CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 My rise cannot possibly bring happiness (6)

7 Where the boatman gets badly out of line (8)

8 Charles keeps in fetters! (6)

10 Points out some hate is simmering (5)

13 Posh emporium? (4)

14 Dance turn Hal’s upset about (4)

15 Bit of a cat (4)

16 A patient task (3)

17 One in the past a villain (4)

19 I’m half a day with a Muslim leader (4)

21 It comes later to one in search of illumination (9)

23 Obscurity leads to half the errors (4)

24 In Ireland, a girl gets love (4)

26 Being on edge, he starts mumbling (3)

27 Nominally a unit (4)

29 Marine creature bringing credit to a seaman (4)

32 Run out of escudos (4)

33 Like Christmas, one imagines (5)

34 Plenty of hard biscuit aboard ship! (6)

35 Give a girl a servile status (8)

36 A drink, but you can snap it like a biscuit! (6)

DOWN

1 Break into a jumbled mass on the top of the heap (5)

2 Nurse Lange, possibly? (5)

3 A name in patriotism (4)

4 Like the tough guy who almost came up to the house (5)

5 A game of quick decision (4)

6 Firing at it, you’ll never hit it (6)

9 In a pious way, I’m reformed by its moralising (6)

11 The little old king’s sign of impatience (3)

12 Did they stray from the orphanage? (5)

13 Held forth thunderously (7)

15 Get into life’s later stages (3)

16 Talk? Yes - to the point! (3)

18 Engaged in getting riding equipment for the assault (6)

20 Loiter with a low companion (5)

21 Mean to go first class to Minehead (3)

22 Is she up from the village out West? (3)

23 He advises men on bad rot (6)

25 Of Irish butter? (3)

28 Like a presidential beard, possibly? (5)

30 Is a hard hearted one a competitive newcomer? (5)

31 Like a glass eye? (5) 32 Show an interest in the bar code? (4)

33 Delivery extra far out (4)