Standard two-in-one Cryptic Puzzle
ACROSS
9 How it was specified arms should
be dispensed with? (4,4) 10 Favouring on account of (3)
11 He will speak at, either before or after (6)
12 Twist to the music (6)
13 Back in the same trap, which one finds puzzling (7) 14 Broaches the return fight (4) 15 Writing in prison and peddling drugs (3-7)
17 Said to have seen (8) 18 Having one call round on and smoothing things over (7)
19 It’s a hair of the dog the morning after, doctor (4)
21 Half-turns a key, entering to get the pictures (6)
24 Accepting a humiliatingly small tip? (9,2,6)
27 Give the odd trim to father in it (6) 29 Go out together to get fruit (4) 30 Shifts out of investments (7) 33 Resolute from the beginning, making a case for the new law (8) 35 The strain of motherhood (6,4) 36 Force reluctantly to go to: it’s a bore (4)
37 A spray, perhaps, the so rich spoiled daughter goes in for (7) 38 The mother and son about to return travel a lot (6)
40 Bother to get a gift for the baby (6) 41 United came out on top, we’re told (3)
42 Opens up at sunset to the sailors (8)
DOWN
1 ‘Old jalopy’ does frighten and upset a bit (10)
2 She’s up and getting an early start (4)
3 Happenings after the resumption of activities? (6-2)
4 It’s peculiar, you conclude, to a certain kind of mice (7)
5 Mood in which false evidence is thought up? (5,2,4)
6 What you own to be a need for exorcism (10)
7 The old gold is for the clergyman (6) 8 Contend the figure has been entered in full (8)
10 Dance and have your little fun (5) 16 An expert press agent held to have a cure for everything (7) 20 ‘Prerogative’ is perfect (5)
22 A little music, one allows, has charms (7)
23 Can it tell you just where your golf ball has landed? (3,8) 25 Insurance for the bit player in ‘The Fielder’? (5,5)
26 Writing to dictation is lowering (6,4) 28 The data for the book on textiles? (8) 31 What heights the incredibility had reached? (8)
32 Swoon as you hand round? (4,3) 34 Flowing in the bar (6)
35 Ring Michael when Al has gone out (5)
39 Brand name (4)