Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS

7 One bishop put about by break (6) 8 Extensive meal freely distributed (10) 10 Bogeyman (7) 12 God’s correct having unquestionable authority (6, 5) 13 Dead-keen giant killer (5) 14 Helvetian roll (5) 15 Assume one is entering employment (5) 16 Final model (4) 17 Remained, we hear, sober (5) 19 It is read with feeling (7) 20 Men of letters almost able to read and write, I concluded! (8) 24 Pa left replica as souvenir (5) 27 Entertain Thalia perhaps (5) 28 Enter ref struggling with woody bracken (4, 4) 29 Man provided backing with large number doing mischief (7) 31 Defeat excited group (5) 33 Only partially advisable to have this on one’s passport (4) 34 Indicate fielding position (5) 35 In Lagos carving gets award (5) 37 I shut up about demand (5) 39 Spot trachea abnormality, a calamity (11) 40 Sound advice from committee (7) 41 Edward produces toys (5, 5) 42 Sacristan employed ten inside (6)

DOWN

1 Conclusive evidence vital principle has standard mixture of alcohol and water (5, 6) 2 Going rate (5) 3 Stiff dress I had (5) 4 One in watery grave (7) 5 Peers abandoned frolic (5) 6 Half-deity from Megiddo (7) 7 Wok in error could have been used by one making decorative gates (10) 9 Hilda cultivated a flower (6) 11 In the salad left the spoon (5) 12 Melt — devil’s so confused (8) 15 Some milk or paint perhaps (5) 18 Accountant on course (4) 21 Material, it may be felt (8) 22 Mimic one individual in reshuffled team (11) 23 Endless testimonial about judgment (10) 25 Weep quietly with model at burial place (5) 26 His Excellency be following cupbearer (4) 29 Mad fellow in charge (5) 30 Wizard place in market to find composer (6) 31 Being awkward, let go of fork (7) 32 Proposition from article covering raw material mined initially (7) 36 Some methylated spirit? (5) 37 Main map (5) 38 Farmer accompanied by his dog in song (5)