The National Crossword

ACROSS

2 Wise counsellor

8 Intellect

9 Reflected sound

12 Throw loosely about

13 Insane

14 S American ostrich

15 Papal ambassador

17 Went before

19 Merry frolics

21 Restaurant cars

23 Supplication

27 Shipworm

30 Musical composition

31 Combines

33 Enquires

35 Turf

36 Golf club

37 Builds

38 Fork spike

39 Drive forcefully

DOWN

1 Accustoms

2 Meditate

3 Leak out

4 Knighthoods

5 Staggered

6 Hair ointment

7 Snakes

10 Believed

11 Consume

16 Necessary information

18 Showing veneration

20 Equality in value

22 Slender stick

23 Temporary stops

24 Words spoken in

undertone

25 Still

26 Oppose

27 Suits maker

28 Responds

29 Shellfish

32 And not

34 Slight parody