CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 There are more of us in it (8) 5 How informer made a highpitched cry? (8)

10 Spoil one yellow bloomer (8) 12 Three-quarters of learned people having lines from books (8)

13 Brown protected Italian 18 down (5)

14 Butter angler put on stick (6) 15 Measure the Spanish shrub first (6)

16 Throttle found in older cars? (5)

17 Catch second horse (4)

21 Old money that can be returned just the same (4) 22 Tossing the caber, steps on the floor? (8,5)

24 Diction daren’t be changed when being brainwashed (13) 27 Indefinite number in shed pursue game (4)

28 What Lisa might do when at sea (4)

30 Basic forging equipment (5) 32 Sun-god’s spacecraft? (6) 33 A doctor with one in gazetteer back in Africa (6)

34 Water usually is readily available (2,3)

36 Persuading casual worker before sound of bell (8)

37 Be at this slack finale with nothing to do (5,3)

38 Mad having called during the action (8)

39 One who is unsuited to running (8)

DOWN

1 Remember note is about to be taken round (8)

2 Jeer disturbed him, a troubled prophet (8)

3 Reginald and I take on district (6)

4 Incline it up to the left (4)

6 One of five with ease, say, taken from being related to horses (4)

7 Tower, say, it’s something worth looking at (6)

8 Look at singular object with great disgust (8) 9 Dyer can travel round lake and remove dirt (3-5) 11 Removing the core, that is demoralising (13)

12 Apathetic want a platform, I state (13)

18 Goliath soldier ant (5)

19 Sound of many sheep producing bloomer (5) 20 Cheerless half of Dickens’ work (5)

21 Arabian Desert’s mountains? (5)

23 Drew that another way being frustrated (8)

24 Sneak in late (8)

25 Time of early enlightenment (8)

26 No dealer contrived to produce shrub (8)

29 Left you in France to bring up info about sticky substance (6) 31 Scottish girl had story about donkey (6)

34 A bit disconcerting a while ago (4)

35 Linesman’s favourite going round ring (4)