CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 & 10 How a dog mistakenly chasing a cat might have an incorrect idea (4,2,3,5,4) 11 Most irate having to enter jail

(4)

12 Declare it not right to have

this possession (5)

14 Charge one with hesitation providing radioactive isotope (6)

15 It goes from one side to the

other (7)

16 Do they start to wake people

up? (5-6)

18 Could make me a lord in the

peer’s domain (7)

20 Tense gone by cannot be

improved upon (4,7)

25 Harold Lee’s upset about midSeptember by one renting property (11)

29 Still one article on inactivity (7) 31 Those who have put their name to the document beneath new design (11) 33 Now Olga struggled to produce mistake on the field (3,4)

35 Astute ornamentation of

carved figure (6)

36 Carry round recipe for rich

cake (5)

38 Outdoor (4)

39 Wrong price to be answered

for in court? (8,6)

40 Dingy quarter of sand-hill (4) DOWN

2 Subsequent state unfortunately remains following eating (10)

3 Cur, say, with Sarah, going round a reception room at the spa (7)

4 Steer trapped a smaller

animal (5)

5 Deity made canal flow

upwards! (4)

6 Pass by Frenchman not in the

past tense (8)

7 Completely surround Ern and

Cecil floundering (8) 8 Temporarily dispense with the services of a rugby player (5-3) 9 Remove whitewash from French bed (6)

13 Head cleaner (7)

17 In position take a seat (3) 19 Peaceful river? (4)

21 Piece of turf so damp to start with (3)

22 Fairy on the point of getting gem (7)

23 Ready to drop off (4) 24 London almost gets into trouble with poll-tax (10) 25 Lady seen in a flourish (3)

26 It seemed miraculous during sowing season (8)

27 They aren’t now what they were (3-5)

28 It’s not for heavy drinkers presumably (5,3)

30 Piece of material we’d heard had been put on the plant (7) 32 Mother’s temperament? (6) 34 Strange having been incorrectly wired (5)

37 Rugby takes only short time in industrial Germany (4)