Across
- 4. Turn air blue endlessly, resulting in sending-off (6)
- 5. Oasis embraced by chav endearingly (5)
- 6. Falls once more receding with rain reduced by half (7)
- 8. Occupy in monastic style? (7)
- 12. Tires and emission systems (8)
- 15. Hired as a professional accountant? (9)
- 16. He will shortly ring — to say this? (5)
- 19. What had P Rubens at his disposal? (12)
- 22. Last out of newspapers is Times (7)
- 24. Man maybe using lipsalve regularly (4)
- 26. Returned to show off clothes (4)
- 27. Her date goes and gets grounded (7)
- 33. Active moves covering right and left upright (8)
- 34. I held out for foreign capital (5)
- 35. Copper is at home and wife’s finishing cooking (7)
- 36. One following singular speaker (7)
- 37. Go in kitchen — take out pan (3)
- 39. Crack setter often leaves vague enigmas initially (5)
Down
- 1. Doctor perhaps ignoring one pressure or another — he’ll work his way to the top (6)
- 2. Yellow head of cage bird (6)
- 3. Hold spellbound during tenth rally (7)
- 7. Marksmen executed infantry (7)
- 9. Side with running mate (4)
- 10. A civil rector sadly becoming too judgmental (12)
- 11. Side’s superiority (4)
- 13. Victims of loose links (10)
- 14. Cuts perhaps may get us down (6)
- 17. Prison record from the East covering start of action (4)
- 18. Do better than expected initially, finding something to wear (4)
- 20. Closet is turned out for date in June, perhaps (8)
- 21. Polite man’s not a silly fool (9)
- 23. Suffering mainly attached to confined military headquarters (8)
- 24. Stalemate that is restricting politician, behind (7)
- 25. Attractive person that’s accepted by the pupil (6)
- 28. Foreign article admitting fabrication (5)
- 29. The principle of men being banned from apartment block (5)
- 30. Animal stand (4)
- 31. Great number killed (4)
- 32. Newspaperman to put in dire reworking (6)
- 38. Thinner veil revealing cheek (5)