CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Poor maid’s share gets high regard (10)

6 Foolish Sid put out (6) 11 Sweet wobbly food, Benjamin consumed one (5,4)

12 Said seaweed in mountain is a fern (7)

13 One Parisian officer found it strange in Scotland (4) 14 Quash foe, been bothering monarch (5,2,5)

16 Fed up (9)

18 Change made by Greek character going to gallery (6)

20 Work that might be dangerous for trapeze artist? (5)

21 Drink put on ice inside (5) 23 Surpass at garden party (5) 25 Bag holds everything in the rain (6) 28 Degrading of continental with explanation (9) 30 Coming from Geneva, car tax was lavish expenditure (12)

32 Typists’ game (4)

34 Rather big hit smashed rig inside (7)

35 Aim high but go too far? (9) 36 I name grand levy first that is onerous (6)

37 I will be having a certain disposition that’s churlish (3-7)

DOWN

1 Stopping in court for a while

(10)

2 Is this where butter is

made? (4,5)

3 Heard brook in North Wales

resort (4)

4 Butcher at random with extraterrestrial had catapult (9)

5 Wildcat from Oz? (5) 7 Intermediate passage left going round island (12)

8 It spoke about being the most confined (7)

9 This surgeon should know his drill (6)

10 Jack on weaving machine out in the garden perhaps (6)

15 Still in production (12) 17 Eight, say, had a meal (5) 19 Became a clot? (10) 22 Confess what one should do in Bath (4,5)

24 Standard raised across the Channel? (9)

26 An hour in charge of deadly disease (7)

27 Poorly attempt remains within (6)

29 Not one to laze around? (6) 31 Not a tax-free island! (5) 33 Attention-seeker in Bishop’s Stortford (4)