CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 It can get a poker player in the money (5) 8 Temptation to keep a cool head for cash (5) 10 Materially intermingled (5) 11 Writer of effortless poetry (3) 12 Yes, boy, they’re disreputable women (5) 13 Choose one for mother –the best! (7) 15 Cards aboard ship? (5) 18 Hole in a cooking apple (3) 19 Wildly amused gorgon! (6) 21 Her sins are dealt with in holy places (7) 22 It keeps the chill out of the theatre (4) 23 A ride giving heightened

pleasure? (4) 24 Two chaps run out (7) 26 With which to rub away (6) 29 Piece of Sheraton with four legs (3) 31 In which the cowboy did his stuff for nothing? (5) 32 One is grasping but supportive (7) 34 The little pest hid behind a piano (5) 35 Substance that makes the skin waterproof (3) 36 Shiftless, even today? (5) 37 To become ecstatic without delay is out of the way! (5) 38 Cracked ewers containing dirty water? (5)

DOWN

1 Kind of fat, pet (5) 2 About to get in a fight for the goods (7) 4 Earthy, low-sounding military leader (4) 5 Foreigners rooted to the spot (6) 6 Washed down the wrong dose at the hospital, initially (5) 7 Obnoxious fellows who may get physical (5) 9 Restful place in Scotland (3) 12 Planet with a hole in the middle (7) 14 Mum has the right to spoil! (3) 16 Of high rank in the CID –immortal, in fact (5) 17 Having an oddly slaty taste? (5) 19 Encountered wild deer and measured the numbers (7) 20 At church, always, you’ll get encouragement (5) 21 With which Sarah had a piece of bread? (5) 23 Disappointed by those when failed to keep up? (3,4) 24 Pop Lee’s family? (6) 25 Organised at speed? (3) 27 They’re in the land where one was born and raised (5) 28 Prevents any escape of certain animals (5) 30 Flier for whom half a pint’s plenty (5) 32 Become weary of a complicated rite (4) 33 Where Brazil was deprived of capital (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION