Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Popular nightclub, place of high radioactivity (3, 4)

9 Hurry by the river when there’s a sudden demand for payment (3, 2, 3,4)

11 Greek character, one entered dance (7)

12 Number ten having debts that are deleterious (7)

13 On the other hand a hewer’s distraught (7)

14 Mind two moving towards centre of urban district (7)

15 Defame a large number during suspension of hostilities (7)

18 Boy to do some haymaking (3)

20 Glyn, the revolution is extensive (7)

22 Commercial on more suitable accessory plug (7)

23 Infectious disease about holiday time (7)

24 Ace trio performance, it’s pornographic (7)

25 Joined but left, having been seasoned outside (7)

26 Embarrassed with wick that had been shortened by bureaucracy (3, 4)

27 See minx tortured — by him? (7)

30 Black aeroplane (3) 32 Will Nessie appear therein with disease? (7)

36 30 across hound (7)

37 Drop high ball in messy glue (7)

38 More frequently free, not surprising (7)

39 Pilot used one Roman road before getting to hill (7) 40 Autocrat’s joint rule? (12) 41 A ton of land (7)

DOWN

1 Dunce has only fraction of intelligence (7)

2 Paddy has a painting medium (7)

3 Gold dish first, it is flat on top (7)

4 How footballers made sideto-side movement (11)

5 Stylish old work that is not precisely accurate (7)

6 Slept lightly despite no dozes developing (7)

7 Has Malcolm, after college, become abysmal? (7)

8 Leave wearing a tie? (7)

10 You won’t get tied up in knots if you do (4, 3,5)

16 Multiplied by four (12)

17 Keep from obtaining reed, VIP floundered (7)

19 Point to reason tending to excite (7)

21 Gang leader late in mixing glue! (7)

23 Monitor ripcord a hag united (11)

28 Vain yet upsetting ingenuousness (7)

29 New growths of vegetables (7)

30 Nervous type of bug unknown (7)

31 Block of money from derelict ranch expected (7)

33 A lot upsetting Scottish boy, one from an eastern country! (7) 34 Hot line (7)

35 Pierced a revolutionary leader in haste (7)