Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Only one clicking sound produced in very short time (4, 1, 4)

5 Officer of vessel I read about (9)

11 Permit solo rendition in the capital (10)

12 Made live antics of the Middle Ages (8)

13 Left one part desolate (8) 14 Despite lacking skill in school subject, one’s to get right mark almost (10)

15 Force to retire but leave in the field? (3, 3, 2, 5)

23 A box, one Angus used for vegetable (9)

24 Donkey rudely upset without a doubt (9)

25 Playful sort of dog? (3)

26 Metal coin (9)

27 Among other things in a dead language (5, 4)

28 Insect crushed in play area (7, 6)

36 Hurried inside during quite an extraordinary period of isolation (10)

38 He included, after lunchtime, two beginners and Sidney on the slope (8)

39 New ritual by good man, one with unselfish concern for others (8)

40 Tested for at least the second time (2-8)

41 Thief is central suspect (9)

42 Chance to risk being done in a way that has not been planned (9)

DOWN

1 This sale’s a mess (6)

2 Placing one in pain (6)

3 Highest peak to the greatest extent (7)

4 Bear a little lower (5)

6 Rugby physician had a degree (5)

7 Idea got round about bloomer (7)

8 Attract one with another ten about six (6)

9 Widow had souvenir model (6) 10 Square item of clothing, it’s worn casually (1-5)

15 Firm about wine that’s inferior (7)

16 Non-chemical cargo in spillage (7)

17 Willingly left (7)

18 Sanctioning as all right in German capital (7)

19 Father leaves French city with German fellow to get Italian dish (7)

20 Enquiry agent of course (7) 21 In Peru, surprisingly seize power (5)

22 Fine line bearing natural aptitude (5)

29 Local indicator (3, 4)

30 People in general accept alternative hypothesis (6)

31 Take away the lead (7) 32 It comes as a sudden blow (6)

33 Server’s salver (6)

34 Lady is turning up earth used as pigment (6)

35 Took notice of male journalists (6)

37 9 down usually contained her stress (5)

38 Animal desire within both ends of hacienda (5)