CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Both sides fit, what a surprise (4,4)

5 Butter Jo smeared on engine (8)

11 Limit amount of beer on a logical basis (9)

12 Baptismal surety? (7) 13 Ineffectual number Sue removed (2,3)

14 I had returned few lines on electronic device (5)

15 Think fit to lower oneself (5) 16 Heavenly body without a compound that’s organic (7) 18 Pleased it had left nothing to be desired (9)

20 One of the leading ladies in the pack (5,2,8)

25 Be with group then run to surround fortified area (9) 27 Four left in dear charge (7) 29 Ironically blame Henry in armoured vehicle (5)

31 Greek character with your old brief (5) 32 Swot with drinking-vessel raised (3,2)

33 Overlook study that has been completed (7)

34 Rev Ezra, go round to see what cows might to if they spend too long in the same field (9) 35 Without a gap to split two extremities (3,2,3)

36 Guard about first is person giving something in recognition of effort (8) DOWN

1 After fighting I head for caution (8)

2 Let us hear it can be found in salads (7)

3 Complete part of golf course as you might say (5)

4 Dull Donna coming from seaside resort (9)

6 Put pews round that curved upwards (7)

7 Promise to take apprentice into fair (5) 8 Explained how margins had been aligned (9)

9 Lament Henry Tod composed (8)

10 Afterthought about respect (15)

17 Award, for example, one final letter (5)

19 Ship’s second vertical slit in its side (5)

21 Got to know one in Paris first who was not erudite (9) 22 Welding gas Lee can yet manufacture (9)

23 One of a number put in the path of runners (8)

24 Come back to cultivate fruit (8) 26 Some stump teenagers, indefinitely large number (7) 28 Miser pulling up but not stopping (7)

30 Some panicky otorhinolaryngologist in Japan (5)

32 Mother going round Greek capital for molten rock (5)