Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS

9 Steep tax Breton and I reimposed (10) 11 Mind Lena removing booby trap (4, 4) 12 Cleaner with favourite ragdoll (6) 13 Time of one’s life (8, 4) 14 Gold to complete car (4) 15 Pebbles, English variety (7) 16 Robert has pet lynx (6) 17 Reported fear by determined one on hard ground (5, 5) 18 I am to axe peculiar form of blood poisoning (8) 19 Protuberant swimmer? (8) 21 Duly tear round with grounds for divorce (8) 24 Position taken by striker (8) 26 Taking away leading vehicle (7, 3) 29 Stunned Morag has terrific part (6) 30 Neater hedge cutter? (7) 31 Solomon’s melodious utterance? (4) 32 Ragged boy unleashing thirteen curs (6, 6) 34 Comparison I grin about (6) 35 Cardinals collage I damaged (8) 36 US stiffens resolve with dull and pompous gravity (10)

DOWN

1 Camera’s revelation? (8) 2 Secret member added weight to something written in code (10) 3 Liquid measure taken from religious books (4) 4 Supercilious horseman (8) 5 Read little about having been misused (3-7) 6 Mark needed to include joint (4) 7 Capable of being diverted (8) 8 Lack of fitness in power of holding (10) 10 Cable TV, say, has gravitational force (8) 15 Produce that is not hard to eat? (4, 5) 16 How prizefighter will be skilful? (3, 6) 19 Eccentric got initial case (10) 20 Loud, resonant it became (10) 22 Sentiment about to include leading lady during enrolment (10) 23 French crews had goods (8) 25 Is one girl or another (8) 27 Short time with hesitation and impetus (8) 28 Historian has old coin catalogue (8) 33 To leave the country (4) 34 Remove coarseness, move hothead away (4)