CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 3 Choose to read from the lectern (5) 8 Table used by a novice sailor? (5) 10 Reason to go wrong in certain figures (5) 11 Decoration added to a drinking place (3) 12 Wherein to find art in hairdressing? (5) 13 Soft part of a flower, imaginably pink (7) 15 French town with ivy rambling round the church (5) 18 That woman’s always contradicting him! (3) 19 From memory, say (6) 21 Growing sources of food and drink? (7) 22 Can such a race be a bore? (4) 23 Trumpeter’s name (4) 24 Joined in needlework? (7) 26 Wild caper with an abrupt end flat on the floor (6) 29 Over five less (3) 31 Is it among the less enterprising cities? (5) 32 You’ll get quickly to its North End (7) 34 For one to get a broken leg, may be obtuse (5) 35 Love of money (3) 36 The kind of thread I sell for weaving (5) 37 Girls having the same name as old Indian coppers (5) 38 Censure stonily (5)

DOWN 1 Saintly restatement of the banal (5) 2 A growth, maybe, in the porcine population (7) 4 One misleading you into returning by rail? (4) 5 They add spiciness to many amours (6) 6 Medicine you can never quite get on tick (5) 7 A night in Scotland, not in Germany (5) 9 Colour of a sheet anchor? (3) 12 Devilish tempting creature? (7) 14 In the past, it meant ‘hip’ (3) 16 Quoted from an edict? (5) 17 The old-fashioned chaps in the country (5) 19 Renovate and put back in stock (7) 20 Draw information from a letter to Mussolini (5) 21 Piano music for duos (5) 23 Character of anybody middle-class (7) 24 Ken, backed up by Len, makes a shelter (6) 25 Like a shirt off the peg? (3) 27 Savoury jelly with some minced capsicum (5) 28 Rings friends out East (5) 30 It’s a long way, so fares are reduced! (2,3) 32 Scheme to finish up with a fortune (4) 33 Quantity of plutonium (3)