Diversions & Puzzles
Puzzle No 1160
Clues across
1. Exist with teams as well (7) 5. Drop someone in a canal (5) 8. Smear British leader in promotional statement (5) 11. A diary note for a boxing match? It should have happened sooner (5,4) 12. Seamen loving liquid are showing mercy (9) 13. She has a certain thing, new or damaged (5) 14. Final Soviet leader endures (5) 15. Insult a female breast (7) 16. A means of concealment used by agile characters in noisy surroundings (3,4) 19. Younger folk see Scotland collapsing (11) 21. A Wellington landlord is a leading character (7,6) 24. Animal eating at home and cleaning up (5) 26. Thus far from a reinterpretation of Yeats (2,3) 28. Internet meant collapse in show business (13) 32. Garden tools troubling me tomorrow and Sunday (5,6) 35. Emus rotting in dump, no longer allowed (5,2) 37. Hot flan cooked to a large extent (3,4) 38. A digital means of getting a free ride (5) 40. Keen to have the Queen around a long time (5) 42. Bones reverberated uncannily after communist departed (9) 43. Glide along knowing and following the shore (9) 44. Newlyweds beginning to go on fairground attractions (5) 45. Escorts lay out promotional notice back to front (5) 46. Choirboys slightly burn rissoles on the outside (7)
Clues down
1. Appear as an upper-class man of means to drive back an attacker (4,3) 2. Faint poles at each end of court (5) 3. Discourage chap making a dishwasher (9) 4/22/39. Bad split enables husband, being included, to reveal all (5,3,5) 5. Hurry up and step into the region of the stars (4,5) 6. Start porn production to enthral (9) 7. Prisoner stirs the sago (7) 8. Shameless and beardless (4-5) 9. A Parisian icon is about right for a creature of the imagination (7) 10. Brought forth a child, the result of a wager about Georgia (5) 17. A traveller involved in dodgy psychic demonstrations? (5) 18. Fleas jumping? Wrong (5) 20. A sense of location you say? (5) 21. Assert mollusc has eaten one (5) 22. See 4 23. The way to cook taros? (5) 25. Articles with one leading the Maori manuscript (5) 27. Hater sent off with menaces (9) 29. Cash dispenser in kauri perhaps by new technology leader shows particular care (9) 30. Funds of note with origins (9) 31. Feeling less with profit turning up from prime London address (6,3) 33. Do utter rubbish as coached (7) 34. Popped the question or effed off (7) 36. The Spanish in quarrel over making bundles (7) 37. It’s not odd going up, right? Not at all (5) 39. See 4 41. Soar, I would, in endless delight (5)