Trick or Treat

a cryptic puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Puzzle grid

Every clue answer involves a "trick" (having its letters anagrammed to make a new word entered in the grid) or a "treat" (being given an extra letter to make a new word entered in the grid). There are 20 "trick" words and 20 "treat" words; answer lengths have been omitted to keep each type disguised until its clue has been solved.

There are four proper nouns among clue answers and four among diagram entries.

Across

  • 1.
    Halloween costumes to bear
  • 5.
    Set fire to land
  • 10.
    Afterthought about angry buccaneers
  • 11.
    Part of troupe running by
  • 12.
    Poor sense of pitch makes musical note approximate (two words)
  • 13.
    Name adopted by cagey actor
  • 14.
    Frees Utes in revolts
  • 16.
    'Team expressed sorrow to audience
  • 18.
    Opera singer makes eager return
  • 19.
    Splattered tar gets outhouse ruined
  • 23.
    $1000 notice returned to Spanish noblemen
  • 26.
    Fly around left of the sun
  • 28.
    Audibly cut fruit
  • 29.
    Flower rates poorly
  • 32.
    Like a silly goose eating small nuts
  • 33.
    Material in Conrad novel
  • 34.
    Lennon's love is performing nothing
  • 35.
    Incline to like money
  • 36.
    Set out twice to fly
  • 37.
    Answer about the Greek city

Down

  • 1.
    Model's back framed by a right painter
  • 2.
    Almost obliterate Times
  • 3.
    Bridle makes horse's head change
  • 4.
    Stick on eastern tree
  • 5.
    Rich woman's parents
  • 6.
    Make a record of some lumber
  • 7.
    Get retribution for England in prayer
  • 8.
    Professor has hot drink with pop singer
  • 9.
    University in Georgia offers drawing
  • 14.
    Black shabby bales
  • 15.
    Many an authority falls, we hear
  • 17.
    Farmer gives vegetables to colony member
  • 20.
    Water bird swallows one drug
  • 21.
    Perches Haley novel around front of shelf
  • 22.
    Pets around red wagons
  • 24.
    Andre wandering in old forest
  • 25.
    Notices shortstop bearing big belly
  • 27.
    Bind large tree
  • 30.
    Tidy trap catches one
  • 31.
    Put on an English professor