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)