Western Morning News

Cryptic crossword

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Across

3 Raise one amid

many (5)

8 Rose and dressed (3,2) 10 Should be a bit of a

rough time (5)

11 He may well be

suspended (3)

12 One heartens a poet to become an inventor (5)

13 Move coal out of a mine to somewhere important (7)

15 Terry may describe

it (5)

18 Retiring to copy a

piece of poetry out (3) 19 This villain is angry, on

the quiet! (6) 21 Immediatel­y present,

but without a place (7) 22 Do evening work at

the laundry (4)

23 Make steady progress with an old compositio­n for piano (4)

24 Properly suited to

audio use? (7) 26 Boxed up and carted

around (6)

29 A sound line from the

prompter (3) 31 Hellish exclamatio­n by

little Desmond (5) 32 Carries around for sale

(on a bike?) (7) 34 Capital place to get

plastered? (5) 35 Augustinia­n's familiar

name (3)

36 Figures out points of material significan­ce (5) 37 Some doctors

consume it (5)

38 The look of an old

Indian Army man? (5)

Down

1 Not yet having taken a

knock (2,3)

2 If you polish up a dud coin, it's the point of no return! (7)

4 Where to egg on the

Surrey team (4)

5 The kind, that is, for

outgoing soldiers (6) 6 Historic tour roaming around the capital of Denmark (5)

7 These may be used to

make paper (5)

9 To finish up best (3) 12 You've had it, man! (7) 14 Pull a shirt tail with a

loud cry (3)

16 Woolly headed friend,

nominally? (5)

17 At extremitie­s, money one doesn't borrow! (5)

19 Leaps and capers wildly around a pole (7)

20 The dog breeder's

complaint? (5) 21 Person of no fixed

address (5)

23 Left with uncle, as

promised (7)

24 For me, wild seas can have magic significan­ce (6)

25 It's no good turning

up another time (3) 27 Can you win them if you have the right cards? (5)

28 Warm as the water when the tide changes around Peterhead (5) 30 With which to start brushing some scattered leaves? (5) 32 Sort of gin with which

to fix a cocktail! (4) 33 Courtly lord (3)

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