Cross Words for Wendy

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Across
  1. 2. What does The Watergate Scandal, Olivia Coleman and a Rubiks Cube have in common? (8-7-4)
  2. 3. In other words, he dictates, locates, delivers, then turns the lights out and glues ‘em all together! (4,2,3,5)
  3. 7. Guess who? Not Shaw, not Bruce or that princess from Shrek? It must be a goddaughter (5)
  4. 9. Looks like medicine, made from a cactus and a good middle name (7-4)
  5. 11. ‘The One Where She Turned 52 With People She Liked’ (7)
  6. 12. Emmy? Grammy? …? Tony? No, the third one is always the best! (5)
  7. 15. Scotch or an initial (7)
  8. 16. A favourite mix of passionfruit, vodka and shot or prosecco (8-7)
  9. 22. 1 cuboid weighs 2.8 kilos so what would you call 1016 kilos of them? (7)
  10. 24. I heard All the old paintings on the tombs, They do the sand dance, Don't you know? Could encourage a foreign gait (4-4-2-8)
  11. 28. Homer’s Iliad would have turned out quite differently had it featured [insert middle name] of Sittingbourne (5)
  12. 29. Henry VIII dubbed it the ‘Garden of England’ (4)
  13. 30. Don’t worry, her friend won’t pinch your Pepsi but she might… (6)
  14. 33. A first time buyers paradise, surrounded by water which only adds to the value (9)
  15. 34. Either way you look at it, she sounds like she’s good with a Spanner (6)
  16. 36. Initially, this old timer’s team endlessly needs help at matches - her optimism tragically still produces unimpressive results (9-7)
  17. 37. I may have misheard but this crime fighting duo are a bit past it, one has a ‘bad knee’ and the other is ‘lazy’ (6,3,5)
Down
  1. 1. Happy Birthday Roger Federer! (6-6)
  2. 4. Practical, durable and fashionable to boot (3-7)
  3. 5. She told you to Catch the 4.50 from Paddington to meet your Nemesis in a Crooked House (6-8)
  4. 6. She always round Our House in Baggy Trousers! It Must be Love or it’s utter… (7)
  5. 8. If the fourth letter is D, sounds like the fifth letter…(4)
  6. 10. At first, skipper greeted them, then booked them! It’s their job! (8)
  7. 13. If you found D funny you’ll laugh out loud with the next letter! (5)
  8. 14. It’s fair to say Henry VIII wasn’t referring to this town but he did like the cherries (13)
  9. 17. “Pick Me Up! She’s so sweet” and they did (but in Italian) (4)
  10. 18. Three brothers-in-law with outlaw names, two would be sneaky, don’t mess with the third! (3)
  11. 19. Vidal? Siegfried? Sorry, I misheard you, couldn’t hear you over the orchestra (7)
  12. 20. Bridal showers and a short lunatic president, it’s enough to make any recruit pass-out (6)
  13. 21. One cannot estimate this borough’s value… (10)
  14. 23. In short, Just Because ma’am had no need for a Romeo didn’t mean she didn’t want applause (6-5)
  15. 25. Home to the Mortimores and English Rugby (10)
  16. 26. Keep an ear out for her friend she’s all the way at the back behind row Y (5)
  17. 27. What you do to houses on Halloween or John Prescott but not a beautiful red brick university (5)
  18. 31. Lords and Ladies providing Sorcery for Equal Rites written by a genius taken too soon by the Reaper Man (5-9)
  19. 32. An alarming moustachioed highly sprung wizard or a gentle, adorable pet. Both are friends of Florence (7)
  20. 35. A Director shouts it to start a scene but they lost an eye. A play must start with it but they lost a knee…where have they gone? (5)