CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 They’re pretty shapeless, ducks (5) 8 Beneath the elbow, maybe (5) 10 Uncle again gets the wrong sum (5) 11 See nothing for a little time in bed (3) 12 Start rowing in a rotten lake! (5) 13 Enough money to get one carried away? (3,4) 15 Troubles that exist in the Civil Service (5) 18 It’s mined in Korea (3) 19 Deprive of cover (6) 21 Went round to put a name on the list (7) 22 Sound excessively thickheaded (4) 23 Guy with a counterfeit note (4) 24 Favourite place to buy things you’ll love (3,4) 26 Motorist insisting on a hard bargain? (6) 29 What’s in a name? (3) 31 Somehow nears a more sensible state (5) 32 Sort of case for a diplomat (7) 34 It’s foolish to be foxy about just one pound (5) 35 Further, nearly a foot back (3) 36 With which one might be given a pair of socks (5) 37 They labour, these writers about love (5) 38 Leading by a small margin (5)

DOWN

1 Bad time touring the East Central district (5) 2 Moving quickly a good distance (7) 4 Special knowledge of solo recording (4) 5 Held up the car reversing into a garden plot (6) 6 A chair in the saloon (5) 7 Fathead accustomed to being overloaded! (5) 9 It often leads to a smash (3) 12 A wave from a smasher! (7) 14 Pictures, etc., in popular television (3) 16 Raise the flag at the cricket ground? (3,2) 17 Cut south at all times (5) 19 The thickness that makes you sit in and refuse to go out (7) 20 Misguidedly dusts certain projections (5) 21 You’ll find him in probing a book of birds (5) 23 Gave a chap the wrong date (7) 24 Be lost, like a monarch in a shipwreck (6) 25 Tricky thing to wear? (3) 27 Swift and quiet in attack (5) 28 Victor possibly eats with her (5) 30 Was brilliant enough to silence anybody (5) 32 Some old boy’s mater? (4) 33 What to exclaim when you see double? (3)