CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Bird found tinge burned out (4,7)

6 Helping hand? Possibly or possibly not (3-2)

9 Brave circle of American lawyers (6)

10 Enlace almost all wire netting differently (10) 11 Takes another device for applying paint first and puts it on one’s foot (6,5)

15 As white as a piece of paper (5)

19 Stopped wearing corsets (6) 20 Rearrange exotic orangeries (10)

21 Wrongful act of receiver (7) 22 Flirt be upsetting Hazel (7) 25 Preacher has journey on a railway (10)

26 Attempt to include lady on the radio (6)

27 The continental busybody had an inclination (5)

30 At which one is in a state of quarrelsome disagreement with turtles (11)

34 Beautiful Italian woman has poisonous plant (10) 35 Capital duo having fit (6) 36 An area of North Sea covered in water! (5) 37 Scraps starting price with finishes (4,3,4)

DOWN

1 Jockey’s spin drier (5) 2 Recruit occasionally seen before short turn (5)

3 In this some are imbibing excessively (5)

4 Stratagem that requires care because it is awkward to include hesitantly (8) 5 Not into a rambling system of symbols (8)

6 Lily louts upset (5)

7 Guy will shortly, we hear, produce some treachery (5) 8 Some supple Athenian to get creased (5) 12 Being without a particular

stock is not in order (3,2,4) 13 Pays loner off, one is not an

expert (9)

14 Editor, colourful player (8) 16 Worker to slow down using

this in car (9)

17 Dinner she cooked and held

sacred! (9)

18 Silver on top of rubbish

glistening (8)

23 And Romeo could have been

left in a lonely place (8) 24 See good girl in monocle (8) 27 Left one near a country in

Africa (6)

28 Some wholemeal loaf from

town in Scotland (5)

29 Act as a paid informer (5) 31 Another odd-looking part

for old king (5)

32 Gas coming from new boat

first (5)

33 Detailed working

description for glasses (5)