Everyone’s Crossword
ACROSS
1 Bitterness of man about to be monarch (9)
5 Astonished, almost certain to have been forced (9)
11 Stubble remover keenly used? (5, 5)
12 In France he could create some ruin! (8)
13 Aye, Wally might be in the passage (8)
14 Forks gamin removed from principal herald (4-2-4) 15 Complaints’ box? (8, 5) 23 Handguns, minute weapons (5, 4)
24 Arriving after red-carpet ceremony? (7, 2)
25 Bell the cat (3)
26 Clothing cockney lady in club (9)
27 True, a cent can be exchanged, it can be said (9)
28 Time allowed to pay a bill – or say a prayer? (6, 2, 5)
36 I obtain odd twitch from drug (10)
38 Larks in a new country (3, 5)
39 Do not forget sapper (8)
40 In fairness or disparity (10)
41 Flat garden? (6, 3)
42 Presumably not a rough fellow (9)
DOWN
1 Springy? (6)
2 Real trouble going round the bend twice in rowdy frolic (6) 3 Joint editor jostled (7)
4 Madly eager about type of paving (5)
6 A Parisian chap to weaken (5) 7 There is not much of an opening for this sort of camera (7)
8 Lady on the right lines fortified wine (6)
9 Clothes you, say, included with restraint (6)
10 Involuntary movement in short coat (6)
15 Effeminate chap produced silk mop (7)
16 Eleven earls troubled Middle Easterner (7)
17 I name position of another as an alternative (7)
18 Spike’s handy cover – sound device (7)
19 Lots break into the lady’s case (7)
20 Carrying capacity of agent on a bender (7)
21 Grimace that will anger
sergeant-major first (5)
22 Orange current? (5)
29 Arch, painter in the front of the ship (7)
30 Inside porch I described the bloomer (6)
31 A large number I question inside will divide equally (7) 32 Torment at school (6)
33 Good man gives the last word on part of flower (6)
34 Not well in company (6) 35 Ravine found in Tuscany only once (6)
37 Doctor sore section of trunk (5)
38 Eve is lifting colander (5)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
ACROSS: 9 Little Women 10 Tribal 11 Temporally 12 Threnody 13 Quiet 14 Mistake 15 Wrong 18 Fresh fruit salad 21 Verdigris 22 Stimulate 24 Domestic science 27 Sixth 28 Built-up 29 Bothy 32 Phase out 33 Nonchalant 34 Ananas 35 Tennis elbow
DOWN: 1 Firebug 2 Stopper 3 Zebra 4 No-claims discount 5 Demystify 6 Stark 7 Dinner table 8 Garden party 12 Take up the running 16 Frigate 17 Stomach 19 Demolishing 20 Advertising 23 Icelander 25 Worldly 26 Chinook 30 Joust 31 Chest