SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The truth about the tundra? (5,4) 8 There are about a hundred remaining when you get back (7) 9 Pretended to have drawn up (4,3) 10 Be eager for a long time to appear in a show (7) 13 It’s without significance? Poppycock! (8) 14 It’s providence that’s brought him back (4) 16 Generous, on having lost one’s grip? (4-6) 20 Look through, though there’s a key in it (4) 22 Behind you, having a food the slimmer shouldn’t have (4) 24 The chief minister, given the opportunity, takes the list back (10) 28 Bolt you wrench off (4) 29 What the dentist wouldn’t use on a female monkey? (8) 31 A garment for which one has little time (7) 34 The puma, Leo, broke the container (7) 35 Surely with one, should one show one’s feelings? (7) 36 Worries about the darn rough in the golf course (2,7)

DOWN

1 Something to eat for the chaps in the mine, love (7) 2 Also mount up slowly (7) 3 The loop goes around in front (5) 4 Puts a shattering strain on the worker (7) 5 Coming back, share the vehicle (4) 6 What she did when the alarm went off? (4) 7 Father had it, the waster was out to squander it (7) 11 Sour when the CIA merge with the CID (6) 12 Land one right in it (4) 15 Take the wheel, mate. That’s not ice (4) 17 In “10”, the gnat got it bothered in the garden (3) 18 Register the money (4) 19 Accumulate for a company, so to speak (6) 21 I, with the point, stab (3) 22 Trip the fool up – and the judicious, too (7) 23 Shake up the beans (4) 25 Falls for Gina, who’s going out with a soldier (7) 26 The rule is amended. We drop the wee rest (7) 27 Do they wind up on the beach? (7) 30 Fooled by the fake record set up in it (5) 32 Willing to gamble (4) 33 Supporters in the stands (4)