It's another FONTzine crossword. I thought we'd go easy on you this year. OK, I wanted to improve the chances of someone actually completing the thing for once. So this one is probably somewhat less evil than our previous efforts.

As usual, all the answers/clues have a fantasy or SF slant. There's stuff from books, comics, TV, films, the works. Some are hugely famous, some are mind-numbingly obscure. Have fun.

[note: one clue assumes that it is the year 2001]

Across

1. It's not quite dark in here (3,8,4)
7. Little Andy kills the buggers... (6,4)
9. The was, is or will be? (3)
10. He says he's a free man (6,3)
12. Really big rats! (1,1,1,1)
15. Crossed Einstein for a Hugo (6)
18. Ex-sceptic (6)
19. Everyone Listens. (6)
21. Psychic Investigator (8)
24. Fighter pilots you can fit on the head of a pin? (6)
25. Snowy postwoman (6)
26. Covet sibling of death (6)
27. Element (3)
28. Creator of tales of enlightened creatures, almost the edge (4)
29. Not a playing, he's an author (4)
30. Harrison's crook or China's king (3)
31. Pregnant Man (4)
33. Tells tales of smoke and mirrors (6)
34. MCP's bane (4)
35. Man plus space merchant equals? (4)
36. Not of this Earth (abbrev.) (1,1)
37. Young hiker of the heavens? (4)
38. Rukbat III (4)

Down

1. Eternity, before peace. (3,7,3)
2. Infinite, Anthropomorphic Personifications (7)
3. Herbert's Battle of the Planets (3,2,3,6)
4. The Running X-Man (5)
5. Very sad life, probably very sad death. (7)
6. Hero in Sagas of small films (6)
8. Mnemosyne (6)
11. Manticore's finest (3)
13. Spies, always having affairs! (5)
14. Re-heated pizza delivery boy (3)
16. Showoff from Wall Street? (5,6)
17. Metropolitan man (4)
20. This guy is really not CGI! (3,8)
22. Speaker-to-Animals (2,8)
23. He couldn't bring himself to shoot it down in flames (5)
26. Commander John Koenig's daughter, honest. (8)
27. Wanderer who's not lost (7)
29. This is his year. (6)
31. A marvel writer for the year 2000 (5)
32. Wheeled Knight (4)

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