LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS

2 Going up to a higher level, in advance (9)

9 Heading off with a Livingston player to a popular musical (5)

12 Run into 30 down city, turning up where PSG play (5)

14 Did the girl arrange to get a canal barge? (7)

15 Take in some of the Athens derby match (3)

17 Boxing venue sited in the middle of Warrington (4)

18 Old notes for the Italian back, about to finish (4)

19 Ways in, up to a point, to a National League team (9)

20 Long garment worn by some Stirling Albion players (3)

21 A vast new production of a direction finder (6)

22 Sales men played darts with little hesitation (7)

25 Perform, at the end, like 24 down on the way back (3)

27 Had a new patient, perhaps, on condition (2,4)

29 A priest led the italian girl last month (5)

31 Tennis strip, at the end, based on a bird of prey (4)

33 Drop down at the start of 14 across (5)

34 After left turn, free to be sensational (5)

35 Scrimp and sc rape to keep the ball out of the net (4)

36 We lazed about with ann, playing for a test team (3,7)

DOWN

1 Assignment for a team like ross County going down (10)

3 Correct support, as it were, for a defender (5-4)

4 Artist portrayed one team playing on board ship (7)

5 Get round to writer at a top golf tournament (4)

6 Greats turned up at last to hit their goals (7)

7 I’d learn about one of the teams in the Six Nations (7)

8 High-jumper involved in a different field event (4-7)

10 Head off 9 across left at the back. Its essential (5)

11 Points awarded for a win out there (5)

13 Have to work very hard to produce rivets (6)

16 Help some of the Oakland Raiders (3)

23 Old welsh master golf er turned out of 16 down (3)

24 In breeding of some long grass (4)

26 Groan about a keyboard instrument (5)

28 African-long-distance-runner won nothing, at the end (4)

29 Is everyone involved in the Challenge Cup? (3)

30 Had a little drink back at a Serie C team (4)

32 Cup match for tranmere, Ipswich and Exeter, initially (3)

Last week’s winner of £30 Love to Shop vouchers was: Frank Park, of Tyler’s Acre Gardens, Edinburgh.

Entries to: Crossbar competition, The Scotsman, 30 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh EH4 2HS. The winner’s name and solution will be published next monday. The Scotsman Publications Ltd employees and their families are not eligible. The Editor’s decision is final.