STANDARD TWO-IN-ONE CRYPTIC PUZZLE
ACROSS
9 An irritable “I have come to see the doctor” (9)
10 Feeling or evoking emotion (8)
12 Capturing a record in the comeback is one’s aim (4)
13 Talk one into becoming a thief (6)
14 Something you’ll want to polish off, on your plate (7)
15 And he swims in to land when you give assistance (4,1,4)
17 Awful big! (9)
18 Not artificial eyes, we’re told - they see (7)
20 Set off carrying a gun: was on foot (6)
21 Predicament the mouse is in? (4)
24 Certainly not a huge reduction (4,4)
26 Supplanted and put in the shade by (8)
28 He’s drawn from the bank (4)
29 Arranged and recorded by (6)
31 The heart of the country (7)
34 Perturbed to find it’s not yet been paid? (9)
36 How gradually the temperature warms up (2,7)
38 The body, or framework, of the vehicle (7)
39 Best of all, you have an option (6)
40 Race rings round him (4)
41 Having no inclination to travel, will move, I figure, into (8)
42 Composed a nicer song in the garden (9)
DOWN
1 One only is noteworthy (8)
2 Rick, from Paris, travelled north (6) 3
Think the pal tied knots in it (8)
4 Leave for the seaside (6)
5 The master went out and caught, again, a bad cold (8)
6 Didn’t say anything: only got in trim physically (8,2)
7 Suspicious of accepting it as a handout (7)
8 The one doing cartwheels, in blue (6)
11 “It’s cold, hurry up” does act as a curb (7)
16 Get off! It’s on fire! (6)
19 Be a diversion, and an inspiration to (5)
20 Signal back, too (3)
22 The letter about me has since turned up (5)
23 Animal that will pad about in the wood? (6)
25 Goodness, what do I say to the ambassador? (10)
26 The switch, man! (3)
27 A firm “Stop” (7)
30 Scoff at and get shot of one silly clue (8)
31 The mixture, shaken, is nice. I’d swallowed it myself (8)
32 Is unfaithful. See the lady is getting the run-around (8)
33 In difficulties, one jumps up to protect (7)
35 Played a first shot that was adequate (6)
36 Bring up the subject of the said item of jewellery (6)
37 All there by about ten to one again (6)