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Azed No. 1

 Azed 1 Plain

ACROSS
1 A start? This may give you a help (5)
*5 Debaucher (7)
11 Not quite enough fabric, duck, round the hamstring (9)
13 Donald’s end (3)
14 Cuban, seeking unbeliever will find one ___ (7)
16 Love, do yield as before - what happens next? (7)
17 Snake swallows its tail proceeds oozily (5)
18 Exchanged courtesies, as old women did? (6)
20 A pound in coin for a number of small changes on the side (4)
22 Average green’s uneven: we want to get even (8)
24 I graze on jungly slopes and gales buffet me (8)
26 Part of London strangely common formerly (4)
27 A leader of Turks, one to approach with petition? (6)
29 King certainly can’t fly (5)
33 He was still concerned with a tricky problem (7)
34 I’m to provide assistance with frothy stuff (7)
35 Character found in the poet Aeschylus (3)
36 At home in Greek island? Near to that, I was (9)
37 Reinstated little scamp, perhaps, having done wrong (7)
38 An end, is it? Sounds like it (5)
DOWN
1 One member of XV who’s very big, appropriately (7)
2 3 for grasshopper? No thanks (5)
3 2 for fish? Not I (5)
4 The wherewithal to produce fables? Aesop had it (10)
6 Abandon one’s belief for example in Descartes (6)
7 Scottish slipper coming up under one’s bone (5)
8 A mathematician does, and a qualified dentist (4)
9 Broadcasters, natives of Lebanon, we hear? (7)
10 Jock’s grassed, i.e. spread grass around a couple of leagues (5)
12 Most of leg rises after a little knock here, look (7)
15 Faring badly I’ll swallow betel - it’s fragrant (10)
19 Is tucking into mince pie; curved figures result (7)
21 ‘The two soaks’, an old portrait (7)
23 Sturgeon, though small, breaks trestle (7)
25 Frighten of old one at top of old staircase (6)
27 Top of road surface missing? Slow down, seeing it (5)
28 Punch blackleg’s head, boss (5)
30 Indian steel, 2 ounces, assorted (5)
31 Healthy-sounding trawler’s equipment (5)


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