Standard two-in-one Cryptic Puzzle

ACROSS

9 Accepted the position, as it happened (4,5)

10 Has a flirtation – and doesn’t stop at

that (7,2)

12 A teeny bit upset by the facts (4) 13 In its stead, I have fish (6)

14 What will it do if it catches a fly? (7) 15 Slight possibility that you won’t be

working? (3,6)

17 So is on the spot with the van (9) 18 Allows that one is in pain (7)

19 Are these trainees little bounders? (6)

In English and French says “Revise it” (4)

Submitted to the current editor (9) The meter he can do without (9) It’s not turning the key that makes the sound (4)

Briefed on the first day (6)

They warn us the lady’s also backed into it (7)

Neither do we gain by changing nationality (9)

Drive in France (9)

Like the girl who’s coming first in the charm competition? (7) Moves quickly and tries to catch the ball (6)

Flash a smile (4)

Make a copy for and make it smaller all round (9)

Assume Daniel is working in the plant (9) 20

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DOWN

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7 8 11 16 Working hard at the workshop ourselves (8)

Ages of the tennis-playing mother and daughter? (5,7)

Faults responsible for one’s being ploughed in the exam? (8)

Give up work again: get fed up with it (6) Taken to be the done thing (8)

“Be a Gold-digger”: an American brochure (10)

The awful pair returned, determined on becoming thieves (7)

Have more sense than to become further acquainted with (4,6)

A number also being worried about multiple firings (5)

Having leant over, he had grabbed the fish

ACROSS

9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 20 23 25 26 27 29 32 34 35 36 37 38 39 Yuletide (9) Observable things (9) Single entity (4) Debris (6) Watered down (7) Residue (9)

Dare (9) Temporal (7)

Edible tuber (6) Cooking fat (4) Small sausage (9) Sullied (9) Require (4)

Plot (6)

Vocalists (7) Impudence (9) Inundate (9) French country house (7) Prizes, medals, etc. (6) At a great distance (4) Disregarded (9) Imposing (9) 19 21

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29 30

31 33 34 (6)

Fish caught do wriggle (3)

Frantic attempt made when a lot is hanging in the balance? (9,3)

Again forcing me to be aloof (6)23 Very briefly, help with the compilation of the lexicon (3,2,1,4)

Proving, by the expulsion of (7,3)

He’s no good at reversing, either (3) At home when the gentleman comes round: a politician (8)

Having passed over, going back to again (8)

It ends stirringly, with me captured in the grounds (8)

By five one’s in, cooking the meat (7) For the trip north, fly (3,2)

Light left on, get into the unmade bed (6)