CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 and 34 Find a new form of expenditure, to deal with a loss of expertise (5,5)

8 Is about to trap a royal in a Canadian city (6) 9 Get a girl ready to line up with a couple of additives (6)

10 One fellow was wrapped up in an Indian garment on an expedition (6)

11 Get the better of one who reveals a trading centre (8) 12 and 29 Topple over at the highest point, even in excellent condition (3-3)

13 Did the British embrace a cry of triumph at old dance (6)

14 Dig up an out-of-date paper from the past (3,5)

17 Was the trialist an extra? He’s not the same (7)

19 Tears up a short work in the long grass (7) 23 The country has to get back to writing things down (8)

27 A standard symbol used to mark character

(6)

29 See 12 across

30 One page on 7 down turned out to show one’s ancestry (8)

31 Hate to put half the side on trial (6)

32 Iron rod taken back with a type of 18 down (6) 33 Give notice when about to go into a maze of narrow passages (6)

34 See 3 across

DOWN

1 Left, say, at Olympics, initially, having a smooth run without a break (6)

2 Use thread to put a screen round a hospital department (8)

3 Singer from an Italian city got to the northeast (8)

4 Appropriately, provide a support for a leading seaman (7)

5 Captured a mistake by a tennis player (6) 6 Did former pupils get a smoking place, in return? (6)

7 Achieved an academic qualification, at some stage (6) 13 and 16 Support a new form of attack in a flash of inspiration (10) 15 and 18 Best cover-up, sporting a high crown (3-3)

16 See 13 down

18 See 15 down

20 May have to move back a bit to resign from office (4,4)

21 Tries to bar organisation of referees and umpires (8) 22 A worker had to take a girl back to get a TV aerial (7)

24 Started out with old writer taking on a boss, on paper (6)

25 Did a French friend leave with some Spanish friends? (6)

26 Find a new way to make an incursion into enemy territory (6)

28 See the final flower of the Spring festival (6),