic, as schools never are (9)

35 The insects are let loose among other insects (7)

36 There are rules for determinin­g just what it is (6)

37 A girl few have time for (4)

38 The greatest circulator­s of banknotes will do so (9) 39 Maybe getting a char, lashing out when in the money! (9)

DOWN

1 Says it’s true about the business studies (8)

2 The murderer in the soap? (6,6) 3 With the rain pouring, forced to go outside and get soaked (8)

4 Not bad with clothes on (6)

5 The full fifty enter to take part in (8) 6 Rush to get a drink – and a humdinger it is! (10)

7 Taking pains to cook the child healthy food (7)

8 Like the household name who made whoopee? (10)

11 Many songs. ‘Home on the Range’, is one of them (5)

16 They are why there’s a U in ‘luggage’ (6) 19 The sun now is low (3) 21 To a soldier, denotes unearned income (7,5)

22 Many are different when the tail’s docked (6)

23 Happens when the ship changes course (5,5)

24 What Marks and Spencer did when they got together? (6,4)

25 Fish do get caught by rising (3)

28 Set about, therefore, getting an instrument (8)

29 Splashes the fighters with? (8)

30 Try to eradicate the smears from the material (8)

31 Say in your case you have nothing to hide (7)

33 The clumsy article about prison is returned (5)

34 Stick a coin in to get something to eat (6)

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