CRYPTIC PUZZLE

ACROSS 4 Fight for the leftovers (6) 7 Maradona got to handle it (5,3) 8 Watery woman? (6) 10 Barley’s first name? (5) 13 Dry, skinny, troublesome, fellow? (4) 14 So half-days are helpful for doing the washing (4) 15 Light to moderate? (4) 16 Hit the target Jack’s missing (3) 17 Double, yet gradually reduced (4) 19 I’m half a day with a mosque official (4) 21 Bad luck at chemin der fer? (4,5) 23 Large floating piece of ambergris (4) 24 Actor pointing in all directions (4) 26 It’s observed to have many teeth (3) 27 Birds in the music room (4) 29 Mechanical device that may seize up (4) 32 Speak peevishly of a picture (4) 33 Cold running water in Paris (5) 34 Leggy birds (6) 35 Neck line (4,4) 36 Credit one has in old coins (6)

DOWN 1 Gives and receives (5) 2 A loafer’s money? (5) 3 Star having a try at worship? (4) 4 A man, possibly a ship (5) 5 Gathers some more apples (4) 6 Like some temporary arrangement (3,3) 9 Where a crashed airman got a boat? (6) 11 The age of Leonardo (3) 12 Mean of finding one’s way back, also (5) 13 Shouts more when one telephones? (5,2) 15 A whim, perhaps, but it can never be quite daft (3) 16 Talk of a terror weapon? (3) 18 Important to our loveless little man (6) 20 Mix with me and Reg, possibly (5) 21 Cut some of the work out (3) 22 T’is put another way (3) 23 Beat a striking player (6) 25 Fresh air enthusiast? (3) 28 They stand high in the list of nautical needs (5) 30 Individual part of the competition (5) 31 Sharp character, this little girl (5) 32 Animal going round a corner at low speed (4) 33 Used to being prosecuted? (4)