CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Adjourn when scores are level (3,5)

5 What to do to quadruple one’s efforts (8)

10 Coming on dramatically (8) 12 Calmly submissive having given up the job (8)

13 Good in line to find the beast (5) 14 Standard rubbish from bird (6) 15 Amateur officer to display star (6)

16 Turn your head being frightened (5)

17 Undiluted bull (4)

21 Frenchman in short trousers (4) 22 Cough sweet looks like a diamond (7-6)

24 Has it been tanned yellow? (6,7) 27 Most important-sounding wharf (4)

28 Large area of water coming from leak (4)

30 Coy about advertisement that’s sinister (5) 32 A second thoroughfare in foreign parts (6)

33 £1-05 in an African country (6) 34 Jones announcing his entrance (5)

36 One on board with two sets of cards (8)

37 Indeed so terribly biased (3-5) 38 Revolutionary way of growing crops? (8)

39 Saw cat first being keen-sighted (4-4)

DOWN

1 Far reaching sort of statement made by cleaner? (8) 2 Alternative to ritual conference (8)

3 Address adviser monsignor included (6)

4 Study time causes depression (4) 6 Continually in reverse (4)

7 Bird, gold one the Spanish cry (6) 8 Dressed elderly group first (8) 9 Putting up with belligerent diner with cocked gun (8)

11 How dealer is assisting first person when I am playing cards (6,2,1,4)

12 Start with these three words

(5,6,2)

18 Shorty not right arranging to be

trashy (5)

19 Obscure expeditionary force

leaders in unstable ground (5) 20 Unwanted material from middle

of the body, so it is said (5)

21 First person in Paris well short of

gem (5)

23 Blue is smoother without

question (8)

24 Transportable bed? (8)

25 24 hours of wet weather at time

of financial need (5,3)

26 Saw it had been protected again,

it might be said (8)

29 In court a revolutionary official

mark (6)

31 From Tarsus, sexagenarian went

to coastal area (6)

34 Bisect, say, to within (4)

35 Just one (4)