cryptic the fifthtic
Across
- 6. Masc deed goes misunderstood, leaving a cipher (5,7)
- 8. Reverse into car check to meet a man (3)
- 9. Depression in olden times (4)
- 10. Kitchen's blender coagulates (8)
- 14. A party leader concealed pest (5)
- 15. Nice raft I broke for a trick (8)
- 16. Clan at first contributes to wise woman making a little boat (7)
- 18. Rodents in bedroom and freezer (7)
- 22. Stomp boots to get a raise (5)
- 25. Find a funeral mound in copyreaders (4)
- 26. River of mob - and the odds of east (6)
- 27. Lists of errors found in blander ratatouille (6)
- 29. Songbird sounds like looting! (5)
- 32. Hunting expedition, far as I can make out (6)
- 34. Sound of a sigh repeats itself to make storms (8)
- 35. A tin ram makes a monkey (7)
- 36. Include real arrangements of work by Debussy (5,2,4)
Down
- 1. Friends initially, approximately, shortened others - in truth! (8)
- 2. Pitiful epic that failed (8)
- 3. Body of water is questioning, we hear (3)
- 4. Vertices per lifts depends - they're needed for the edges (10,6)
- 5. The writer's final is second to last (11)
- 7. Help found in miso soup (3)
- 11. Artificial fibre that won't last long (5)
- 12. A ram? No! A rodent (4)
- 13. Letting incompetents make eggs initially tastes sour (4)
- 17. No harp playing for lonely child (6)
- 19. Nutty biscuits? (8)
- 20. Headless phantom for party thrower (4)
- 21. He paints messily for an actor (8)
- 23. Exalted dynamite contains comfort (5)
- 24. Hate German exam (6)
- 28. Song of the proletariat (4)
- 30. Harsh sound made by ruler of some Scots (8)
- 31. Departing, I must leave to find instrument (4)
- 33. Virginia's first passageway to the gorge (6)