CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
4 Where the slugs may spell danger? (6)
7 Does it float through the air? (8)
8 Thanks for mashing the rest of the spuds (6)
10 Path that leads everybody to extremes of ecstasy (5)
13 Her choice is between a dizzy head and a heavy heart (4)
14 They look mousy in a big way (4)
15 Forename of Turner (4)
16 Determined to get all one needs (3)
17 Oil’s obtainable from the earth (4)
19 Suffered a personal loss (4)
21 Angry exclamation used by sailor folk (9)
23 Letters initially relating to tax (4)
24 To get a tin-opener to work requires a certain finesse (4)
26 One person’s contribution to many (3)
27 A colour of historic eminence (4)
29 Catch the part that breaks (4)
32 The way to make one stick around (4)
33 Drunkard with little money but a certain amount of sense (5)
34 Creating a masterly monarch (6)
35 A calculated balance (8)
36 Though angry, he’d be about to make fresh tea (6)
DOWN
1 Mark gets a ring from him (5)
2 Turn, possibly flat out, making an error (5)
3 Work for fun (4)
4 Make progress at a good school (3,2)
5 Roll up a hill (4)
6 Worked for a named listener (6)
9 Foreign piece of bric-a-brac, intricately worked (6)
11 It gets a racing driver nowhere! (3)
12 On paper, a try (5)
13 Opened up, as one did when about to be late (7)
15 It’s used in electroplating (3) 16 Three points to give Arsenal heart - and money! (3)
18 The state Reg is in (6)
20 Game that can mean money to a German (5) 21 Beat Nathaniel up! (3)
22 Scottish regional side giving thanks for a happy ending (3)
23 Posh place for dad to do up (6)
25 Possibly poisonous talk? (3)
28 Stormed at a poor newspaper editor! (5)
30 Inventor of a form of cubism? (5)
31 She has very little money (5)
32 Trouble composing a trio (4)
33 Thus, a piano is associated with opera (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 1. Clamps 7. Port-RA-it 8. P-ose 10. Shirty 11. Si-MP-le 14. Key 16. Dosed 17. Se-ed 19. M-owed 21. C-owes 22. Mapl-E 23. P-elf 26. Pop up 28. Hal 29. A-n-imal 30. Retain 31. Amen 32. S-cholars 33. Pistol.
DOWN: 1. Ca-us-es 2. Moo-red 3. Spey 4. Strides 5. R-amps 6. St-eed 8. Pike 9. Sty 12. MOD 13. L-Eve-L 15. B-owls 18. E-lto-N 19. Mop 20. Wee 21. Cap-able 22. Mum 23. Paters 24. Elan 25. Fingal 26. Palsy 27. Pit-h-y 28. Hem 30. Rasp.