CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 To win the round, then, one’s struggling (2,3,4)

10 Not only a pair of golfing socks may have it! (4,2,3)

12 The second last post (4)

13 Thing for which there’s a market, you say (6)

14 As the actor did who was wrong playing the pitcher? (7)

15 Late and wanting to go to bed? (4,5)

17 The Chinese sounds stick out (9)

18 To correct it, change gear! (7)

19 Sell back subsequently when I occupy it (6)

20 The beach ball is on the top (4)

23 What the building worker did when drunk? (9)

25 Lecture about how birds preen their feathers (5,4)

26 Kind and gentle, yet rough on the exterior (4)

27 The president, in the end, is mysteriously shot (6)

29 He’s following the tracks of the vehicle (7) 32 Disapproval of the thing I have on (9)

34 Related to, was anxious about (9)

35 Both of us got a call from, which is tiresome (7)

36 The mother’s in a daze, bewildered and stunned (6)

37 The island sounds like heaven! (4)

38 Enters for treatment with the flu, groggy and piqued (9)

39 So the warning about comes through (9)

DOWN

1 Think the son, having run inside, cried out (8)

2 Light that acts as a yardstick for all others? (8,4)

3 Bears out, when one cheats the company into (8)

4 Ask what makes a commodity sell so well? (6)

5 Quick way to ensure a dog stays cool in summer (5,3)

6 Fruit, my darling? (10)

7 That’s a job for the embassy (7)

8 That’s fixed. You have to stop roving (6,4) 11 Talk round, on the scale of payments (5) 16 Understanding how to handle the young (6)

19 The man in the fishing boat (3)

21 What would happen if you didn’t tell me? Don’t ask me! (1,7,4)

22 Trembling, is given a drink (6)

23 Propose to move towards the front (3,7) 24 Draining and scarpering! (7,3)

25 Acted in the comeback, too (3)

28 The top fifty in the craft (8)

29 Offered again, was inclined to accept (8) 30 Flushed from many a lair concealed by grass (8)

31 Suits and coats in for repairs (7)

33 Whose are the pants? (5)

34 Plans for a child star in the making (6) 8 30