Crossword puzzle

Across

1 A chancy associate of pitch (4)

4 Vexes (6)

8 A soft order to a dog? (3)

10 I take a diminu tive relative to be a goddess (4)

13 Hold back the remainder first (8)

14 Name for a chap in the furniture line? (7)

15 Source of entertainment that varies in make (6)

17 Colleagues who urge each other to toil? (9)

21 He finishes off Charles (3)

22 Just the place for a summit conference (3)

23 A word between railways stations, perhaps (3)

26 Undertakes to study treatises? (9)

27 Reversible grass (6)

28 In favour with the people (7)

32 Inspect without actually looking at? (4, 4)

34 The facility with which certain letters are pronounced? (4)

35 It looks healthy for Nat, maybe (3)

36 They need to be rounded up (6)

37 Her cattle? Not entirely (4)

DOWN

1 More than one entertainer (4)

2 Bob and little Christopher give us an act (4)

3 She provides an officer for the artillery (4)

5 Low language (6)

6 A visitor may come to it (3)

7 Bob and Al have only one shoe (6)

9 Members of some nation, presumably (3)

11 It's sat upon (5)

12 Those darned things? (5)

15 Retained (4)

16 The rich take him in (4)

18 You'll find those at the back in it (4)

19 A boy referring to a bomb? (4)

20 Weight of a large cask, we hear (3)

23 Put a price on (5)

24 An educational book (5)

25 Those little bits of laundry (6)

26 Partly a tin cover (6)

28 It has an easy life (3)

29 Port where nothing's organised? (4)

30 Not a good meal, maybe (4)

31 Learn by what you see? (4)

33 A singular means of propulsion (3)