CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Whereon skiers may step

out of line? (5)

8 Rod’s game? (5)

10 The study of Chopin, for

instance (5)

11 Tiny container? (3)

12 Biblical character from whom Noah might get a letter (5)

13 Optimistic flight on unsuitable fuel (7)

15 Determined to make love in

a different nest (3,2) 18 Positive denial of taint? (3) 19 Just about dead, as you can

tell (6)

21 Bird requiring ale, we hear, by

the pint (7)

22 Big production, but less than

the whole picture (4) 23 Plant contributing nothing

as a beer ingredient (4) 24 Container for cooked cutlets

(7)

26 Sad mis representation of a

sitter (6) 29 Bit of a toe rag, but finished (3) 31 Lustful type, apt to stray (5) 32 Melodious flute composition

including a bit of fun (7) 34 Iridescent part, possibly on

a bike (5)

35 Music we all need (3) 36 Provider of the shade of

grey? (5)

37 It’s good to scatter seed

around the borders (5)

38 In the cheapest seats, they make a nuisance of themselves (5)

DOWN

1 Travel in the open country around central Austria (5) 2 Such engineering seems to give a person a nervous complaint! (7)

4 One with a heavenly figure? (4) 5 It grows prickly (6)

6 She’s in the street, helping (5) 7 The fool takes it round the back of the studio! (5)

9 Take a rest from skipping (3) 12 In fairness, it’s only something cold and hard (7) 14 Does it look a bit fishy on an aeroplane? (3)

16 Are you hungry to get you feet under it? (5)

17 A word of infinite discouragement (5)

19 A former capital, to us, is

ungovernable (7)

20 The hundreds in a recent

survey? (5)

21 Just beat it with a bird (5) 23 Even now, Al Read takes a

key part (7)

24 Step taken to shift the dirt in

the southeast (6)

25 Figure often reduced (3) 27 One at Monte Carlo with a

red-headed friend? (5) 28 Something sweet to finish

up (5)

30 It’s now better for a dog to

have a name (5) 32 Potentially containing

shelter (4)

33 In spite of ignorance, you

can eat it (3)