CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Split a religious group led by some bigot ( 6)

7 An old- fashioned boozer ( 8)

8 No place to monkey with the bees! ( 6)

10 Put on the coach ( 5)

13 Due to French cheese lacking maturity ( 4)

14 Rushed to the right- hand side ( 4)

15 Stray dogs in the gallery ( 4)

16 Lust for money ( 3)

17 Maybe it’s run down with a certain sign of regret ( 4)

19 River meandering round the outskirts of Arras? ( 4)

21 Diminishing fortune, more’s the pity ( 5,4)

23 Awell known Turner, popularly admired ( 4)

24 She mentions me repeatedly ( 4)

26 Islander? ( 3)

27 When not all waste is recycled, it’s a blow( 4)

29 The result of being backward? ( 4)

32 Looking hungry like some jungle animal ( 4)

33 One aspect of stage delivery ( 5)

34 Calls urgently for piano wires ( 6)

35 Longed to be set adrift, in part ( 8)

36 Steady those wobbly tables! ( 6)

DOWN

1 Was it possibly where one went in waspishly? ( 5)

2 Don’t allow bread to crumble ( 5)

3 Like greatly to be in clover ( 4)

4 Would trimming it be a bit hard in bed? ( 5)

5 Slip along like a runner with a letter ( 4)

6 The boxer’s angle ( 6)

9 What an Aussie might play for us poms? ( 6)

11 He goes to the end of the room ( 3)

12 Achieve mounting progress? ( 3,2)

13 Golfer or gaffer ( 7)

15 The Nagasaki terror weapon ( 3)

16 Talk back to awoman ( 3)

18 Taken off the paper ( 6)

20 Flameless burners ( 5)

21 Success in rowing ( 3)

22 Left the thing burning ( 3)

23 It might commemorate a terrible battle ( 6)

25 A little ‘ thank you’ letter ( 3)

28 A throwaway copy of “1 Down” ( 5)

30 Possibly first breaks in friendly relations ( 5)

31 We get a comedy part that’s pretty thin or weak ( 5)

32 Poet, young and innocent ( 4)

33 God’s is a churchyard ( 4)