Crossword

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ACROSS

9 Fool has share in conversion of organic compound (9) 10 Bar thinly spread out in maze (9) 12 Cheese additive encounters barrier (4) 13 Chief rioted unexpectedly (6) 14 The missing conclusion should be an idea ( 7) 15 Insect that flew in WW2 (5,4) 17 Frightening figure races round to boast (9) 18 Vitamin has role to play with metal ( 7) 19 In favour of healthy gain (6) 20 New arts supremo (4) 23 Prise dime out of layer of skin (9) 25 Resulting situation following American subject (9) 26 Ash, say, found in street (4) 27 Plead to play with one bat, say (6) 29 A sofa, initially indulging rodent ( 7) 32 Easily influenced, blame all change to energy (9) 34 Cactus, say, that’s good to eat (9) 35 Family row takes time ( 7) 36 Chat about a year in old China (6) 37 Ottoman ruler registered for a laxative (4) 38 Spore cluster makes giddy mogul reel (9) 39 One’s crane turned out to have special meaning (9)

DOWN

1 Speculator at home upsets voters (8) 2 Honest range includes one- dimensional object (8,4) 3 Furious wolf runs and ducks, say (8) 4 Take chants away (6) 5 Scale for use outside (8) 6 His contributions are always late (10) 7 Weep, having gone off freezing mixture ( 7) 8 Gossips on value of Derbyshire mansion (10) 11 Badly reign part of Africa (5) 16 Tenner wasted on cheese ingredient (6) 19 Turn up second form of secretion (3) 21 He’s careening about in program (6,6) 22 Gilding in refurbished room left to university (6) 23 Gloomy note rewritten in study (10) 24 Noble dummy flourished in his element (10) 25 Join a religious man (3) 28 For every stretch of river, put in a missionary (8) 29 Use of old style has strange charisma (8) 30 Confine alien in web (8) 31 Arab commando’s payment includes energy and time ( 7) 33 Fast old tempo (5) 34 Zen enlightenment as riot breaks out (6)