Crosswords & puzzles

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

8 Successful man promises to pay (10)

9 Poison, sound the alarm (6) 11 Rather include playful c-cat, one that kills rodents (3-7) 13 Tray Val’s turned over hesitantly (6)

14 Bar overturned in party (5) 15 Poison beer measure first (8) 17 Bewilder with endless feat (4) 18 One taken in by graduate after main rebellion in the country (7)

20 Implement the scheme (6) 22 Claim everyone is on edge after daughter leaves (6) 23 Runner takes two females to the boat (5)

24 Tom will bite the mint-like plant (6)

26 Some of the conscripts writing (6)

28 Room length first used by old highwayman (7) 30 Staffordshire emblem (4) 31 It’s measured by barometers with urgency (8)

33 Set the tone and brought into harmony (5)

35 Touching proposal? (6)

36 It’s elementary according to Trudi, men talked sense inside (10)

37 Catch parent struggling (6) 38 Promotion team relegated – that’s topsy-turvy (6,4) DOWN

1 One expense that’s above us (8) 2 Superior like a Savile Row suit? (1,3,5,3,4)

3 Got car inside another vehicle! (2-4)

4 Room in which to thicken stew? (7)

5 Extremely good concoction Prue’s produced (5)

6 It is found in the sea, Atlantic or Aleutian (5)

Violate fashionable hairstyle (8) Rescue post to avoid disaster that’s imminent (4,3,9) 7 10 12 Outstanding geographical

plan (6-3)

13 Brown ape is in trouble (5) 16 Courtier who is extorting

money? (9)

19 Bill trapped the Parisian man (4) 21 Company provided closefitting cap (4)

24 Fear one unshod might have

(4,4)

25 Deciphering prose is a

problem (5)

27 Voicing three times as

much? (8)

29 Rudi, struggling in Richard’s endless embrace, is concerned with ancient Celts (7)

32 Joint holder (6)

33 Make baboon consume

some food (5)

34 Remove someone undesirable, young leader who is short and thick! (5)