CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Endlessly telephone Philippa inside tube (8)

5 Scholarly in theory (8) 11 Greek Mass (3-6)

12 Man puts contents of vessel into beer-mug (4-3)

13 Lamb possibly is full of interest (5)

14 Some drab bits included by priest (5)

15 Enter another race for repeat showing (5)

16 It is sought by game hunters – usually indoors! (7) 18 Light-fingered clue, arson suspected (9)

20 What old lounge had – space for retreating? (11,4)

25 Bar thinly disguised in complex network (9) 27 Composer Lee’s in north upset (7)

29 It is bound to be given an odd number (5) 31 Language be, say, very good, some say, outside (5) 32 Herb’s lab is vandalised (5) 33 Girl, one finding shelter by the sea (7)

34 Flat-fish for the evening (9) 35 Saying little, go after Act I has been performed (8) 36 Tea stain removed from radioactive element (8) DOWN

1 Is he an insect or a giant beast? (8)

2 Japanese art increasing, so to speak (7)

3 One instructed to vote for two unknowns (5)

4 Play quietly near violent arboreal animal (5,4)

6 Many a non-drinker that is right to be more spiteful (7) 7 Exclude from French sandbank (5)

8 Officer to act with Missouri general steward (5-4) 9 Weariness of having a drink in this French ship (8)

10 An illegal strike (3,5,3,4) 17 Dhobi Harry entered Indian state (5)

19 Rye cultivated that is for the nest (5)

21 Ice I climb out of, being fatuous (9)

22 Felix’s vital statistics? (4,5) 23 Very well, it is 100 per cent accurate (3,5)

24 Something that’s similar in certain respects to a type of computer (8)

26 Can rule out a type of energy (7)

28 Is mash I served up a Japanese dish? (7)

30 Shout of pain permitted from young bird (5)

32 A flat piece of timber brought up to wood (5)