CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 If your heart isn’t in it, there’s something very wrong (5)

8 Hero of the Spanish police? (2,3)

10 Giant canned potato centre (5)

11 Fair game? (3)

12 Whale of a show, initially? (5)

13 Extremist adviser? (7) 15 Student embraced by Iris? (5)

18 The seaman’s cunning art (3)

19 Is held by a goddess to be improper employment (6) 21 An excellent position in the theatre (3,4)

22 Be inclined at some suitable angle (4)

23 Sole fruit? (4)

24 Coins in holes? (7) 26 Condescends to have signed (6)

29 So superior, yet of little value (3)

31 Food many, alas, returned (5)

32 Where to ache to take a powder? (7)

34 A well preserved old woman (5)

35 Tip into a hole (3) 36 Philosophical line in cost adjustment (5)

37 The glory that was Greek (5) 38 Could it be heard as a hoarse sound? (5)

DOWN

1 Fairylike part of a Handel finale (5)

2 Name no twins novelly (7) 4 Hot air is naturally thin (4) 5 Carry on contradicting? (4,2)

6 Name the bird before us (5) 7 Moves like grounded airmen? (5) 9 Drinking-vessel to see raised? (3)

12 People Peron’s taken round Ponders End (7) 14 Volunteers a kiss as payment (3)

16 Has magnetism (5)

17 Bar a learner for all time (5) 19 Time to take a joke with dignity (7)

20 Goes slowly with an afterthought about an old wreck (5)

21 He seems a bit silly to a bachelor (5)

23 Chip in, perhaps (5,2) 24 Persuade to dine out, maybe, with a bit of luck (6) 25 Now a Scotticism (3) 27 A world of new heart (5) 28 Kid showing a profit around end of term (5)

30 He doesn’t show his true feelings (5)

32 Silly mugs full of self-satisfaction (4)

33 Help to get a first-class degree, initially (3)