Everyone’s Crossword
ACROSS 1 One who is austere and sour about society (7) 9 Where the needle slipped unofficially? (3-3-6) 11 I run hem round metal (7) 12 Dampen some tin contraption (7) 13 Nelson’s hair too dishevelled (7) 14 Partly coincide with completed circuit (7) 15 Dispute during exercises on board having superior ability (7) 18 Born to one expecting inside (3) 20 Each harsh Oriental (7) 22 Plainly this figure has eight sides (7) 23 Nevertheless we hang about (7) 24 Scramble young fish and cook rapidly in pan (4-3) 25 Spaniel stopped short of snare (7) 26 Medicine to set old boy back (7) 27 Drawing rig Adam mangled (7) 30 Annoy Trev, exploited somewhat (3) 32 Predate arrangement that became smaller at one end (7) 36 Nightmare in island disregarding a busy centre (7) 37 Beginnings of speeches from old dilapidated radio (7) 38 Hesitantly five having common sense going round in a jumpy state (7) 39 Detach one so much after time (7) 40 Behaviour during meals of naughty stableman Ern (5, 7) 41 Builder loses alternative before second half of July in a straight-backed way (7) DOWN 1 Not a seagoing liner (7) 2 Farewell to good health (7) 3 The remarkable list included plant (7) 4 House seen in revolt despite sound practical judgment (6, 5) 5 Continental coming from Ouagadougou perhaps (7) 6 Bobbin-like device in service (7) 7 Nero and I could have accepted yellow raw material (4, 3) 8 Frostiness here in France on top of headland (7) 10 Unpleasant eagle, seabird fluttering (12) 16 Notice priest baffling hotel employee (12) 17 What we might be doing with it when we get a ring (7) 19 Squeeze out from exit disregarding one — ill-mannered (7) 21 Found in centre a clear golden substance (7) 23 Suppose fixing agent had been placed on top of essay with energy (11) 28 Fanatically becoming ribald before end of day (7) 29 Revolutionary Siam men, call them by the wrong title (7) 30 Six books about Burma oddly thrilling (7) 31 Produced copy in the office (7) 33 Offer work in prose (7) 34 Smiling or laughing about now (7) 35 Doctor giving monkey colony fabrics (7) LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION ACROSS: 9 Secularism 11 Milch cow 12 Alight 13 Jigsaw puzzle 14 Ogre 15 Caducei 16 Bakery 17 Baptistery 18 Next door 19 Elegance 21 Telltale 24 Sanction 26 Equivocate 29 Iguana 30 Picador 31 Ibex 32 Crash barrier 34 Morale 35 Athletic 36 Face-saving DOWN: 1 Pellagra 2 Dung beetle 3 Hart 4 Misjudge 5 Impatience 6 Flop 7 Whizz-kid 8 Collarbone 10 Magic eye 15 Costa Rica 16 Box clever 19 Exaggerate 20 Conspiracy 22 Architrave 23 Kerchief 25 Coarsely 27 Underact 28 Tree-line 33 Butt 34 Most