Cryptic crossword

Across

3 A covering letter to

GBS (5)

8 Hut serving as taxi

garage? (5)

10 Global change of

heart (5)

11 We accepted this rubbish as what the author did (3)

12 Where a team has a point to gain somehow (5)

13 A jolly good banger (7) 15 A trophy from the

head (5)

18 Property of Whistler's

father? (3)

19 More anxious to take

a cut? (6)

21 Like a nervous system,

as of the heart (7) 22 Did archery give him a

sore back? (4)

23 'Fuss', as a verb (2-2) 24 City poster vandalised

for a bit of fun (7) 26 Many a cooker is

split (6)

29 Like a hole in the

head? (3)

31 A number advanced,

going into a joint (5) 32 What's hard to understand about crosswords (7) 34 Possibly sent round

the bend by music! (5) 35 The age of grand

opera (3)

36 To be a commander is

an honour (5)

37 Poetic piece of perfidy by a couple of students (5)

38 A pronouncedly

equestrian cup (5)

Down

1 Unite for some basic

education in May (5) 2 Charmers with pointed

desires (7)

4 To Damocles, it didn't

seem much support (4) 5 Start work on a stand

with four legs (6) 6 Were such corporals in

the cavalry? (5)

7 The panache of a

trusty leader (5)

9 Does it live on pressed

meat? (3) 12 We get back to the

front, maybe (7) 14 Endlessly kind

people? (3) 16 Forename of one

heavyweight (5) 17 Does being earlier make him superior? (5)

19 Old rulers (7)

20 A subtle trace can

show a response (5) 21 Mark at two

points? (5)

23 Fishy weapon of

war? (7)

24 Poverty of a writer at the close of the century (6)

25 Scottish cross-country

runner (3)

27 Discover the money

you get paid (5)

28 One who may figure to return with hesitation to the polls? (5)

30 Faces Diana, Al and

the head of state (5) 32 Yield in unprecedented

fashion (4)

33 Poetry lacking a writer;

or, an essay (3)