JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES 10 14

ACROSS: 9 Loathe (9) Girl’s name (8) 12 Blood (4) 13 Mad (6) Cyclone (7)

15 Incisive (9) 17 Bleak (9)

18 Chorus (7)

20 Movement (6)

21 Resound (4)

24 Saviour (8)

26 Tree (8)

28 Ritual (4)

29 Slanted (6)

31 Get level with (5,2)

34 Held (9)

36 Awful (9)

38 European language (7)

39 Hit (6)

40 Grotto (4)

41 Small fleet (8)

42 On hand (9)

DOWN: 1 Hoodlum (8) 2 Gruff (6)

3 Claim (8) 4 Leave (6) 5 Boxing blow (8) 6 Bird (10) 7 Fears (7)

8 Gratify (6)

11 Abandoned (7)

16 Pit (6)

19 Speedy (5)

20 Ruin (3)

22 Squash (5)

23 Sew (6)

25 Gloomy (10)

26 Rotter (3)

27 Exact (7)

30 Stand (8)

31 Gossip (8)

32 Stolen (8)

33 Emit (7)

35 Almost (6)

36 Conventional (6)

37 Flaccid (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Immediately, is in an awkward position (2,3,4) 10 With which the bout began or, to put it otherwise, opened (5,3)

12 Don’t go – postpone it (4)

13 Goes to pieces when one gives the news to? (6)

14 Waste food (7)

15 Packed ready to go off it means you’ll be back soon (3,6)

17 Prayer gives the worried four new hearts (3,6) 18 Fidgety as ever, it’s moving about (7)

20 All of a doodah holding the runaway: a potential killer (6)

21 It’s a permit, miss (4)

24 Telling jokes, is very good (8)

26 “Only mousse of cod”, I put in, “and not very good” (8)

28 Was sorry and, in turn, embarrassed about (4) 29 Make a big thing of and get very angry (4,2) 31 A cab and the dog angered by it? (7)

34 A deviation from the previous ways of taking off? (9)

36 Stops when the holiday’s cancelled (6,3)

38 “The little two”: a clue for you! (7)

39 Stops to let me in, which changes things (6) 40 The person who misinformed you in the back bar (4)

41 Only thing the hungry burglar was interested in? (4,4)

42 Agreed on a cocktail that’s innocuous to drink (9)

DOWN

1 Think “Drink!” when the son staggers in (8)

2 Hold on, there! That’s my boy friend! (6)

3 Tear up agitatedly again after opening (8)

4 Notes the great effort (6)

5 The car swerves, there’s a yell and you lose consciousness (5,3)

6 Propose to adjust the clock that’s losing time (3,7)

7 The officer is driven mad by the silly “40” (7)

8 Some of the music from “Kidnap”? (6)

11 A gun turret? (3-4)

16 Show I even scribbled a note to pop in (6)

19 His name is fabricated! (5)

20 Trail the convict (3)

22 Her days are numbered (5)

23 Gloomy, getting the key to the rooms let out (6)

25 What the rep wants the customer to say? I believe you! (3,3,4)

26 Hair of the dog, knocked back! (3)

27 Take out and stick in a purplish cover (7)

30 A question always put to, if time is of no consequence (8)

31 Someone who’ll watch over, for a charge (8) 32 Spoken of as ³The arbiter who slipped up² (8) 33 The clergyman before; the previous one (7) 35 Fruit crops (6)

36 To hide the hole well, I weave all round it (3,3) 37 Herb is on about some place in Latvia (6)