1 Ms Williams in orbit? (5)
6 Ease things for everybody some day (5)
9 Tiny Sal can be so good! (7)
10 A boost getting a member more elevated (3,2)
11 A hard-hearted line can be very wounding (5)
12 An extra bad way to go! (5)
13 Unwanted by the army, maybe (7)
15 Favourite bit of the Indian rope trick (3)
17 Ancient goddess who lives anew (4)
18 A noteworthy instruction smoothly obeyed (6)
19 Not having been kept down, slip out of the way (5)
20 Agreement to try out a blend of tea(6)
22 A low place for the soldering, etc. (4)
24 The young are in her clutches (3)
25 What the coroner became? (7)
26 Where to show a bit of control on the golf course (5)
27 Not keen to be tied in a knot about money (5)
28 Station where Dorothy held the record (5)
29 Form of bolster usable in the kitchen (7)
30 A sphere which isn’t quite the real me (5)
31 As a rule, the council’s probably responsible for it (5)
2 Before catching the bus on the way to Hades (6)
3 Takes a position uppishly and unduly (6)
4 One foolishly going up a tree? (3)
5 “Breaks into pictures (5)
6 Fearful of Capone with a gun? (7)
7 Musical instrument in early records (4)
8 Possibly covet a bird (6)
12 Showing displeasure with a vehicle (5)
13 Such sense is merely fractional (5)
14 Go red, perhaps, in maturity? (5)
15 Paganini piece, far from religious (5)
16 Is impressively tall and evidently has “pull” (5)
18 Money to gain as a student? (5)
19 It’s achievable if you’re bright enough (7)
21 Venerate Paul as an American hero (6)
22 More verdant than the New York street (6)
23 It’s absurd to say she has no ears! (6)
25 Where to be stranded possibly in Ascot (5)
26 Maybe it has pounds and pounds(4)
28 Little girl going up to bed (3)
SOLUTIONS TO CROSSWORD 7738
CRYPTIC
EASY
ACROSS: 3, Frame 8, In law 10, Atlas 11, Den 12, Leigh (lee) 13, Jung-les 15, Negus 18, Log 19, Surrey 21, Returns 22, Apes 23, Peep 24, Ke-eps o-n 26, Tar-Di-s 29, Pen 31, S-USA-N 32, We-ather 34, I-d-i-ot 35, Oar 36, Shell 37, Hotel 38, Yeats (yeast)
ACROSS: 3, Chess 8, Mural 10, Atone 11, Nor 12, Brine 13, Enticed 15, Dents 18, Tom 19, Valise 21, Natural 22, Pool 23, Shut 24, Delight 26, Denied 29, Air 31, Evens 32, Ennoble 34, Giant 35, Ure 36, Actor 37, Adapt 38, Tease
