WEE THINKER

Across

5 Removes bearing after running to us (5) 8 Storage device turned out less acrid (9) 9 Articles to be followed (7) 10 Our Alsatian has range (5) 11 A book, or dairy product (5) 13 US soldier back in street with mother revealing mark of disgrace (6) 16 Tell later about additive (6) 18 Put off animal, with time (5) 20 Classify a bell incorrectly (5) 22 Revolutionary air followed by early motorists (3,4) 24 Abandoned decent gel formula (9) 25 Object to night manoeuvre (5)

Down 1 Familiarly, the wife of an aged man? (3,4) 2 Get away clutching advert showing lark (8) 3 Flyer in other nest (4) 4 American beauty queen is married (6) 5 Busy getting a couple of letters roughly copied out (8) 6 Heroic story about a gas (4) 7 Thus employ an old drunkard (5) 12 Youngster has time to

fish (8) 14 Sailors mean plenty to a

pal (8) 15 Attempt to include old play

with unhappy ending (7) 17 A green composition can

irritate (6) 19 Stan worked with large

inclination (5)

Across 3. Seraglio (5) 8. Seabirds (5) 10. Fruit type (5) 11. Foot digit (3) 12. Baffling question (5) 13. Place in Wales (7) 15. Essential (5) 18. Ventilate (3) 19. Eye membrane (6) 21. Eight-sided figure (7) 22. Sweet fortified wine (4) 23. Dislike very much (4) 24. Dominance (7) 26. Brutish person (6) 29. Uncooked (3) 21 Bail out an island (4) 23 Small group, owing to time (4) 31. Tribal badge or emblem (5) 32. Arm bone (7) 34. Jeans fabric (5) 35. Container for liquids (3) 36. Tree type (5) 37. Leprosy victim (5) 38. Soup server (5)

Down 1. Paris underground (5) 2. Imprecise (7) 4. Particle of matter (4) 5. Number (6) 6. Be worthy of (5) 7. Holy book of Islam (5) 9. Fish eggs (3) 12. Sunshade (7) 14. Strike (3) 16. Relating to tides (5) 17. Tag (5) 19. Speaker’s platform (7) 20. Brisling (5) 21. Planet’s path (5) 23. Still (7) 24. Photographic device (6) 25. Battering device (3) 27. Fresh, new (5) 28. Bravery award (5) 30. External (5) 32. Raised area of land (4) 33. Type of popular music (3)