Crossword Puzzle

Across

4 A pretty one always involves difficulty (6)

7 It should not be blamed for failing to produce eggs (8)

8 A lot of water for one woman (6)

10 It may be aloft with respect to the fish (5)

13 One up the ladder, maybe (4)

14 Discover one letter in another (4)

15 Row or rank (4)

16 Wimbledon coterie ? (3)

17 Cripple mother first (4)

19 Image of a star ? (4)

21 Describes many novel characters (9)

23 Hardly a violent stroke (4)

24 A beastly lino maker (4)

26 He may go to the road (3)

27 Russian river (4)

29 Cut up the meat? (4)

32 Where all the fun is legitimate? (4)

33 Take by force (5)

34 What happens in the end (6)

35 Quotations from the Dental Gazette? (8)

36 Star pictures? (6)

Down

1 Eat and make fun (5)

2 Carry on playing in the London area ? (5)

3 A painful sort of hook (4)

4 The kind of glass used for food? (5)

5 A fellow with cheek? (4)

6 More than one name for a boy? (6)

9 It gives good wool (6)

11 Mouthpiece! (3)

12 You can't deny that it's time

for Tim to get up (5)

13 Like Tweedledum and Tweedledee (7)

15 Little bird (3)

16 A single note (3)

18 Descriptive of the real thing (6)

20 Of the sugar plum fairy perhaps (5)

21 Sounds like wood but it's soft (3)

22 It's well produced, one might say (3)

23 The very whitest plates, maybe (6)

25 A Dickensian name? (3)

28 Tries to rearrange the ceremonies (5)

30 The difficulty of being a master of suspense? (5)

31 Please deduct pounds for the pudding (5)

32 You may buy it only to burn it (4)

33 The type to give heart to a consortium? (4)

Solution on Page 50