CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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34 35 36 1 2 3 4 Wild chants heard but briefly (6)

Superior piece of boxing? (8)

Cookers, perhaps, or stairs (6)

The fashionable sound (5) A positive sign (4) Rubbish may be shot here (4)

Become tall and seedy (4) Be noted as the busy type (3)

Deliveries done with? (4) Reputed to be unhappy touring India (4) Indicates the fielder’s in a deeper position (6,3) Indiscreet record? (4) Called deranged, indeed! (4) Bathe with a girl on the quiet (3)

Loathsome fellow with a warty skin (4)

Give me back the thing in question (4)

He’s in jug! (4)

Liable to be flat on one’s face (5)

Back out of some business (6)

As sung when the birds are on key? (4,4)

To attack by air may be faster (6)

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Explode or shatter outright (5)

Dad turns up with his little pest! (5)

Roguish as a duke, for instance? (4)

Point to a high seat (5) 5 6

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20 21 22 Pals in high places (4) Manned by crude sounding sailors (6) Assumes the pun is about a drunken sot (4,2) Oriental vessel acceptable to the West (3) Frightens the cat (5) Show how to make a strong wine light (7)

Little man with bigheaded ways (3)

Just a little exorbitant? (3) He presumably has winning ways (6)

Argue irrationally, having a screwy point (5) Timely sound, maybe followed by a squeak (3) Dashed halfway back when dejected (3)