CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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33 34 35 36 1 2 A force for good (6) Battle station (8)

Slow starting runner, but a cheerful one (6) Jumps around with much pleasure (5)

How one’s ears can burn! (4) Nominally a bit of a setback for ASLEF (4) Country dance hall (4) Pointed end of a lancet, I presume (3)

Stray sheep going round the ring (4)

You won’t find this in the North Atlantic! (4) Old-fashioned fellows (9) In more ways than one, I’m clued up (4)

One garment, of which five make a set (4)

Traffic problem promised for tomorrow? (3)

It’s taken to be exemplary (4)

Cleaner drink? (4) A pronounced bore, but providing a round in the bar (4)

Has no translation in an African language (5)

The benefits of managing to be first round the bend? (6) It emerges as a key assignment (8)

American in the nude, perhaps, getting fresh (6)

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Retreat by rail, possibly? (4) Cried movingly at the perfect ending, we believe (6) Apparently a prayer to make a man sit up! (6) Timber used in wheel making (3)

A centre for continental capitalists (5)

Need it contain Russian tea? (7)

Flier with a hang-up? (3) Brown ant maybe (3) Being catty, is spotted in a nice fur coat (6)

Going to church, headgear provides a certain cover (5) Enough energy for six million? (3) 22 23 25 28 30 31 32 33 In dire disappointment, visibly angry (3)

Bird possessing a warm heart in a London street (6) Managed to appear in opera nightly (3)

Less than pleased when relieved (5)

Jump over the thing and buzz off (3,2)

The weather not to be out, with little sunshine around (5)

It’s after the job’s finished that there are offcuts (4) Shopping for a kimono, you may see one in the window (4)