SUPERQUICK CROSSWORD 912

ACROSS

1 What the field mouse has for dessert? (5-4)

8 Do the same when I get married, concealing the fact (7)

9 Heavens! Put back the drink! (7) 10 Slim, the man in red, is turning around (7)

13 A stern “The records show accumulations of work” (8)

14 Drift, which is grand at first (4) 16 What that wake in the water is for? (3,4,3)

20 The former did come out when enlarged (4)

22 Fix the room (4)

24 He got no soldiers in, chum, and that’s amazing (10)

28 A vowel in “you” (4)

29 Looking around the lake for the bird (8)

31 Because the note is genuine (7) 34 Leave in a most subservient way and don’t go through with it (4,3)

35 Starting to be irritating (7)

36 Proves to have been knitted, at the end, in blue (9)

DOWN

1 In the boot, only finding an instrument (7)

2 Have a care. He could become a pain! (7)

3 Having to sing as a tenor, one turned out badly (5)

4 Forced to mend the globe I’d broken (7)

5 When standing, reed, from the drinks (4)

6 Take in, you say, by the school (4) 7 Upbraid the agent, overwrought (7) 11 For instance, there’s a lot about dancing smoothly (6)

12 Information on – yes – the Russian Army (4)

15 Only misspelt “fruit” (4)

17 Brown, for instance, is a name you say (3)

18 A touchline (4)

19 Are running after a pip I dropped, it would seem (6)

21 Drink that gets “8”, finally, drunk (3) 22 A note telling you how old “22 Across” is? (7)

23 Take one’s breath away, making heads turn (4)

25 Back on the register of the famous (7) 26 Upsetting Simone about nothing is unpleasant (7)

27 Touched off when one came down (7) 30 Diamonds and dresses, the first fellow got away with (5) 32 A whip-round for the Roman (4) 33 So crack up again before it (4)