DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS

3 Bread maker (5)

8 Army chaplain (5)

10 Horizontal (5)

11 Flatfish (3)

12 Deep circular dish (5)

13 Alike (7)

15 Desert animal (5)

18 Scottish river (3)

19 Expand (6)

21 Down payment (7)

22 Prophet (4)

23 Strikes (4)

24 Seemly behaviour (7)

26 Shore bird (6)

29 Prohibit (3)

31 Afterwards (5)

32 Middle (7)

34 Journal (5)

35 Animal’s coat (3)

36 Healed (5)

37 Sucrose (5)

38 Oozes (5)

DOWN

1 Wireless (5)

2 Referee (7)

4 Slightly open (4)

5 Evoke (6)

6 Of the kidneys (5)

7 Brimless cap (5)

9 Weir (3)

12 Rifle attachment (7)

14 Circuit (3)

16 Axiom (5)

17 Rental contract (5)

19 Defy (7)

20 Customary (5)

21 Warehouse (5)

23 Causing distress (7)

24 Ridicule (6)

25 Managed (3)

27 Indistinct (5)

28 Yields (5)

30 Unit of gold purity (5)

32 Harvest (4)

33 Mat (3)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

3 All round, it’s of geographical

interest (5)

8 Fresh cod, to me, tastes like wine! (5)

10 Give one’s address (5)

11 As a professional, in short, achieve

a century (3)

12 Lord – there’s a duck in the barn! (5)

13 Debt-collector at church in France (7)

15 Japanese bamboo fencing (5)

18 The States have the key to

employment (3)

19 Oppose one’s misguided sister (6)

21 Tool usable on a box (7)

22 Pals in high places (4)

23 Kenneth had something extra (4)

24 Had he a square garden? (7)

26 Once hooked, might be in a hole (6)

29 Too much noise in the reading room (3)

31 Realms in which there’s a reason not to

get ahead (5)

32 The kick one can get out of a trip (7)

34 Zealous in heartening bombardiers,

possibly (5)

35 Something fishy in the

processing of ore (3)

36 In the Caribbean, it couldn’t possibly be

the capital of Tahiti! (5)

37 Hit five boundaries (5)

38 Disdain to treat corns (5)

DOWN

1 Displeased when a G-man gets

promoted (3,2)

2 So pluck may be needed in

making jugs! (7)

4 Disclose information so as to get out

of a hole? (4)

5 One who reserves a prize? (6)

6 Eagles may be seen around the air

terminal (5)

7 Multiplication stables! (5)

9 Assume he’s from London (3)

12 Irishman’s name for a gun? (7)

14 Is one acronym of account (3)

16 Lenin once admitted as silk fabric (5)

17 Small animal able to trot about a quarter

of a mile (5)

19 Lived with Sid Reed (7)

20 Uncle starts the ball with this dance (5)

21 Paste mixed with too much water (5)

23 Important person going ahead with a

walk-out (7)

24 A bitty picture? (6)

25 It’s bad, yes, for a man to be

motherless (3)

27 He’s on record as a Dickens character (5)

28 Those eaten up in strategic

manoeuvres? (5)

30 Strict regulation of rents (5)

32 Whereupon one can walk over water (4)

33 Look nothing but a game (3)