CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 They’re licked and eaten (5) 8 Machine used for work in the Mediterranean (5) 10 Wrongly rinse in something sticky (5)

11 Blend number 1009 (3) 12 As eaten with some tinned potatoes? (5)

13 He has a job taking care (7) 15 It’s noticeably tall we are, in height (5)

18 Source of a bit of a scare on the road? (3)

19 The bullfighter rushed right to the ring! (6) 21 Continue making comedies (5,2)

22 I get to the fore, nominally (4)

23 In fact, decided to dispense with detectives (4) 24 Broadcast jazzy singing half the winter (7)

26 Badly stored in a country area (6)

29 An atom in motion (3) 31 A tracking aid (5)

32 Took undue interest but posed no problem (7) 34 As things are, a mere existence (5)

35 Possibly not a weight? (3) 36 Showing envy out of inexperience? (5)

37 It’s not great at the shallow end (5)

38 A person not getting on, one gathers? (5)

DOWN

1 She won out as a mother (5) 2 A sort of wave of support (7)

4 In the army, you learn (4) 5 A little matter for the professional heavyweight (6) 6 His wife gives him an article (5)

7 A better judge? (5) 9 On course, apt to be in a hole (3)

12 See the misguided rector as right! (7)

14 Jack may be low in cigarettes (3)

16 River mistaken for a sewer? (5)

17 Anchorages shown on ordinary maps (5) 19 Sounding one’s horn somewhere near Streatham (7) 20 Learns the fishy bits about a trading centre (5) 21 Capital rhyme for a tyro (5) 23 Meant to dote madly on little Dennis (7)

24 Calm directions to a Frenchman (6)

25 A sound figure but excessively so! (3)

27 Some composer’s opus for a long time (5)

28 New robes, not gaudy (5) 30 The part involving decimalisation (5)

32 Price cut? (4)

33 Music with “go” (3)