CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Imagine a little drink out

East (5)

8 Though beneficial, a burden

to a bighead (5)

10 It’s a different thing when it

falls (5)

11 Prisoner of the Gulag (3) 12 Crowned heads at college

(5)

13 Got mixed up with Ted Lang

(7)

15 A little tiny piece, you’ll

admit (3,2)

18 No ecclesiastical letter from

lady (3)

19 Being calm, sneer wryly as

the race finishes (6) 21 Dishes up anew an out-ofthe-way repast (7)

22 Rush at a mad rate (4) 23 The cheapest part is better

avoided (4)

24 As worn for act four, perhaps? (3,4)

26 Beer or punch (6)

29 People who never have a

weekend out! (3)

31 Seen staggering round the

bend so as to follow (5) 32 In circulation in a big way

(2,5)

34 I’m past being a perfect

creature! (5)

35 Pass as an officer (3) 36 Avoid by a trick (5)

37 Tip of a plant? (5)

38 The sort of man targeted?

(5)

DOWN

1 It’s a big thing in dentistry

(5)

2 An expert at throwing and catching (7)

4 Operation for which you

need the right backup (4) 5 Catches fish by degrees? (6) 6 Skinflint getting faultless

service on the motorway (5) 7 It has links with the mail,

maybe (5)

9 Grandma’s bread? (3) 12 Notably tense and ready to

play (5,2)

14 It gets a racing driver nowhere (3)

16 Belief in looking unmoved

when given a rise? (5) 17 Whence, in Wales, a new hat

is on the way (5)

19 Stay with, as a loyal adherent (5,2)

20 School for love in the wild west (5)

21 Birds in bars (5)

23 Criticise long, and in dashing

style! (7)

24 Enemies of poetry? (6) 25 Natural resource maybe

helping to make millions (3) 27 Forename of the six-footer

in front (5)

28 Ludwig’s Italian (5)

30 It’s built with sound glue at

the medical centre (5) 32 Trouble from a guerilla (4) 33 A diminutive Australian

bounder (3)