CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 A girl to help clean your teeth? (5)

8 River where mum takes Jack out (5)

10 Is paddling one a piece of cake for a girl? (5)

11 It’s driven with some care (3)

12 Land where one lives, being permitted (5)

13 Yellow chair painter (3,4)

15 False thatching on one place (5)

18 The botanist’s beard? (3)

19 Her need is unusual (6)

21 Get someone on your side to do well at bowling? (3,4)

22 Rugby hero? (4)

23 Is it torn from the tenant? (4)

24 To sift the remains can be something instructive (7)

26 Puts on by degrees? (6)

29 Did the spadework (3)

31 Those possibly set in a row of four? (5)

32 In lemon squash, a bit of thymol as medicinal ingredient (7)

34 Does it get narrower as it burns? (5)

35 Chap in a mix-up (3)

36 Part of Apache America in

Greater London (5)

37 Ned and me back in Germany (5)

38 The older Roosevelt as a little boy (5)

DOWN

1 It has vivid plumage and a masterly cry (5)

2 So cheap as to preclude profit? (7)

4 Attach by whipping? (4)

5 Joint holder (6) 6 Pulsating stuff? (5)

7 Stories returned unedited (5)

9 In a European country, he may be in grey (3)

12 Avoids wild regions (7)

14 Have circular bearings (3)

16 He can’t be a keeper! (5)

17 Egg containers in the plainest sense (5)

19 It settles the issue in a manner possibly decried (7)

20 The blowing up of a dam? (5)

21 She’s in a woolly-headed state (5)

23 Music for the occasion of students’ fun? (7)

24 A plant ma sees in a new light (6)

25 She makes a point repeatedly about being superior (3)

27 Things are so difficult if you’re drunk! (5)

28 Reach and grab a shirt tail (3,2)

30 Picture one in a mount (5)

32 Beverage ingeniously made (4)

33 Kept being caught? (3)