SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Don’t have to make an exit? (2,7)

8 Around five to four it’s true there’s a recovery (7)

9 Find and tell to be careful (4,3) 10 Transmitted earlier now (7)

13 Make ridiculous claims about the Spanish lovers: ridiculous (8)

14 Hitch the horse to the pole (4)

16 And the pug isn’t frisking about, though not lying down (8,2)

20 About six months getting back (4) 22 Getting Art to begin again with the others (4)

24 Picture wearing a dress, in the garden (10) 28 After which, we’re told, it’s all downhill, pet (4)

29 That’s nothing to the love light when about to woo (8)

31 Romance Daffy Hunt’s written about the depression (7)

34 After the talk, allow to return to the property (7)

35 He acts oddly: the pupil with the bag (7) 36 When the red is flickering, pull back or pay no attention (9)

DOWN

1 Silly song that’s captivated everybody – or whole lot (7)

2 A room we let out in Australia (7)

3 See the drunk outside, standing in the shed (5)

4 It flies in from Ecuador to land here (7)

5 Net that should be raised a bit (4)

6 The girl let it slip (4)

7 Talk about a figure that’s an American record (7)

11 Angry, caught the creature and spoke harshly to it (6)

12 Move the row of shrubs for the Cockney (4) 15 Shouldn’t it be “is a zone”? (4)

17 Said it’s a drink stand (3)

18 A few lines or less than that of music (4) 19 Put in with the sun still out (6)

21 “A bash” in the past (3)

22 Ask about Queer Street (7)

23 Does better than in the return, you see (4) 25 Bounds and capers wildly around the central point (7)

26 Leave on the date I arranged, from the plant (7)

27 Annoyed, had wanted a litre put in (7) 30 Talk to and are worried by (5)

32 It’s very hard, which does surprise you (4) 33 Claimed to have been captured (4)