CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Art complex not completely employed originally in a daze (6) 5 Heavenly food from 1 (6) 9 Article on activities for gym monkey (3) 11 Has the ability to be grim and show honesty (7) 12 Could be roulette in a USSR organisation? (7) 13 Told porkies in song (4) 14 Against language in poetry (5) 15 Relinquish top player, we’re told (4) 18 Far from first among pointless linesman (7) 20 Leave a group playing (7) 22 Bash out three points - one is past it! (3-4) 25 Magic sticks hold the Queen in what stray does (7) 28 Flower girl (4) 29 Concur with a cry in Scotland - when it’s unfinished (5) 30 Love writer to be frank (4) 33 Record company price for Middle Eastern country (7) 34 Barker might go wrong in row (7) 35 Pass left after the business (3) 36 Pressing old city fellow (6) 37 Go past the Spanish before shelling peas (6)
DOWN
2 Club for aliens off the street? (7) 3 Time of day, either way (4) 4 Listener’s home for fliers is sincere (7) 5 Shakespearean character found when warning device retreats (7) 6 Container sought by 22 (4) 7 One needs a change of flavour (7) 8 Reached the top - like many swimmers? (6) 10 Bury the new trainee (6) 16 Where to find cheap drink on board? (5) 17 Threads of stories (5) 19 Gershwin’s link to Republicans (3) 21 Time to lose first holiday belongs to us (3) 22 Pads on the phone for sleuth (6) 23 Rise abruptly around ancient fighter (7) 24 Fail to care for data recall at the French court (7) 25 Grapple with the others at sign of love’s absence (7) 26 Headless office worker draws and drains (7) 27 Despatched the railway guard (6) 31 Eerie-sounding old actress (4) 32 She’s hiding in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (4)
ACROSS
8 ___ up, confessed (5) 9 Portable computers (7) 10 Balances precariously (7) 11 Coating (5) 12 Envelope's frank (4,5) 14 Claire ___, ‘Wolf Hall’ actress (3) 15 Dishonourable fellow (3) 16 Act up (9) 19 ___ beater, car worker (5) 21 Criss-cross pattern (7) 23 Mechanical (7) 24 Stares at lecherously (5)
DOWN
1 Dispatched in the mail (6) 2 Overrun (8) 3 Slothful (4) 4 Watery component of blood (6) 5 Fruit and pastry dish (5,3) 6 US theatre award (4) 7 Fish hawk (6) 13 Reproduce the conditions of (8) 14 Practicable (8) 15 Antics (6) 17 Comfort (6) 18 All the same (4,2) 20 Parts of pens (4) 22 Carried off (4)