CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Come down and get nothing

in exchange (5)

8 Saint of the dance? (5) 10 Land or crash the plane (5) 11 Joe North’s spirit (3)

12 If wrong, a chap gets punished (5)

13 An ass in Belgium (7) 15 Dragon country (5)

18 Not the whole area (3) 19 Though erotic, she was nothing for males to be mad about (6)

21 Play around in the corner,

obviously (7)

22 The menagerie lake? (4) 23 Full of sauce during supper

time (4)

24 There’s a little thought for

each cry (7)

26 If getting back into port, somehow, there’s an advantage (6)

29 It’s apt to become attached

to you, naturally (3)

31 The stuff a saint is made of?

(5)

32 Criticised a wild breed touring

the kingdom (7)

34 Three could put you to sleep!

(5)

35 It’s bad when there’s a missing part (3)

36 Where the French get sick at

heart? (5)

37 Passes soccer supporters

may be crying out for? (5) 38 Do they sound a bit clumsy to

a doctor? (5)

DOWN

1 Indicates that one is literate?

(5)

2 It’s edgy where there’s a chance of falling overboard (7)

4 Punitive politician? (4)

5 The only system for avoiding

head-on collision? (3-3) 6 Something sustaining,

perhaps, for the pianist (5) 7 Where to keep women in their

place! (5)

9 A blue one is hardly great for

the ornithologist (3)

12 Fighter adapted for shifting

cargo (7)

14 A long time in the rain (3) 16 Figure in a new role as Romeo

(5)

17 Stalls Tessa deviously! (5) 19 Rumbles terribly in one’s

sleep! (7)

20 Plenty of shape, perhaps (5) 21 Giver of guidance to one

entering a scheme (5) 23 Pearl’s upset about us having

an examination (7)

24 Gain success over one’s better half once a year (6) 25 Public figures absent from

the boozer (3)

27 Quick to do something about

a drip (5)

28 Distraught, I fled the scene of

battle (5)

30 Did she finish in an out-ofthe-way sort of house? (5) 32 Morning paper? Not entirely

(4)

33 People of the inconclusive

kind? (3)