Complete Clue List
Across
1. Skittish LIONS ACCOST smashers of idols (anag., 11)
7. "Stat!" (3)
8. Sleeping soundly (3)
9. Sounds of vowels need this form of indefinite article (2)
10. Short, deep valley or hollow (UK, var., 5)
15. Spend or use time: "I may ____ an hour" (2)
16. Speaker or writer and another person or other people (2)
17. Surpass, go beyond the limit (8)
19. Start (2)
20. Surprisingly, HE CANNOT be part of a field for small-minded scientists (anag., abbr., 8)
21. Syllable, final one in a word (abbr., 3)
23. Seventh of 24 (3)
24. Schedule contingency (4,4)
30. Switch position (2)
31. Skipper's opposite (8)
32. Slo-____ (replay type) (2)
33. So that (2)
34. Serving as, or forming the bottom level (5)
35. Singular third person pronoun (2)
36. Significant period (3)
38. State in China's Three Kingdoms (220-280 CE) (3)
39. Showing no signs of illness or disease (11)
Down
1. Starts (11)
2. Soothing, bringing solace (11)
3. Shout of pain (2)
4. Subsequently or soon afterwards: "And ____ to bed" (2)
5. Surgical removals of Fallopian tissues (11)
6. Strangely TIPS ONE'S HAT to shrub with fragrant white waxy flowers (anag., 11)
10. Swindle (3)
11. Some gametes (3)
12. Sign on some restroom doors (3)
13. Sis's sib (abbr., 3)
14. Superlative suffix (3)
18. Simple shirt (3)
22. Small songbird (3)
25. State between S. Dak. and Kan. (abbr., 3)
26. Some forensic evidence (init., 1,1,1)
27. Show stoppers? (abbr., 3)
28. Steeped beverage (3)
29. Slippery sort (3)
37. Symbol for chemical element #95 (2)
38. Speaker's reference to themselves and one or more other people (2)