Cryptic crossword

Across

4 Looks at books (6) 7 Foreign confectionery

to have a fling with (8) 8 A trap's reset in an

ancient city (6)

10 A private name (5) 13 One can weaken and

still wave it (4)

14 It didn't grow at

Tyburn (4)

15 Coastal feature ripe

for redevelopment (4) 16 A familiar facsimile (3) 17 On the ground, perhaps, too weak to stand up? (4)

19 A figure advanced at

Bristol, for instance (4) 21 Actor playing Bonnie

Prince Charlie? (9) 23 By which Elsie is no

end misled? (4) 24 Passes for females (4) 26 Fail to survive on an

inadequate diet (3) 27 To some ladies, an unpleasant creature (4)

29 But a greyhound can

get out of it (4) 32 Blue essay about

love (4)

33 African country with a

middle-sized river (5) 34 In play, could be termed a city of gentlemen (6)

35 The cat gets a bird – as it flies through the air? (8)

36 One learning the way

in N Ireland? (6)

Down

1 Writer of Caledonian

tales initially (5)

2 He's imagined to make

men go astray (5) 3 Light?

Emphatically! (4) 4 Passage to a place like

Capri (5)

5 Many a student joke is

a bore (4)

6 He gave a perfect ending to a clever piece of painting (6) 9 Show proudly that dad's exceptionally dear (6) 11 A royal ball (3)

12 Over a yard, but just about a quarter of a foot! (5)

13 The one Madame

Butterfly sang of? (4,3) 15 Mine's in hospital (3) 16 In favour of raising the

roof, nothing less (3) 18 Charlton, in the

London area (6)

20 She can be strikingly

enlightening (5)

21 Soft, that is, to eat? (3) 22 Seem ready to drop

off (3)

23 Brownish uniform? (6) 25 Heart to heart

listener (3)

28 Are to edit and deliver

a speech (5)

30 Figure a liar may be

out to surpass you! (5) 31 Not exactly perky, but

rather sickly (5) 32 Common verb that turns up in Herodotus (2,2)

33 Laze around with

gusto! (4)