Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS 3 Where practical foxes go? (4-2-5) 9 Benevolent chap taken in by Hugh as reported (6) 10 Groucho’s shout of pain? (4) 12 Consultant drives a wreck (7) 13 Swapped posters and switched (10) 14 Thus repeatedly mediocre (2-2) 15 A porridge is prepared for marmots (7-4) 16 Colour that is likely to become a Guide (7) 17 Bird found sweet fluid next to snake (5, 7) 21 They were wise to get first edition of the publication (4) 23 Greek hero badly beset by pangs (8) 25 Not married? Not in a workers’ group (3-5) 26 The fellow to keep at bay? (4) 27 A fit engineer organised money to be paid in advance (9, 3) 32 New list by Edward was stiff and pompous (7) 33 Actress greeted Nina after a fashion (11) 35 Peck neck (4) 37 Remark Ray could have made in the explanatory essay (10) 38 Leaves alight (7) 39 Some like pictures of forage cap (4) 40 Not in favour of study, drawing back (6) 41 Do dogs use these for biting? (6, 5) DOWN 1 Large number of sheds said with exclamation of disgust to be shameless audacity (8) 2 Not completely prejudiced about disease (8) 3 Derek, Greek character in Greek city (6) 4 Tirewoman from Cardiff? (5, 7) 5 What is difference between imports and exports? (5, 3) 6 Messenger loses nothing but jealousy (4) 7 Repair and give back (7) 8 Female centaur? (10) 11 Poll moulting first, it decides the tie (7, 4) 18 Occasionally but not for the third time (4, 2, 5) 19 Indifferent about aged (4) 20 Trying to escape taking part in athletics event (7, 1, 4) 22 Ain’t frantically opposed (4) 24 Thought catalogue 99 was impracticable (10) 28 Not a curt version for renegade (8) 29 Friendly gesture while it is hailing? (8) 30 Ordinary person who is not politically correct? (8) 31 Try to stop this treaty (4-3) 34 Some schoolchildren changing get extremely wet (6) 36 I mislead with picture on computer screen (4)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Self-important 11 Unsparing 12 Kittiwake 13 Lope 14 Shall 15 Rheostat 18 Doodle 19 Idiom 20 Starve 23 Dress for dinner 25 Beam 27 Ritz 28 Antarctic Ocean 30 Violet 31 Hoo-ha 33 Anorak 37 Taffrail 38 Libra 39 Sago 42 Orchestra 43 Hopscotch 44 Luck of the draw DOWN: 1 Squalid 2 Lost-property office 3 Iran 4 Plight 5 Regaled 6 Ankh 7 Tetchy 8 Riposte 9 Fast-breeder reactor 10 Weatherman 16 Slash 17 Cognac 21 Bound 22 Helix 23 Derivation 24 Dragon 26 Joint 29 Terrier 32 Heigh-ho 34 Know-how 35 Pistol 36 Armpit 40 Marc 41 Acme