CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Want to improve German accent (5) 5 Baffle the remainder (5) 9 Brigade’s gear (3) 10 Reversible blade? (5) 11 Stupid pub has a point (5) 12 Also among pandas (3) 13 Favourite dog, say (3) 14 Hearsay about organ (3) 16 Run off to get receptacle (3) 18 Course brought on salver, say (6) 21 Does order some medicine (4) 23 Change gear in fury (4) 26 Wife builds a tomb for marsupial (6) 29 Talk of argon, say (3) 31 Same level within department (3) 32 Stipulate about dump (3) 34 You and I have time to get soaked (3) 36 Animated a veil badly (5) 37 Representative time with book (5) 38 Rushed out of France (3) 39 Don’s upset with unknown council (5) 40 Use betting at conclusion (5)

DOWN

1 Stand with three legs, stumble, and ring head doctor (6) 2 Complain audibly at drink (4) 3 A portal’s made of stones (6) 4 Salute engineers and get out (5) 5 Look at new rates (5) 6 Not returning a great deal (3) 7 Our Duncan’s tongue (4) 8 Map of esplanade (4) 15 Roam around after a smell (5) 17 Struggled with mat (3) 19 One writer’s novel (3) 20 Are back for a long time (3) 22 Removal includes eggs (3) 24 A trite form of costume (6) 25 Old writer has note to dole out (6) 27 Plumped for new depot (5) 28 British traitors are spoilt children (5) 29 Gasp, somehow, at holes (4) 30 Small, pale bird (4) 33 Terrible name for a tsar (4) 35 The golfer’s conceit (3)

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