Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS

10 Simulate action — pass formal proposals (2, 7, 3, 7)

11 Tender name designed to be term of affection (10)

12 Spoil one yellow bloomer that could also be orange (8)

13 Kitty found ball had been removed (4)

14 Little fine weather for the festival (7)

16 Leaving the book (6)

17 Like a toss-up, it’s risky (6) 19 Hurry in touring car to trace piggish sound (5)

20 Deserving person of eminent merit (6)

21 Round theatre? (5)

23 Roman villa houses iron block (5)

29 Last character in North Iowa produces bloomer (6)

30 Place dates in a different order (5)

32 Loose inside bright star system (6)

33 The very thing is felt differently (6)

35 More involved with the preceding principle (7)

37 Not about, stuck, puzzled with pointed tooth (4) 38 Ward, a disadvantage (8) 40 Aviation workers floor ship’s company (6, 4)

41 Stay upright and not go into the red (8, 4, 7)

DOWN

1 Study nothing in Irish province (9)

2 Peruse article about making one’s way through (9) 3 Temporarily appropriate (6) 4 Reggie, an eccentric coming to the same conclusion (8)

5 Condition said in Scotland to have existed before a change (6, 3)

6 Tiller, he left Minehead (4) 7 Sue and Rob coming from foreign stock market (6)

8 Royal snake? (4, 5)

9 Attack on something funny in the street (9)

15 It’s unacceptable wither way (3, 2)

18 Initially yacht always left there at port (5)

20 Squeeze said band (5)

22 Best accepting nothing that could make one drunk (5)

24 Winner, Scotsman from the 19th century (9) 25 A French river bore (9)

26 Black locomotive that can be used for flying (3, 6)

27 Wealthy ruler cut patrol out (9)

28 Living scene Tex and I reproduced (9)

31 Converted room used by small creature (8)

34 Accountant in father’s clutches during uproar (6)

36 Done with the hands by the book? (6)

39 Had been mistaken to include this county (4)