CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Walks or takes public transport around Clapham central (6)

7 Tubes of paste (8)

8 Such acid makes an expert

twitch! (6)

10 A dish alas spoilt by hundreds (5)

13 Produced sound bread (4)

14 Endlessly stupid place for a

window box? (4)

15 Source of tar or possibly

some alcohol (4)

16 Work in a factory (3)

17 Divorce would be too much

for him (4)

19 The attraction of a new rule

(4)

21 Speak too strongly because

of bad taste? (9)

23 Some of the prettiest things

to wear (4)

24 Can be bitten, though cutting is appropriate (4)

26 The friend father left (3)

27 Catch and knock out a

redhead! (4)

29 Dizzy dame in a red coat (4) 32 What “raining hard” could

imaginably mean? (4)

33 A stiffener or two (5)

34 Seen to be in hand (6)

35 Plant providing the horticultural place with an excellent return (8)

36 One employing the ablest

lads? (6)

DOWN

1 Collect a choral work (5)

2 Oar said to belong to jolly

Roger (5)

3 The young Mr Pitt (4)

4 It’s up to an academician to provide something topping! (5)

5 Though elderly, managed

without a husband (4)

6 He gets what the shop charges when about to close down (6)

9 A low place with a good

stock of wine (6)

11 It can help if you turn up the

radiator a bit (3)

12 Alert to one evil possibility

(5)

13 A starting place for correction treatment (7)

15 Crikey, a French horn! (3)

16 It’s a measure of land, dearest heart! (3)

18 Could such virgins use

valets? (6)

20 Articulate, say (5)

21 Ring the film centre for hairdressing (3)

22 It’s apt to be turned on (3)

23 What you need to write a

story for the theatre (6)

25 Would a tartan lining suit it?

(3)

28 Ride around the Hog’s Back,

it being high ground (5)

30 Put off a letter to a relative

(5)

31 A putty one isn’t exactly

metal! (5)

32 Mother Brown’s little boy?

(4)

33 Restful little county (4)