CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 You might take the plunge with one (6)

7 Great place for a holiday? (8)

8 Sportingly, he may take second place (6) 10 Shows appreciation of many a footnote (5) 13 Delivered some books for our sailors (4)

14 Haul around in a dance (4) 15 Earn as manufacturer? (4) 16 Get free (3)

17 I’m in bad with the mob! (4) 19 Box of spares? (4) 21 Where electricity is involved in a nasty death (9)

23 Was soft on a rugby player! (4)

24 They have their place on the table (4)

26 Shadowy figures (3)

27 In a cheap example, it’s high (4)

29 Throw into pits, maybe (4) 32 Only half of us are able to read (4)

33 Brown, the flier circling the flight centre (5) 34 Confesses it’s mad to mess about (6)

35 Wee drams for the kiddies (4,4)

36 When young, went in for noiseless typing (6)

DOWN

1 Execute badly (5) 2 A three-man experiment? (5)

3 An outstanding manager? (4)

4 Rattled with a flurry of hooks (5)

5 Legal right to deceive the

National Front (4)

6 Joint holder (6) 9 Possibly pester to get something fixed in advance (6) 11 Pull up in the regular place (3)

12 Standard Anglo Saxon soldiers (5)

13 Crazy fellows running to and fro? (7)

15 The Beatles’ absorbing style? (3)

16 Gainsay the good (3) 18 The effect, on one politician, of a piece of legislation? (6) 20 Do note that it’s old-fashioned (5) 21 Non-vegetarian corn (3) 22 Charge across at the end of the street! (3)

23 What to open for a breath of air at the town centre (6) 25 Like a capital double G (3) 28 Pale as Patsy may be (5) 30 One giving guidance to a sanctimonious set? (5) 31 Tax exempt female? (5) 32 Put one’s name in neon, perhaps? (4)

33 They insist on being themselves! (4)