Western Daily Press (Saturday)
Cryptic crossword
AS THE TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO CREEP UP, IT’S TIME TO DITCH THE PUFFERS AND HEAVY OVERCOATS, SAYS EMMA JOHNSON
Across
3 Jumped when taking
PT on the meadow (5) 8 Food for a dog going
by railway (5)
10 Made one's views known to a top communist (5)
11 Man of
imagination (3)
12 Fish a stream at
Birkenhead (5)
13 Head of finance (7) 15 Games of the greatest
status (5)
18 Sarah from Salford (3) 19 New loader on trial (6) 21 What the barber will get if you nick his razor? (7)
22 All rounders in track
athletics? (4)
23 Does it grow
infernally? (4) 24 Remains to be seen as something educational (7) 26 Quick look round for a
mouthpiece (6)
29 See Mr Gore's resemblance to president Coolidge (3) 31 Return from Ragusa with something sweet (5)
32 A rewarding
burden (7)
34 In breaking a leg, maybe, make a name (5)
35 Much reduced fare (3) 36 An under-nine play
group (5)
37 One's wartime
girlfriend? (5) 38 Smallest article enclosed just in case (5)
Down
1 Moon's associate space-probe at the centre of the earth! (5) 2 Studio workers in dire
straits? (7)
4 A noble forename (4) 5 To get a mate shot is
mean (6)
6 Covered with slabs (5) 7 She'll make a home
for one (5)
9 A burglar beating it
would be a blow (3) 12 Rubbish obtained by going out unaccompanied? (7) 14 Black salt? (3) 16 Disunite with some
perseverance (5)
17 Go furtively forming
links (5)
19 Kind of glass used for
measuring drinks? (7) 20 Clearly it may be the
'19 Down' type (5) 21 Shoot the pedant to the bottom of the class! (5)
23 Be deceived by a
person's charms? (4,3) 24 Tripe's processed by
an elflike creature (6) 25 Any upset can be
discouraging (3) 27 Move like a drunken
churl (5)
28 Flat area involved in
games? (5)
30 It's tough, making a
hash outright! (5) 32 As used in writing
pointed articles? (4) 33 Initially a senior
citizen (3)
ACROSS
1 I lived with my three dogs in a countryside place next to the King’s Head in Notton before we all moved to this village near Olveston (10)
8 Keep an eye out and you might spot me on the river in Sherborne (3)
9 The small airfield in Redmoor will take between two and three years to build (9)
10 On Thursday, my son, a top judge, is off to a place near Torpoint (2,4)
11 I arranged to take my sweetheart to a top eatery in the centre of Taunton -- we had a soup starter and three courses to follow (5)
13 For the latter part of her life, Olga left Devon and moved east (3,3)
15 My son, Stu, got his first job at the weather centre about a mile from Botallack (2,4)
17 This village near Sourton on the edge of Dartmoor is in an unaffordable area (5)
18 Yes, my son, who lives on the outskirts of Ash Priors, has managed to get some of his written works published (6)
21 We have left our big place in Haytor and relocated to this village near Halwill (9)
22 This former chemical company built three factories, one in the middle of Cardinham (3)
23 My middle-aged parents have a hillside place, not far from St Austell (10)
DOWN
1 Little Benjamin from Tenby gets so spoilt -- he’s got lots of different things to play with (4)
2 My cousin started this small company in Dartmeet -- it has four employees and produces a speciality West Country dairy product (7,5)
3 The run-down place I had in the middle of Exmouth was awful, so I moved to a place in north-western America (5)
4 I witnessed a stabbing in the centre of St Goran, around midnight (6)
5 This item, that is just one of a set, was bought by Ash from Edmondsham -- he’s got three of the set now, but unfortunately the fourth item is still missing (7)
6 Silly Orla got on the bus without first asking where it went -- unfortunately she ended up in the middle of nowhere, somewhere near Bath! (8,4)
7 On Monday, me and three of my mates visited Exmouth -- we travelled around and I picked up something to remind us of our trip (7)
12 So, on 1st February, the head nurse at the top clinic in Bournemouth arranged for four of my relatives to go in for private discussions (7)
14 My brother, a leading hotelier from Marlborough, has a wildly attractive and exciting quality (7)
16 An insect, a bee, landed on my left ear as I was walking around in the centre of Portland (6)
19 My pal from Stapley was really ill last Christmas -- he had inflamed swellings on his eyelids (5)
20 You can get a lovely Moroccan herbal tea in this tea room in Torquay (4)
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