STANDARD TWO-IN-ONE
CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS
9 After playing with the gun outside,
having a ball (5,3)
10 “Get me”, you say “water” (3)
11 Will come after, you understand (6) 12 An eagle injured and without a tail,
female (6)
13 In ‘The White Inn’, retracted the
story (7)
14 Want half of mine to go to the boy (4) 15 Tough luck, getting the money with
the curse attached to it? (3,7)
17 The material about me is a gross
fabrication (8)
18 The argument against, try to dispute (7) 19 Proceed to arrest (4)
21 Agree and a small double, neat, is
poured out (6)
24 A rest one can, in all honesty, enjoy
(3,5,2,3,4)
27 Goes by the mountain roads (6) 29 Caught one having an ice-cream (4) 30 Quite improper, old boy! An
unseemly display (7)
33 Lazy with a laziness that’s not just
skin-deep? (4,4)
35 It’s put on to hide a tear, it seems (10) 36 With a flap, it’s cooler (4)
37 Wind, haze and rain at the beginning
and end of April (7)
38 The cold one, indeed, foolishly
caught will clinch it (6)
40 A preparation that’s liquid, for a
change, not oil (6)
41 Not the cockney gentleman with the
fish (3) 42 Won’t appear in the nude turn, which is unusual (8)
DOWN
1 Be responsible for, when you turn the
ship round (5,5)
2 Covering the patient (4)
3 The matters to be spoken of are the
romances (8)
4 Quickly grabs, coming back, a cat
nap in it (5,2)
5 Result of crossing a vegetable with
an insect? (7,4)
6 For dessert have something nice
smelling with alcohol in it (10)
7 Her leg was broken and had to be set (6) 8 Having had the van watched, had
anticipated it (8) 10 A name that might suit you (5) 16 One’s state of health and suitability (7) 20 It’s sharp – no no, not the musical
instrument! (5)
22 Speaking French un petit peu (7) 23 The favourite, when in form (8,3) 25 Are you going to pay up? I won’t ask
you again! (4,6)
26 Is the fly deceived by it? (7,3)
28 The assumption is now the potion
has been mixed (8)
31 Pressed on, fed up now, roving (8) 32 Give a hand to Paul, moving into the
new pad (7)
34 Are turning the switch on when the
insect appears (6)
35 After thirty, she’s finished! (5) 39 Delighted to say it’s money (4)