DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

4 Where to shoot duck in the W.

Indies (6)

7 Final defeat in a pool game, possibly? (8)

8 Song belter maybe? (6)

10 Meat that comes in pots? (5)

13 Possible barrier to free

movement? (4)

14 Try to finish fast after a setback (4)

15 Be slow to give £1 to a politician (4)

16 Age of enlightenment? (3)

17 In the pictures, a great story (4)

19 Possibly one contains a bit of veal (4)

21 Birds can be such friends! (9)

23 Drop in and see the lot (4)

24 Skills in heart surgery (4)

26 It’s a reasonable question (3)

27 An area to care about? (4)

29 Car mart maybe (4)

32 Move fast to get a small something

to chew! (4)

33 In song, it’s for ordinary people (5)

34 Unconscious of needing a rest (6)

35 Enlightenment may come so

quickly! (2,1,5)

36 Made for the top, as editor (6)

DOWN

1 Quick way to get fit by exercise (5)

2 A bit of a pig maybe sets out to live in

them (5)

3 Dear Charles has that roguish quality (4)

4 Of tribal significance, it can carry a lot (5)

5 To make a buzzer loud, takes power (4)

6 In general, like the past? (6)

9 News story about the Left? (6)

11 Member of the side (3)

12 An iron container (5)

13 Would he mend a chair when on the

road? (7)

15 Left it blazing? (3)

16 Was he wasted? (3)

18 Building a place for demolition (6)

20 At some stage, she needs a bit of love (5)

21 Female fairy abandoned by the tax

people (3)

22 Sooner than be a bit different? (3)

23 Being virginal, mistakenly chased? (6)

25 Something to pay in private (3)

28 Cherubic type highly placed in the CID (5)

30 Competitor who figured in a rail

crash? (5)

31 Fanciful stories about Smyth? (5)

32 Dispatch to the southern extremity (4)

33 Money frequently means a high

situation (4)

EASY ACROSS

4 Postage labels (6)

7 Mexican pancake (8)

8 Vulnerable (6)

10 Subside (5)

13 Ticket money (4)

14 Abominable

snowman (4)

15 Traffic marker (4)

16 Wager (3)

17 Rip (4)

19 Tea, slang (4)

21 Woodworker (9)

23 Food fish (4)

24 Singlet (4)

26 Corpulent (3)

27 Let it stand (4)

29 Single entity (4)

32 Ruminant mammal (4)

33 Backbone (5)

34 Guides (6)

35 In company or

conjunction (8)

36 Emergency (6)

DOWN

1 Homeless dog (5)

2 Big (5)

3 Sagacious (4)

4 Devil (5)

5 Skin problem (4)

6 Favour (6)

9 Builds (6)

11 Beseech (3)

12 Strong person (5)

13 Without end (7)

15 Head covering (3)

16 Exclude (3)

18 Pencil rubber (6)

20 Angry, excited (3,2)

21 Incision (3)

22 Mesh (3)

23 Deposit on teeth (6)

25 Rubbish holder (3)

28 Tries out (5)

30 Dark period (5)

31 Boy’s name (5)

32 Lairs (4)

33 Garden hut (4)