CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Good claret’s ruined in freezer (4,7)

6 View station after six (5)

9 One complaining coming from Rome, an eccentric (6) 10 Buried leotard, it’s in shreds (4,2,4)

11 Ideal thing but Tom would not wear them in bed! (4,7) 15 Greek story? (5)

19 Plate put back for dog perhaps (6)

20 Dull luck alters surprisingly (10)

21 Item pluckily removed (7) 22 Tour and get the French vote having three components (7) 25 Species of yarrow on tweezers removed (10) 26 United Nations gentle help that is outstanding (6) 27 Mention whistler about to return (5)

30 What hairdresser did was decided in advance (3,3,5) 34 Flask that loses heat initially, temperature regulator (10) 35 Shoemaker by being elitist (6) 36 Ten in place of nothing in transistor at base (5)

37 Weary end, say, possibly, but actually it’s a timely start (3,5,3)

DOWN

1 Universal pointless strip (5) 2 Smallest number taking 28 down way (5)

3 Very much inclined to be pricey (5)

4 Sappers apt to be dependable (8)

5 Man heard to take steps for advice (8)

6 Lady bowed? (5)

7 Scented fish (5)

8 A detective accepting last letter from old Mexican (5)

12 A canny one reproduced chagrin (9)

13 Note house on British river tempted woman (9) 14 More chicken (8)

16 Sheet of questions used in

laboratory? (4,5)

17 Realities upset ancient

Hebrew (9)

18 Many-sided but with no

sides? (3-5)

23 Fried food not right for

woman who flirts (8)

24 Being furtive, they last out (8) 27 Going up and down, this blade

is going round (5)

28 Magnetic grassland? (5) 29 Concerning Michael’s said

recording (5)

31 Benefactor from Huntingdon,

oriental (5)

32 Where garden flowers sleep?

(2,3)

33 In a matter-of-fact way extremely lazy, no rain had fallen first (5)