SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gathered into a circle? (7,2)

8 Check the story (7)

9 Or play and kid about in the garden (3-4)

10 The bird gets scrap after scrap (7)

13 Rescue half the animals in it and sum up the situation again (8) 14 The others resume before Art (4)

16 Where the animals are free to roam in Dorset, perhaps (4,6)

20 Inside, dear, there is a fuel (4)

22 Right out of fruit and vegetables (4)

24 She wears uniform: it’s a terrible waste getting a new dress (10) 28 Photograph a tot (4) 29 Making a grave mistake about an ailing countryman (8)

31 Asked about the equipment for the soldiers (7)

34 Are amassing money to set aside for a purpose (7)

35 Left out a gull egg to be cooked for the traveller (7)

36 Finds, too, in the records (9)

DOWN

1 Abandoned the pursuit (7)

2 Not realising the time, pale and turn back (7) 3 Lets go of the sweets (5)

4 The one who gets the actors up is not the callboy! (7)

5 Hand over the pickle (4)

6 Not being good, broke (4)

7 From the beginning, we stood in for him (7) 11 Drink up, fine lady (6) 12 Said it’s a Conservative tradition (4) 15 Rushed off in despair, thoroughly shaken (4) 17 She’s not very bright (3)

18 Unduly quick, which is an irritation (4)

19 Due to be demolished around the second, was forced to leave (6)

21 The girl gets the leftover goose (3)

22 Spotted bird, featherless (7)

23 Drink when? At halftime (4)

25 Was “12” wrong in having attendants? (7) 26 Make an impression, being serious, on most of the men (7)

27 Is out when one knocks (7)

30 Slowly taking a key from the quaking gaoler (5)

32 In return, urge one to keep a promise (4) 33 Said I’d been seen (4)