WEE THINKER

Across

Arrange a trip for an animal (5) 8 Help the French undergraduate to right part of bike (9) 9 Knock section of the defence (7) Fool doesn’t finish minute phrase (5) Extend a chain around villa (5) Toil, getting a new motto (6) Criticises roofing material (6) Hide note inside some yarn (5) Danes out of mountains (5) I render translation more like a dweeb (7) Tidings of lightning? (9) Once ordered small ice creams (5) 5 10 11 13 16 18 20 22 24 25

Down

1 Race had become a farce (7) 2 Sending in claim, I am opposed (8) 3 Request large vegetable outside (4) 4 Calms down a beast,

somehow (6) 5 Rats share characteristics

with gold (8) 6 Spirit of superiority (4) 7 Strolls around what sounds like Italian capitals (5) 12 Strains a form of

workmen (8)

Across

3 Freewheel (5) 9 Avoid attention (3,3) 10 Fruit type (6) 11 Breathe noisily when asleep (5) 12 Burden (4) 15 Inn (6) 17 Intrude on (7) 19 Man’s name (3) 20 Goes by boat (5) 22 Holler (5) 24 Vote in (5) 25 American state (5) 27 Point a weapon (3) 29 Young hare (7) 32 Spiritualists meeting (6) 34 Rise and fall of the sea (4) 14 Camera in operation from

across the ocean (8) 15 Building in any rebellion (7) 17 Small wines turn out to be

sources of strength (6) 19 Marvellous witchcraft (5) 21 Crude antlers around head

(4) 23 Drifting round chasm (4) 35 Widespread destruction (5) 37 Editions (6) 38 Wanderers (6) 39 Prepared (5)

Down 1 Deluge (5) 2 Planet (5) 3 Lettuce (3) 4 Legal possessors (6) 5 Type, kind (4) 6 Golden syrup (7) 7 Prepare to pray (5) 8 Blood vessels (5) 13 Nightdress, informally (7) 14 Swagger (5) 16 Responded (7) 18 Trite, commonplace (5) 21 Precipitation (5) 23 Educator (7) 26 Unit of time (6) 27 Afoot (5) 28 Low-lying waterlogged ground (5) 30 Competitor (5) 31 Tantalise (5) 33 Facility (4) 36 Shy (3)