CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Elects to change for the best ( 6)

7 Where there’s room, but it’s tough ( 2,3,3)

8 Not a leg side stroke? Well, just a bit ( 6)

10 With military detachment, the doctor’s stern ( 5) 13 Tom’s not in love with this garment ( 4) 14 Screamfor the fifty quid ( 4) 15 Toilet product in a dental clinic ( 4)

16 Tantrum, just a bit of petulance ( 3) 17 Composition for a learner, but it’s still hard ( 4) 19 Units forming a reserve ( 4) 21 Used a bent ploy in betting? ( 7,2)

23 Many a service the housewife can do ( 4) 24 Suffered in terrible distress ( 4)

26 Major, often in a hole ( 3) 27 To approve what’s removed ( 4)

29 Many a birdwould see it as food ( 4)

32 Only half delivery, it’s true ( 4)

33 Make a feast of a bone ( 5) 34 See red about a rotten rag ( 6)

35 The plane crash one never forgets ( 8)

36 Mental dullness leads to much faulty posture ( 6)

DOWN

1 Close enough to breathe on a chap ( 5)

2 Get free and go quietly ( 5) 3 One of a pair of socks ( 4)

4 Theremay be a film on it ( 5) 5 Hit up a half century, frequently ( 4)

6 Grounds that have a hundred and one uses ( 6) 9 Front put up by a soccer rebel? ( 6)

11 Textile salesman? ( 3) 12 Confound the girl - she gets nothing right! ( 5)

13 In the theatre, a chap with a vocation? ( 7)

15 Bill picked up in mistake for a bat! ( 3)

16 Go out of shape, possibly ( 3) 18 Waterborne gambler? ( 6) 20 Barnaby’s a character ( 5) 21 It gets an early break ( 3) 22 It has a camel’s tail and a kangaroo’s head! ( 3) 23 Kind of French coin! ( 6) 25 Some tribunal at Chelsea, perhaps ( 3) 28 Mandatory method? ( 5) 30 Navigational aid for a woman in a car ( 5) 31 Stolen property ( like footwear?) ( 5)

32 Simply accompany a seductivewoman ( 4)

33 As eaten by a bachelor as an afterthought? ( 4)