The National Crossword

ACROSS

3 Hated intensely

9 Sprinkle with flour

10 Above

11 Provincial dialect

12 Overspread

16 Rudder bar

17 Tell

20 Part of a coat

21 Curving recess

23 Entice

26 One who complains

29 Complete agreement

31 Egg dish

33 Wink

34 Relating to aphorisms

36 Scold

37 Reddish brown

38 Recognises

DOWN

1 Make suitable

2 Remember

3 Merit

4 Drunkard

5 Dodges

6 Tennis term

7 Of Troy

8 Morse elements

13 Pay attention

14 Slumbers

15 Golf mound

18 Bird

19 Small tower

22 Factory sirens

23 Pulled forcibly

24 Persons under age

25 Explosive

27 Friend (Fr)

28 Slip by

30 More agreeable

32 Irritable

35 Son (Scot)