Cryptic crossword

Across

3 Game that needs

checking (5)

8 Horrify a very soft little

chap (5)

10 Giant canned potato

centre (5)

11 Dash for the ladder (3) 12 Do you see a lot of

paper this colour? (5) 13 Pilot not worried about an untried component (7) 15 Carried a kiddie at

some speed (5) 18 Mean not to miss (3) 19 Are such citizens still suitable for service at sea? (6)

21 Being possibly doped,

the cats did wrong (7) 22 The hills to the right,

at Spithead (4)

23 Roll up (4)

24 An important, elevated position aboard ship (7)

26 A golf lover possibly

will show humility (6) 29 There's nothing in

returning a kiss (3) 31 Old Nick, starting to

make a stand (5) 32 Attacked and destroyed the new fort (4,3)

34 It's vital to be a

survivor (5)

35 An intoxicating bit of

crumpet (3)

36 Historic chief, nothing

if not wildly rash (5) 37 It's a sort of comb,

darling (5)

38 Animal in an Eastern

country (5)

Down

1 Protection with strings

attached (5)

2 They make no secret of

people's desires (4,3) 4 Fling some chumps

right and left! (4)

5 Puts the last of the lot

in the wrong seats (6) 6 Pure, perhaps, if not

simple (5)

7 A worn stone? (5) 9 Amusingly, it sounds like something else! (3) 12 That's funny, one finds many, I see, in coal! (7)

14 It's free when you get

it out of the fridge (3) 16 What a seat may do when there's no bottom to it (3,2) 17 The usual procedure

can be boring (5) 19 She's a knockout! (7) 20 At a party, they're so

masculine! (5)

21 Talk of having change

for a groat (5)

23 In official communications, the 'F' word (7)

24 Servant turning in

during a meal (6)

25 A tiny can? (3)

27 The light ahead is

man-made (5) 28 Slave to music,

possibly (5)

30 He can always give

more love (5)

32 Get on to a new

system of diet (4) 33 Fair game? (3)