CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 One may have kept a watch on him (6)

7 To disturb the rest before you go, is an offence (8)

8 Grab a few eggs (6)

10 Shout for food and drink (5)

13 Chimney lining (4)

14 What predators do in the Catskills (4)

15 They’re cossetted in carpet slippers (4)

16 Spray something black? (3)

17 Many a dirty dog’s expression of displeasure (4)

19 A blemish you’ll notice (4)

21 Like the agonised cries father let out (9)

23 Knox, for instance (4)

24 Ali’s girl? (4)

26 Handle in beastly fashion (3)

27 At that time, one hotel in ten (4)

29 Catch an unwary rat on the piano (4)

32 See a chap getting dressed (4)

33 How can you make a feast merely on a bone? (5)

34 It’s the arrangement for payments (6)

35 Considering one’s family during a bad night (8)

36 Subtle, fishy invitation to have a bite? (6)

DOWN

1 Rod will be faithful (5)

2 Flat from which a woman has been left out twice? (5)

3 One used by a rider in raising the stirrups? (4)

4 A royal meeting calls for new coats (5)

5 A fight, but about nothing (4)

6 Music for an extraterrestrial, possibly in outer space (6)

9 Casualties, one of which may be termed dead (6)

11 Successful new thing, obviously not NG (3)

12 The senior of two fielders (5)

13 Calmed down and paid up (7)

15 Figures on the golf course (3)

16 Write a little bit (3)

18 Something shaky, we hear (6)

20 China, silver, or possibly glass (5)

21 The method of a showman (3)

22 Flat plane piece used in surfing (3)

23 If lace is woven this way, it’s easy (6)

25 Master coming to a mistaken conclusion? (3)

28 That which is more likely to reduce speed (5)

30 Quick and quiet in attack (5)

31 The not exactly podgy associate of Bess (5)

32 It goes to church, note (4)

33 James’s contribution to ribbon development (4)