CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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36 37 38 1 2 Something hard to pinch, we hear (5) Communication by road, perhaps, around India (5) Catches with spikes (5) Just the chap to figure ahead (3) Vituperous about the vermin? (5)

Welsh theatrical assistant? (7)

Do they go round cooking the roast? (5)

A pet to many? (3) Legislators a chap has to check out (6) Acceptable new belt for a woman to appear in (7) It’s no good being needy (4) Michael Barrymore’s island? (4)

Apt to get knocked over, maybe likes to be out of the race (7)

You can count on it (6) Certainly didn’t reveal some fresh ideas (3)

Does he govern where to draw the line? (5) Having broken the pen rest, is contrite (7) Seeking to get astonishingly fat on a half of beer! (5) A little bounder; bit of a crook (3)

Run after James Hadley (5) A joint the Spanish bend (5) One can never make it right! (5)

DOWN

Quiet, unusually dear sky pilot (5)

I leave a cleric in church (7) 4 5

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21 Rush, causing damage (4) Portion of green plant served at table (6) Provide or supply only a blend (3,2)

What a drifter will do, making love flat out (5) Female, yet named John? (3) Observations concerning points (7)

His song never ends (3) Four-legged source of a bleat? (5)

It’s a bit of a bloomer, boys! (5)

Hitler’s disastrous slide (7) Being on the male side, it has point (5)

To talk incessantly, that’s all (5)