CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 In court, claim legal trickery’s a foregone conclusion! (6) 7 The remaining six balls are not required (4,4) 8 Admire the sound team that gets the points (6) 10 Mention rugged peaks? (5) 13 Starting tomorrow, work in diplomacy (4) 14 The normal Romes for Catherine (4) 15 The inlet where the water was hot? (4) 16 Fuss made by the inner man at a party (3) 17 Though Stephen’s no chicken, there’s some progress (4) 19 The suburb for Parisians with flighty ideas? (4) 21 One strongly instrumental in building a tower amid water? (5,4) 23 It has its point in traffic control (4) 24 Medium colours (4) 26 Bathing club? (3) 27 Small part of a potato masher (4) 29 I have a shot at a villain (4) 32 What some of the Eskimos do with milk? (4) 33 One of those high spirits (5) 34 Say no to what you don’t want (6) 35 Team of highwaymen, by the way? (8) 36 Was set apart in inhospitable areas (6)

DOWN

1 Embrace many misguided pals (5)

2 Seeking the best conclusion, possibly in fear (5)

3 Appear to have left nothing good (4)

4 Exist as regions (5)

5 A foreigner to allow to be heard (4)

6 Avaricious man in grey (6)

9 Place of learning, possibly of thought (6)

11 Apt to make a little butter (3)

12 Crime engendering much heatedness (5)

13 Tramp drunkenly around the Waterloo terminus bar (7)

15 We go to central Tottenham very little! (3) 16 It helps in swallowing the lot! (3)

18 A twister does so suddenly, perhaps painfully (6)

20 It’s applied to violin strings and possibly irons (5)

21 Shoot for a hunter’s prize (3)

22 He’s always short of time (3)

23 Its shutter works snappily (6)

25 Some of the ravages of time! (3)

28 Not binders, but seating arrangements (5)

30 Not for the first time, one takes the profit (5)

31 Some petrol derivative we all live to get (5)

32 On us, perhaps, it will fit (4)

33 Supports in the construction of a dais (4)