STANDARD TWO-IN-ONE CRYPTIC PUZZLE

ACROSS

8 Maintained I had got myself dressed to go out (7)

9 Understands guns won’t shoot with them (7,2)

13 Should you say anything (5)

14 The object is to get the spare key (5)

15 Not one of the big bands popular in

the Shirley Temple era (7)

16 Regard as a business (7)

17 How many, about, will be in the container? (5)

18 Late - or earlier (5)

20 Drinks to go with the pies I put out (5)

22 And snapped capturing the outlaw (6)

23 Though sent off, kept informed about (6)

25 Managed to get the wine you are searching for (7)

27 What luck and a lottery ticket may get you (7)

30 Annoyed at being given an anaesthetic (3,3)

31 The face shows a woman’s date of birth (6)

32 Talk of erasing us from the records (5)

35 To change the heading would be simple (5)

36 A promontory we haven’t yet come to (5)

37 Is no longer forgotten by fans (3-4)

39 Choose a single mother as the best (7)

41 See the tot is playing a game (5)

42 Push off and break (5)

43 Buy something at a furniture shop within easy reach (3-2-4)

44 Rock, or stone, it is embedded in (7)

DOWN

1 The bottle and tart, leave inside (6)

2 Upright but lacking drive (8)

3 Wreaking vengeance, or recovering (7,4)

4 What Comte Dracula ordered on a hot day, with aplomb? (4-5)

5 Very embarrassed, clumsily alters a figure in it (7)

6 Only a person involved in Chinese cooking will use it (4,6)

7 Take in the dessert (4)

10 It works like a charm and the boy goes up to bed (6)

11 Isn’t at work the day before - far from it (7)

12 Kept from the sun, taking to the shade (6)

19 Means the tin is defective, one concludes (7)

21 Talk while there’s time left to talk about (7)

24 Experienced, had looked at, one by one (4,7)

26 Plenty to eat at the Piazza Restaurant? (6,4)

28 A carnivorous plant? (5,4)

29 Order, for the fellow, fruit (7)

30 A good many stand by the gun (6)

32 Very sorry, but it’s uninhabited (8)

33 Poetry is kid stuff! (6)

34 Starts slicing a meat loaf found in the kitchen (7)

38 Wrests from the wild cats (6)

40 That was you being objective! (4)