DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

3 Madagascan primate (5)

8 Plump (5)

10 American state (5)

11 24 hours (3)

12 Movies (5)

13 Imaginary beast (7)

15 Freshwater mammal (5)

18 Spoil (3)

19 Presuppose (6)

21 Reap (7)

22 Boy’s name (4)

23 Plant ovule (4)

24 Naturists (7)

26 Public speaker (6)

29 Regret (3)

31 Group of nine (5)

32 Inorganic matter (7)

34 To mature (5)

35 Hit lightly (3)

36 Device, informally (5)

37 Greek letter (5)

38 Serpent (5)

DOWN

1 Prestige (5)

2 Very bad (7)

4 Muslim ruler (4)

5 Greatest degree (6)

6 Relaxes (5)

7 Seraglio (5)

9 Forbid (3)

12 Ardour (7)

14 Pitch (3)

16 Melodies (5)

17 Prepared (5)

19 Headache tablet (7)

20 Cutlery item (5)

21 Person (5)

23 Spire (7)

24 Idea (6)

25 Star (3)

27 Songbird (5)

28 Conditions (5)

30 Turning tool (5)

32 Humble (4)

33 Type of music (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

3 A joint close at hand (5)

8 With whom Alan tours Birkenhead (5)

10 Wader found in another one (5)

11 Vehicle taking us on a secondary road (3)

12 Can such a charge stick? (5)

13 Such beer can give courage and a dizzy head (7)

15 A point that’s sore, perhaps, will never be better (5)

18 You’ll never get much gratitude from one (3)

19 Is this piece a timepiece? (6)

21 Big and growing, Edward lacks a way to enter the back door (7)

22 Not a good way to live (4)

23 Strong dislike of hotel tea, perhaps (4)

24 A sound measure (7)

26 Able to run in the heat (6)

29 Black variety of rat (3)

31 A letter opener, perhaps (5)

32 You can play it, a mere bagatelle (7)

34 Once again figures as a keepsake (5)

35 Lawbreaker’s tool? (3)

36 Letter a deadhead may be late with (5)

37 She sang wildly about her sweetheart! (5)

38 Imaginably, a hunted animal (5)

DOWN

1 An upper member’s joint (5)

2 What W. Slater became (7)

4 Understand an article to be in red (4)

5 Revealed that one was in debt, on the quiet (6)

6 Figure more centrally as a singer (5)

7 Less of a denial? (3,2)

9 Except that retribution is far from complete (3)

12 In the middle, we note that outside may be bent (7)

14 The accolade would be too much for him (3)

16 Competitor a rail crash could dishearten? (5)

17 They’re of marginal significance (5)

19 Machiavellian figure in a doubtful topic (7)

20 Periodic payments (5)

21 Raw beginner mistaking a file for a weapon! (5)

23 In here, a container is typically green (7)

24 Lower cleric takes me in (6)

25 Refuse to allow to catch up? (3)

27 It’s different in Rotherhithe (5)

28 They’re eaten up in the stratosphere (5)

30 In a narrow way, it applies to bowling (5)

32 It gives vacationists pleasure around Pinner (4)

33 A two-way growth of ‘beard’ (3)