CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
4 Politician pursuing rotten curs that steal fruit (6)
7 An artist’s personal view (8)
8 Have a go at Spike? (6)
10 They sidle around, some being fiddlers (5)
13 One of those spent in Rome, possibly (4)
14 Fearless aristocrat? (4)
15 One generally helpful with a new idea (4)
16 Catcall from somewhere (3)
17 It dries in the roasting heat (4)
19 The old vicar’s place (4)
21 Violence in a racing drama? (9)
23 Her stammer is rather like dad’s (4)
24 Regretted having rushed outside? (4)
26 Almost made angry (3)
27 Quickly get a change of garb (4)
29 A peculiar kind of lily? (4)
32 New arrival at the stable (4)
33 He can be made to burn with love (5)
34 Hidden in a past testament (6)
35 In being for himself, he’s quite unexceptional (8)
36 The two boys tangled (6)
DOWN
1 One may be specially suited to travel in it (5)
2 Good man, unusually fair and right (5)
3 In Piccadilly Circus, you’ll find some white roses (4)
4 To give a saint help, you need to be sober (5)
5 Roll up a hill (4)
6 Mousey name? (6)
9 Singer unable to finish a game of darts (6)
11 Airmen engaged in strafing (3)
12 Flower said to be blue on the first of May (5)
13 All wrong about a strange rite, it’s true (7)
15 A mug, or piece of glassware (3)
16 She’s a blossom (3)
18 Catherine’s place in history (6)
20 Could it help a woman in a Rolls to navigate? (5)
21 Caught in possession? (3)
22 Where the landlord turns up with a bottle opener? (3)
23 Another day in Spain (6)
25 Leeds United’s star (3)
28 Judged to be bad for trade (5)
30 A drink before my game (5)
31 What a jockey can do with a horse (5)
32 Was sensitive to being left to wander (4)
33 A narrow stream, but long (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1. Dramas 7. Top score 8. S-of-a 10. Wa-I-ter 11. Ho.-race 14. L-ew 16. Ruler 17. Rood (rev.) 19. H-ak-im 21. Ton-a-L 22. Hotly 23. Doom 26. Sal-Op. 28. Ted 29. C-Ron-in 30. Divers 31. Igor 32. Band-aged 33. Old boy.
DOWN: 1. Drawer 2. Moo-Ted 3. Star 4. Estoril 5. Local 6. Newer 8. Silo 9. F-EW 12. (Red) Rum 13. Cello 15. Manly 18. O-scar 19. Hot 20. (O-)Kay 21. Topical 22. Hon. 23. Dev-O-id 24. Oder 25. M-iser-y 26. Scuba 27. Loins 28. Tig 30. Did-O.