CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
4 Go back on the revision of a
decree (6)
7 Tubes of pasta (8)
8 Port authority police, still
unmoved (6)
10 All-round measurement (5) 13 Trees on the bowling green?
(4)
14 Past being in love, really? (4) 15 In the Foreign Office, short
measure of sherry (4) 16 Permitted amount of
double-talk (3)
17 Is again on the river (4) 19 Maybe like port (4)
21 It gets a driver nowhere
faster than ever (3,6)
23 Haul around in a dance (4) 24 It’s leonine, but may be
horsy (4)
26 Rob a fool? (3)
27 Fellow taking a piano to
church! (4)
29 He made no exclamation
when there was a flood (4) 32 Like the years it takes to get
slim? (4)
33 One of the fabrics a drill
sergeant possesses (5) 34 Stop making a boy sit awkwardly (6)
35 Where weddings are concerned, the colourful bits (8)
36 Food constituent that can
make a saint roguish! (6)
DOWN
1 Grub that’s eventually
become perfect! (5)
2 Mark takes new heart from
this narrow escape (5) 3 Knowing what may be Norman (4)
4 In Yorkshire, where there’s little money in wrought iron (5)
5 See a boy’s covered (4)
6 Go motoring with a novice?
Nonsense! (6)
9 Regard as a spectator (4,2) 11 Girl of four, starting young
(3)
12 Experimental new trail (5) 13 Mine was transformed by a
clever fellow (4,3)
15 It grows in the south of Iran
(3)
16 Guided by a little light (3) 18 Areas where saints are out
of step (6)
20 She shows anger over a
piece of news (5)
21 Pull some plugs out (3) 22 Surpass, possibly at cricket
or baseball (3) 23 Live in pain, nominally (6) 25 A man of conviction (3) 28 Hole in the wall used by the
hat check girl (5)
30 Speak of a zero charge (5) 31 The man needs 59 in spiral
form (5)
32 He is, as he sounds, a bit
unreliable! (4)
33 The easy way to play piano
(4)