SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Be taking a call and not going to pieces (7,2) 8 Storm, but take off some weight (7)

9 Turns out the containers are for birds (7) 10 A dish breaker (7)

13 Remodelled and given legally to (4,4) 14 Complain about the means of travel (4)

16 A bouncy tune? (6,4)

20 Be inclined to wait on (4)

22 Portion out the said food (4)

24 Not a new addition to the staff? (6-4) 28 Stretch back and give out (4)

29 Do they have green combs? (8)

31 Notes one makes an effort (7)

34 Is the only payment he gets a rum mixed with his tea? (7)

35 Turn a clergyman against love? That’s ludicrous! (7)

36 Won’t work on the Dante translation: it’s unnecessary (3,6)

DOWN

1 Bet the semi-retirement will be early (7)

2 In pieces, because inferior (7)

3 I was obliged to turn, having nothing, to the state (5)

4 Comes by, about to enquire about items for the car (7)

5 Though a little less than luxurious, it is an asset (4)

6 So tough and heartless with us (4)

7 Said angrily: “It’s all very confused” (7) 11 Thrust back the trap on the edge (6)

12 “A difficulty? Not a bit of it!” you say (4) 15 Long article on heating (4)

17 Having something to eat right by the jetty (3) 18 Object I ran into, backing (4)

19 Talk not translated for the Frenchman (6) 21 Not one, you say, is in order (3)

22 See how long it takes only to get us a stand in (7)

23 Drop and damage (4)

25 Portray badly the girl in the cot, playing (7) 26 Old, but oddly nice, tattered tan jacket (7) 27 Deprived of the father wanted so much? (7) 30 A new driver taking a car out: a girl (5) 32 Meal one has when the men leave the plant (4)

33 Said the flare-up had been observed (4)