CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Near in the clear - until

tomorrow, that is! (9)

10 The train isn’t moving, or

travelling (2,7)

12 My pet duck (4)

13 Pearls from somewhere in

London (6)

14 Make it longer? That is a

disappointment (7)

15 Had altered the piece about

the wren and tit flying in (9) 17 On the subject of electricity

- it’s happening again (9) 18 Getting late home through it, there’s no future in such a job (4-3)

19 Does his cruelty make him

unhappy at first? (6)

20 A lady-love in Oxford, perhaps (4)

23 Listens in for the true

dummy run (9)

25 With the litigant who turns

up, unfriendly all round (9) 26 Figure the time has come to

name her (4)

27 Made one get into the car

(6)

29 Meandered about, but didn’t

go right inside (7) 32 Searched for when one fled,

having stolen from (9) 34 Gave one’s views on the

unrestricted sale of dogs (9) 35 What do I think of the vegetable? The stuffing’s good (7) 36 From choice, work? Not, I,

silly! (6)

37 Having arrived an hour

before (4)

38 When you eat sprouts, what tells you they’re palatable (5,4)

39 Prudence that makes one buy food that won’t perish? (9)

DOWN

1 Caught a real streamer - a

cold that’s going round (8) 2 A song and dance about the

oppressiveness? (5,7) 3 Worried, tried to rouse

people into action (8) 4 Endeavour to get a wrench

(6)

5 Impeded by the deer - wild

deer (8)

6 In every price range, come

what may (2,3,5)

7 Beating that has an electrifying effect (7)

8 Pay for your little luxury

from the kiosk? (5,5)

11 Stay by the sea (5) 16 Headgear for the snowman, with a white peak? (6)

19 A note, only, and that’s

unfinished (3)

21 What made the bed collapse? (5,7)

22 Set free, though really bad (6) 23 Where those rocks that look

like jagged teeth are? (5,5) 24 Getting supplies in, ready for

Santa (8,2)

25 Cheated in the return, too (3) 28 The Hatter residence? (8) 29 Prevail over and turn us out to accommodate the doctor (8)

30 Mete out something you

could do without? (8)

31 Taxi I get hold of, in case (7) 33 They’re hard catches (5) 34 Join and chat desultorily

with at first (6)