The Channel Crossword

“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…” Set by Māyā (https://mayaofauckland.com/), each month for Channel. No. 80

Across

1 Moderately devious about where one might search when not high, according to the 24 (6) 4 Prisoners found with 30, according to the 24 (4) 7 Courier company experienced with the other types of clues, according to the 24 (3) 10 Street housing small accompaniment to 13, according to the 24 (5) 11 Painting a venerable teacher... (3,6) 12 ..she's good in real life, sources indicate (4) 13 Serving of coffee about right with the long of something, according to the 24 (5) 14 Hole may accompany 12 down, according to the 24 (4) 17 Talk of spit, expect leaves (5) 18 Eating type of bean, mostly, with Chinese follower of I (8) 22 Saw game fanatic put 12 down sort in place of steamship (8) 23 Elgar's variation may follow by and according to the 24 (5) 25 Cover none of outdoor pool (4) 27 Heartless Star Trek character takes me to be what goes with 6, according to the 24 (5) 29 Note - organ should be felt to accomplish things, according to the 24 (4) 32 Corresponding sting made us get larger, say (9) 33 Cry of pleasure left spinner (5) 35 Live over by boy going with the flow, according to the 24 (3) 36 Regressive as iron going with sound, according to the 24 (4) 37 At home, with predator over entrance (6)

Down

1 Somalia's equivalent of May Day, say (3) 2 Translation of Horace, admits rising clergyman, may aim too high? (9) 3 Dead beats never, according to the 24 (4) 5 Sort found with 34, according to the 24 (5) 6 Extent of fuzzy surfaces raised (4) 7 Release unoriginal kinswoman (5) 8 Ugly houses Earl put with 1 across according to the 24 (6) 9 No, grandma holding a drone is not one of us (8) 12 Ducks in Grenada may come before proper, according to the 24 (4) 15 100 slide to a stop? (5) 16 Cheesy antonym, according to the 24 (5) 19 Seance to establish correct composition of pocketbook (8) 20 Never upset pen that sends vital information to

Head? (5,4) 21 Accompaniment to tear (according to the 24) found in low Earth orbit (4) 24 Corpse in church may be an old 22 (6) 26 Bend over backwards when around Eastern Star (5) 28 Academic holds love to be a trial (5) 30 Sound like writing experts? (4) 31 Bird's pale (4) 34 Footrot got up for the pigs (3)

Solution to last month's crossword

This month's crossword will also be uploaded to the creator’s blog at: channelcrossword.wordpress.com There, Mãyã will kindly attempt to answer any questions or comments that may arise from the crosswords each month.