CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Choose to have a power cut? (5)

8 Material possibly mined (5)

10 Searches the outhouses around the Nag’s Head (5)

11 High speed means heavy weight (3)

12 Put your foot down! (5)

13 Castigated Johnny rebel for upsetting the duke (7)

15 Firm one sold out (5)

18 A link with the old school (3)

19 Walk, since it’s only a short way to ride (6) 21 Officially, it’s binding (3,4)

22 Form of hose used by gardeners (4)

23 Bow at the finish, after a bad start (4)

24 It gives one pull in the field of farming (7) 26 Highly pointed line seen possibly in the press (6)

29 Not many, but it sounds more than is needed (3)

31 A note is a little letter (5)

32 Walk half a mile as you crush things underfoot (7)

34 Extra lean? (5)

35 I get fifty quid for being sick (3)

36 Bird, or a form of louse (5)

37 Ancient people incorporated with the Anglo Saxons? (5)

38 Maybe stalls Tessa unduly (5)

DOWN

1 He has to look out for trouble starting (5)

2 Small letter possibly read at a meeting (7) 4 Fat youth going round central Hammersmith (4)

5 Pure cheats, perhaps! (6)

6 A stylish old house (5)

7 Sober, with saintly assistance (5)

9 He’s included in the nobility (3)

12 Peg comes to rest, perhaps, where the seesaw tips (7)

14 Child of the captain mentioned (3)

16 Brownish colour of a deteriorated silver piece (5)

17 Can they be done with documents? (5)

19 It appears to be viewed with shocked respect (7)

20 Charles and Mike, it seems, are in a big hole (5)

21 Naturally, some sap gets the reins tangled (5)

23 When business is doing so, things are obviously not quiet (7)

24 A personal place of worship (6)

25 Thomas Otway’s version of ‘29 Across’ (3) 27 Such models are apt to go to the wall (3-2) 28 The poor fish that does so is apt to get caught (5)

30 A friend possessing a brave heart will relieve things (5)

32 Run in strict rotation (4)

33 Initially the business of the copper round the corner (3)