WEEKEND CROSSWORD

Across

1 Cheerfully reckless, being contented

after rebuke (9)

9 Some skimp airing leading to

damage (6)

10 Excuses worker, that’s nice (8)

11 Took notice of the man with

Edmund and Edwin (6)

12 Tempt French nobleman to enter

bishop’s domain (6)

14 Coalmine once contained gas (4)

15 Carpenter’s means of transport? (5) 16 Newsgroups utilise tennis fixture

(6)

18 Heavenly body turning women on

(3,4)

21 Animal that is more colourful going

round the Orient (3,4)

24 Principal safety cover (6)

26 Patient attendant (5)

30 Scare away from branch before it

finished (4)

31 Note my alternative word origin (6) 32 With word of amusement I let out it

was rock salt (6)

33 Not having been accepted, it went

down (8)

34 Alan and Frederick or another man (6)

35 Said to be correct entrance used to

create new plants (9)

Down

2 Lulu cut short went first having

become calm (6)

3 Be a nuisance at end of drama (4,2)

4 Laze about in car club producing

bloomer (6)

5, 11 and 23 Tidy up at home to make sure one’s affairs are under control (3,4,5,2,5)

6 Australian looks at city in France (6) 7 Musical steps to ‘Water Music’? (3-5) 8 Hunting wrongly portrayed (9)

11 See5

13 Many a man or lady (4)

17, 20 and 29 While emotionally aroused during current race (2,3,4,2,3,6)

19 Undomesticated animals’

uncivilised existence (8)

20 See 17

22 Gathering this when it has not been

used over a period of time (4)

23 See 5

25 Cockney man encounters on the way up respect (6)

27 Military policeman cut down whilst arresting District Commissioner (6)

28 Looking at lousy hygiene, it’s not

hard (6)

29 See 17