SUPER CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Give the shed a search that’s been asked for (2,7)

8 Stuff, tie up and put back (7)

9 Stay when the priest goes off east (7)

10 As president, agrees it’s silly to forecast (7) 13 Not wrong about these being filmed (2,3,3)

14 He can “10,” he understands (4)

16 Give a character reading and pull no punches (5,2,3) 20 Already having a day out, it’s true (4) 22 Unhappy about one returning to the platform (4)

24 The brats, badly behaved, were removed quietly (10)

28 The potential killers retreat from the animal (4)

29 So is struggling to break back, concealing strong emotions (8) 31 Have the lawmen’s helpers captured a second? (7)

34 Set off with a horse (7) 35 Break or make the star (7)

36 In the morning, going round the home in all seriousness (9)

DOWN

1 A car goes into the front, with other vehicles (7)

2 See and trot off with the ribbon (7)

3 Leave the quarter completely (5)

4 Fire, perhaps, or what an electric one needs (7) 5 Catch up a bit (4)

6 Not a lad, you say, sadly (4)

7 A wicked plot, at first, to torment one (7)

11 A list it’s right to set store by (6)

12 Are caught entering the land (4)

15 He goes ice-skating all round the river (4)

17 A letter, you say, for the gardener (3) 18 Concluding it’s a mould of some sort (4) 19 Pictures one playing games (6)

21 From “12,” deleting the right one (3) 22 Arrange for the man to go back and ask questions (7)

23 After one second, repeated the name of the river (4)

25 Nonsense! I will take the man back. He’s a quisling (7)

26 Imagined to be a mere suspicion (7) 27 Name the city to demolish (7)

30 Turn the key: it’s thin and pointed (5) 32 Position the thing with the points on the outside (4)

33 Irritated, therefore, by the note (4)