CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Does such a hit mean great

success in tennis? (5)

8 It can be cooked with some

canned potatoes (5)

10 The ability to be soft on a

debtor? (5)

11 Drink a quarter-pint each (3) 12 Fish possibly bronze, or

maybe amber (5)

13 The more difficult method is

a rocky road (4,3)

15 Again pretend to respond

(5)

18 Piece of brass in a vice (3) 19 Only a fool would jeer about

a saint (6)

21 Like the mushrooms I had for sheer pleasure on leave (7)

22 The captain, it seems, is a

little jumpy (4)

23 Cut price pins, possibly (4) 24 Let’s shuffle out and eat in

town (7)

26 Ancient city vandalised by

thanes! (6)

29 Before being in the red (3) 31 Continental railway in some

trouble (5)

32 Large basin for a plant that

needs watering? (3,4)

34 So the shiftiness is due to people’s general attitudes, etc. (5)

35 Become a bit of a fidget (3) 36 Play a woman on court (5) 37 By getting ahead, he became

president (5)

38 Their tread, on the road, is

endless (5)

DOWN

1 South African boys (5) 2 Makes one’s burden a lot greater? (5,2)

4 One girl’s name for army

manoeuvres (4)

5 Not punished for ruining the

drapes (6)

6 In residential places, he’s

out of order (5)

7 Hundreds of pounds? (5) 9 By being desperate at heart

(3)

12 They’re nice and round and have nothing to do with broken legs! (7)

14 Pole going to the West

Indies to find success (3) 16 A sound way to put things

right (5)

17 Travel to the end of the line

for food (5)

19 The nervous anxiety associable with bugs? (7)

20 As a religion, one grand success (5)

21 Struggle to change a gift,

being out of breath! (5) 23 Vehicles with a bend to the

left at the sides (7) 24 Conceited, albeit vulgar? (6) 25 Poetry without a well-known

writer, or an essay (3) 27 Possibly sent out East for

years (5)

28 Build in Crete, perhaps (5) 30 A player of current prominence (5)

32 Many an individual gets

cheated (4)

33 Finished in a canoe race (3)