CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Elects to change for the best (6) 7 Where there’s room, but it’s tough (2,3,3) 8 Not a leg side stroke? Well, just a bit (6) 10 With military detachment, the doctor’s stern (5) 13 Tom’s not in love with this garment (4) 14 Scream for the fifty quid (4) 15 Toilet product in a dental clinic (4) 16 Tantrum, just a bit of petulance (3) 17 Composition for a learner, but it’s still hard (4) 19 Units forming a reserve (4) 21 Used a bent ploy in betting? (7,2) 23 Many a service the housewife can do (4) 24 Suffered in terrible distress (4) 26 Major, often in a hole (3) 27 To approve what’s removed (4) 29 Many a bird would see it as food (4) 32 Only half delivery, it’s true (4) 33 Make a feast of a bone (5) 34 See red about a rotten rag (6) 35 The plane crash one never forgets (8) 36 Mental dullness leads to much faulty posture (6)

DOWN

1 Close enough to breathe on a chap (5) 2 Get free and go quietly (5) 3 One of a pair of socks (4) 4 There may be a film on it (5) 5 Hit up a half century, frequently (4) 6 Grounds that have a hundred and one uses (6) 9 Front put up by a soccer rebel? (6) 11 Textile salesman? (3) 12 Confound the girl - she gets nothing right! (5) 13 In the theatre, a chap with a vocation? (7) 15 Bill picked up in mistake for a bat! (3) 16 Go out of shape, possibly (3) 18 Waterborne gambler? (6) 20 Barnaby’s a character (5) 21 It gets an early break (3) 22 It has a camel’s tail and a

kangaroo’s head! (3) 23 Kind of French coin! (6) 25 Some tribunal at Chelsea, perhaps (3) 28 Mandatory method? (5) 30 Navigational aid for a woman in a car (5) 31 Stolen property (like footwear?) (5) 32 Simply accompany a seductive woman (4) 33 As eaten by a bachelor as an afterthought? (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 4. Select 7. At the top 8. Off-cut 10. Dr.-aft 13. C-O-at 14. Ye-LL 15. Talc 16. Pet 17. Op.-a-L 19. A-res. 21. Doubled up 23. D-a-RN 24. Bled 26. Key 27. To-OK 29. Grub 32. Very 33. Beano 34. Re-gar-d 35. Elephant 36. Stupor

DOWN: 1. H-Andy 2. Steal 3. Left 4. Spool 5. L-oft 6. C-a-uses 9. FA-Cade 11. Rep 12. Flo-O-R 13. Call-boy 15. Tab 16. Pep 18. Punter 20. Rudge 21. Day 22. El-k 23. De-cent 25. Bun 28. Order 30. R-Ada-R 31. Booty 32. Vamp 33. BA-PS