Qantas

Cryptic clues

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Across 10 Harrison included direction to ravine (6) 11 Tracks liar’s transforma­tion (5) 12 Meanwhile, a guest has secret associatio­n (6) 13 Urges one to become kind (8) 14 Supplying men’s clothes that are unfashiona­ble, being the right size (10) 15 Merchant takes back rare dartboard part (6) 16 Organ plugged into socket? (3) 18 Promising guy started chasing Russian model (8) 19 Agree nests’ contents are least damaging to the environmen­t (8) 21 Rogue son is behind gang getting control (10) 24 Discards baskets (4) 25 He lines up shots for his clients (9) 27 Mourners sadly leave Rome with funerary vases (4) 28 Develops problem in gas meter (10) 31 Wraps up first scene and walks like Donald (8) 33 For whom returning is an obligation? (8) 36 Andrew ran away in morning moisture (3) 37 Dangers for each one with hollow legs (6) 39 They’re plotters, of course (10) 41 They use guns to hunt small owls (8) 42 Make changes to stir up pedant (6) 43 Wave or join hands as a greeting (5) 44 Run trance party (6) Down 1 Layer is even designed to go on queen (6) 2 Lonely Les is embraced by buddies (10) 3 Commodity is secure or unstable? (8) 4 Minerals explorer is in support of cost per explosion (10) 5 I rob novel writer (4) 6 Good places for people to park their butts (8) 7 Takes applicatio­ns for insurance payouts (6) 8 Gets footage of arrests (8) 9 Go to bed when turning off central light (4,2) 17 Said former lover was pushy? (9) 20 Mention rear (5) 22 Blunder recorded in BlackBerry (3) 23 On cue, trouble in Oz (5) 25 Burned off red part of hot dog (3) 26 Appliance used to clean receivers? (10) 27 Get beneath witness box (10) 29 Dean is making cocktails (8) 30 I rest, too, getting beaten by slow racer (8) 32 Strategy to get loom (8) 34 Nothing left out from plaque is unclear (6) 35 We halt distributi­on of fortune (6) 38 Bigger sample of cellular germs (6) 40 Hunk builds labs (4)

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