JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Practise (8) 10 Border (3)

11 Disregard (6) 12 Rarely (6)

13 Loyal (7) 14 Rhythm (4)

15 Rival (10)

17 Insinuation (8)

18 Flavouring (7)

19 Dance (4)

21 Drank (6)

24 Poet (7,10)

27 Agreement (6)

29 Entrance (4)

30 Friendly (7)

33 Dismounts (4,4)

35 Biscuit (6,4)

36 Row (4)

37 Great (7)

38 Gloomy (6)

40 Reptile (6)

41 Number (3)

42 Refutation (8)

DOWN: 1 Immediately (4,3,3) 2 Leash (4) 3 Flower (8) 4 Depart (3,4)

5 Sherry (11) 6 Everywhere (4,3,3)

7 Permit (6)

8 Material (8)

10 Cook (5)

16 Clear (7)

20 Concerning (5)

22 Maybe (7)

23 Fancy (11)

25 Undecided (2,3,5)

26 To-do (10)

28 Particular (8)

31 Demonic (8)

32 Means (7)

34 Shout (6)

35 Spirit (5)

39 Positive (4)

ACROSS

9 Are passed on to, but are not kept up (4,4)

10 Murmur sweetly “Blimey!” (3)

11 Do the wrong thing as well by getting a job (6)

12 Leave in the Aran knitting wool (6)

13 The sightseer is wandering, I trust, round inside (7)

14 Which of you has been given a command to stop?(4)

15 Posting a bill that’s supporting? (8,2)

17 What the gaze falls on in the bathroom cabinet? (3,5)

18 Put inside loose, fall out (7)

19 A piece of land is what it’s all about (4)

21 He goes in first to get a gadget from the kitchen (6)

24 Stopping at nothing to show how expansive one can be? (5,2,3,7) 27 Getting a whiff of, going up (6)

29 Found a job for, though old (4)

30 Consumed by a terrible anger, I caught the Greek (7)

33 An eccentric, but a first-class shot (8)

35 Taken home, had a nap (7,3)

36 Make a grab at and break (4)

37 Figures the nurse is out to capture the doctor (7)

38 Come out to get something from the garden (6)

40 In view of the fact that one’s not blindfolded (6)

41 In which to fish on a cold morning? (3) 42 The finest possibly head master: that’s obvious (8)

DOWN

1 Opposing everything, to no avail (3,7)

2 The meaning of love (4)

3 There’s a lesson to be learnt first from the philosopher (8)

4 Performing animal one is holding (2,5)

5 Having every moment occupied before you can say Jack Robinson! (2,4,2,3)

6 Decided to buy and to give up gallivanting (6,4)

7 Attractive feature of a cabinet? (6)

8 Divorce? (8)

10 The twit with the companion, at the piano (5)

16 Going to the island church, on a whim (7)

20 He’ll have a stab at it (5)

22 At about ten, very cold, was tempted to (7)

23 Capable of doing only little and that of a poor standard (3,2,2,4) 25 Energy a lie-abed stay-at-home lacks? (3-2-3-2)

26 A company tender? (5,5)

28 “Skipper” is the dog (8)

31 The person I scribbled the note to is resting (8)

32 Will eat the ice cream, you add, inside (7)

34 Is punished: for a policeman it’s disastrous (4,2)

35 Imagine the mother is ringing about (5)

39 If stuffed into the right crevice (4)