CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
4 Walks or takes public transport around Clapham central (6)
7 Tubes of paste (8)
8 Such acid makes an expert
twitch! (6)
10 A dish alas spoilt by hundreds (5)
13 Produced sound bread (4)
14 Endlessly stupid place for a
window box? (4)
15 Source of tar or possibly
some alcohol (4)
16 Work in a factory (3)
17 Divorce would be too much
for him (4)
19 The attraction of a new rule
(4)
21 Speak too strongly because
of bad taste? (9)
23 Some of the prettiest things
to wear (4)
24 Can be bitten, though cutting is appropriate (4)
26 The friend father left (3)
27 Catch and knock out a
redhead! (4)
29 Dizzy dame in a red coat (4) 32 What “raining hard” could
imaginably mean? (4)
33 A stiffener or two (5)
34 Seen to be in hand (6)
35 Plant providing the horticultural place with an excellent return (8)
36 One employing the ablest
lads? (6)
DOWN
1 Collect a choral work (5)
2 Oar said to belong to jolly
Roger (5)
3 The young Mr Pitt (4)
4 It’s up to an academician to provide something topping! (5)
5 Though elderly, managed
without a husband (4)
6 He gets what the shop charges when about to close down (6)
9 A low place with a good
stock of wine (6)
11 It can help if you turn up the
radiator a bit (3)
12 Alert to one evil possibility
(5)
13 A starting place for correction treatment (7)
15 Crikey, a French horn! (3)
16 It’s a measure of land, dearest heart! (3)
18 Could such virgins use
valets? (6)
20 Articulate, say (5)
21 Ring the film centre for hairdressing (3)
22 It’s apt to be turned on (3)
23 What you need to write a
story for the theatre (6)
25 Would a tartan lining suit it?
(3)
28 Ride around the Hog’s Back,
it being high ground (5)
30 Put off a letter to a relative
(5)
31 A putty one isn’t exactly
metal! (5)
32 Mother Brown’s little boy?
(4)
33 Restful little county (4)