CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Politician pursuing rotten

curs that steal fruit (6)

7 An artist’s personal view (8) 8 Have a go at Spike? (6) 10 They sidle around, some

being fiddlers (5)

13 One of those spent in Rome,

possibly (4)

14 Fearless aristocrat? (4) 15 One generally helpful with a

new idea (4)

16 Catcall from somewhere (3) 17 It dries in the roasting heat

(4)

19 The old vicar’s place (4) 21 Violence in a racing drama?

(9)

23 Her stammer is rather like

dad’s (4)

24 Regretted having rushed

outside? (4)

26 Almost made angry (3) 27 Quickly get a change of garb

(4)

29 A peculiar kind of lily? (4) 32 New arrival at the stable (4) 33 He can be made to burn with

love (5)

34 Hidden in a past testament

(6)

35 In being for himself, he’s

quite unexceptional (8) 36 The two boys tangled (6)

DOWN

1 One may be specially suited

to travel in it (5)

2 Good man, unusually fair

and right (5)

3 In Piccadilly Circus, you’ll

find some white roses (4) 4 To give a saint help, you need

to be sober (5)

5 Roll up a hill (4) 6 Mousey name? (6)

9 Singer unable to finish a

game of darts (6)

11 Airmen engaged in strafing

(3)

12 Flower said to be blue on the

first of May (5)

13 All wrong about a strange

rite, it’s true (7)

15 A mug, or piece of glassware

(3)

16 She’s a blossom (3) 18 Catherine’s place in history

(6)

20 Could it help a woman in a

Rolls to navigate? (5) 21 Caught in possession? (3) 22 Where the landlord turns up

with a bottle opener? (3) 23 Another day in Spain (6) 25 Leeds United’s star (3) 28 Judged to be bad for trade

(5)

30 A drink before my game (5) 31 What a jockey can do with a

horse (5)

32 Was sensitive to being left

to wander (4)

33 A narrow stream, but long

(4)