CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Becoming angry in a natural environment (7,4)

10 Lower crossing-place in city (6)

11 Drama washed-up here (74)

12 Python shuffled round island (6)

13 How in France a hill might appear to broadcaster? (11) 14 Greek character taking time to include mark (6)

15 Vessel in annexe becalmed (5)

17 Music maker, loud music maker (5)

20 Easy to digest and easy to carry (5)

22 Venice whaler said to come into land (9)

23 Palm from South America that’s very musical (5) 25 Speak very quietly inside it’s full of energy (5) 28 Provide oriental with jibe (5) 30 It’s plain a French dart was

thrown about (6)

32 Being guarded there should not be any danger of cutting one’s face with it (6,5)

33 Coy about a horse covered

in rough hair (6)

34 Group with common interest, say, from independent country (6,5) 35 Record half of it with ecstasy

and say it out loud (6) 36 Legal unit of linear

measure? (7,4)

DOWN

2 Animal with crumpled horn I caught rose awkwardly

(10)

3 High town in

Buckinghamshire (7)

4 Must not contract (6)

5 Cry about donkey during

drinking bout (7)

6 Neil’s rugby formation (4-3) 7 Argue former claim (11) 8 Bird with giant fruit (8) 9 Military officer’s bird (8) 16 Being polite corrects citizen’s personal freedom (5,6)

17 Fishy part is the end (5) 18 Undo a Parisian with energy (5)

19 Each quarter light (5)

21 Level line army left (10) 23 Designer with lines produced with great skill (8) 24 Steps taken by some Americans in honour of a star (3,5)

26 First male worker is stubbornly resolute (7) 27 Suggest I’d crept round (7) 29 Over half quantity with hesitation is smallest quantity! (7)

31 Young bird’s ring can be heard (6)