CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Go back on the revision of a

decree (6)

7 Tubes of pasta (8)

8 Port authority police, still

unmoved (6)

10 All-round measurement (5) 13 Trees on the bowling green?

(4)

14 Past being in love, really? (4) 15 In the Foreign Office, short

measure of sherry (4) 16 Permitted amount of

double-talk (3)

17 Is again on the river (4) 19 Maybe like port (4)

21 It gets a driver nowhere

faster than ever (3,6)

23 Haul around in a dance (4) 24 It’s leonine, but may be

horsy (4)

26 Rob a fool? (3)

27 Fellow taking a piano to

church! (4)

29 He made no exclamation

when there was a flood (4) 32 Like the years it takes to get

slim? (4)

33 One of the fabrics a drill

sergeant possesses (5) 34 Stop making a boy sit awkwardly (6)

35 Where weddings are concerned, the colourful bits (8)

36 Food constituent that can

make a saint roguish! (6)

DOWN

1 Grub that’s eventually

become perfect! (5)

2 Mark takes new heart from

this narrow escape (5) 3 Knowing what may be Norman (4)

4 In Yorkshire, where there’s little money in wrought iron (5)

5 See a boy’s covered (4)

6 Go motoring with a novice?

Nonsense! (6)

9 Regard as a spectator (4,2) 11 Girl of four, starting young

(3)

12 Experimental new trail (5) 13 Mine was transformed by a

clever fellow (4,3)

15 It grows in the south of Iran

(3)

16 Guided by a little light (3) 18 Areas where saints are out

of step (6)

20 She shows anger over a

piece of news (5)

21 Pull some plugs out (3) 22 Surpass, possibly at cricket

or baseball (3) 23 Live in pain, nominally (6) 25 A man of conviction (3) 28 Hole in the wall used by the

hat check girl (5)

30 Speak of a zero charge (5) 31 The man needs 59 in spiral

form (5)

32 He is, as he sounds, a bit

unreliable! (4)

33 The easy way to play piano

(4)