CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Worker given gold or silver

sometimes (5)

8 It’s useful for sleeping out, perhaps, in part of Tufnell Park (5)

10 Step on it in haste (5)

11 Is wrong, by the way (3) 12 Line that’s gold, but turns

red (5)

13 Do they advise people to

take to the hills? (7) 15 They’re decisively burnt (5) 18 Everything needed for a

normal life (3)

19 Such surgeons often look

down in the mouth (6)

2 1 Looking ugly, hides out for

half an hour (7)

22 Be inclined to need support

(4)

23 Soon fixed (4)

24 Head branches (7)

26 The lighter parts? (6)

29 Live with a warm-hearted

Oriental (3)

31 Serious enough to make one

late (5)

32 Teacher with only one shoe?

(7)

34 Beaten by a named master

(5)

35 Obtained an article from

Billy or Nanny (3)

36 Scoring shots? (5)

37 Old King Cole’s string trio? (5)

38 Baffle the batsman? (5)

DOWN

1 ransport services to Beachy Head (5)

2 Hold that Nat gets agitated when there’s money around (7) 4 Mum gets only half of hers,

but it’s heavenly (4)

5 Where the ancients hadn’t the right to make sherbet? (6)

6 Indian Lake (5)

7 She has great potential (5) 9 Like silver, it meant money

(3)

12 It makes a change from

Salerno (7)

14 Very experienced in wool

dyeing (3)

16 It’s bound to be cartographical (5)

17 Is there no credit in wiping it

clean? (5)

19 He’s a dud, taking in what

may be all right (7) 20 Richard’s bluff? (5) 21 Breathe a little, as is the

custom (5)

23 It’s carried once more in

battle (7)

24 Ultimately, the Titan gets to

tango (2,4)

25 A bit deranged for a time (3) 27 Has she a light-headed air

about her? (5)

28 They identify men as unstable! (5)

30 It measures the diameter

without any possible aid (5) 32 Name for an extract of buttermilk (4)

33 Neither number’s right (3)