ACROSS 1 Unsprung vehicle carrying writer — best with no roof (10, hyphenated) 11 Weapons manufacturer in America, a Republican (also extremely vulgar) (7) 12 Precisely where restaurant should be to show class (5, two words) 14 Port wine comes from here, on a slope swathed in romance (8) 15 Strangely creepy, grim and bullying at heart (6) 16 Puff endlessly (4) 17 Capone’s girlfriend may have referred to him as this — obsessive and obstinate (4) 19 Spinning reality misleadingly? Not I! (6) 21 Young bird’s eggs located at first by dog (8) 24 Curve made by a throw and a hit back (8) 26 Valet brings in port (6) 27 School subject occupying pages for homework (4) 29 With English leading, restrain Ireland (4) 31 Cut me a bunch of flowers (6) 33 He comes from part of Plymouth if this cold-hearted (8) 34 Born top comic (5) 35 Suggested set in school (7) 36 Cup-shaped toy, a mega-rich source of fun when shaken (10) |
DOWN 2 Auctioneer put up contents (5) 3 Someone who takes in the arms or the adjudicators (8) 4 Complications returning, I assume (4) 5 Relate with developments in Irish town (6) 6 Playwright’s lost his power: snoop round place of book production (8) 7 Transcendental number, and one ten times as big (4) 8 Be an unlimited help, possibly? (6) 9 To do with stitching up a pattern in Latin America (7) 10 Old comedian’s fan magazine that is used for polishing? (10, hyphenated) 13 Cheap British meal — minced pudding (10, two words) 18 Time artist spent working in part of church (8) 20 A drier old lover? (8) 22 With continued success in gymnastics? (7, three words) 23 Muscular one’s wiry, or this possibly (6) 25 Retired tennis player is returning after a talk (6) 28 Arm, perhaps, cut off at the top (5) 30 Special manual missing page contains name for a bone (4) 32 Without fail, tinpot official shows off head-covering (4) |
To enter this competition, send your entry as an image or in list format, to ccpuzzles@talktalk.net before the 8th August 2015.The first correct entry drawn from the hat will receive a book from the Chambers range which has been donated by Chambers. Please note the new email address. |