JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 US mountain dweller (slang) (9) 10 Unbalanced (3-5)

12 Japanese wrestling (4)

13 Street (6) 14 Impartial (7)

15 Questioning and mocking (9)

17 Talkative (9)

18 Augment (7)

20 Earnest request (6)

21 Fencing sword (4)

24 Sports matches (8)

26 Carry on (8)

28 Gemstone (4)

29 Food fish (6)

31 Underwater missile (7)

34 Original plan (9)

36 Place side by side (9)

38 Showing tiredness (7)

39 Jerk back (6)

40 Play divisions (4)

41 Arrange (8)

42 Administrative branch (9)

DOWN: 1 Body size and shape (8)

2 Graduates (6) 3 Collarbone (8)

4 Book of hymns (6) 5 Might (8)

6 Penal institution (4,6)

7 Flimsy (7)

8 Carry too far (6)

11 Wound dressing (7)

16 Highest point (6)

19 Hirsute (5)

20 Vehicle (3)

22 Dried plum (5)

23 Mountain range (6)

25 Kitchen utensil (7,3)

26 Snooker stick (3)

27 Wild West characters (7)

30 Information superhighway (8)

31 Fabrics (8)

32 Manager (8)

33 Best (7)

35 Lacking caution (6)

36 Clothing item (6) 37 Flowering plant (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Role I played in “Bring Home The Bacon” previously (7,2)

10 Destined to be an invalid? (3-5)

12 Say crossly “I can match that” (4)

13 Up and away, so to speak (6)

14 I’m into artificial jewellery as a diversion (7)

15 In the event, made the wagging tail act as a fan (9)

17 Prattling about what it’s fuelled by? (7,2)

18 Smuggled loot you search for (7)

20 Dislike, you confess, having the fellow come round (4,2)

21 Yet to be decided – nothing put on paper (4)

24 Smart aleck it would be advisable to get the measure of (8)

26 Disconcerting the two fish (8)

28 A Chuck White (4)

29 From the figure, look about to die from lack of food? (6)

31 Talk about the quartet that’s for your ears only (7)

34 Had improved one’s image, it was felt, again (9)

36 Emphasises, when one draws (6,3)

38 A warning from someone who’ll be laughed at (7)

39 Try to talk out of, with justification (6)

40 Foreigner in a noisy pub (4)

41 Letting off steam outside, a great many sailors (8)

42 In which low songs are sung? (4,5)

DOWN

1 Manages to convey, when one recovers from (4,4)

2 Decree there must be a hole, to drain off (6)

3 Shrink, that’s the snag (8)

4 Ask to have it injected into a different vein (6)

5 Depart, accompanied by X (8)

6 Leaving via the ramp? (7,3)

7 Mean to take a cut on garden produce (7)

8 Regarding the granting of an interview (6)

11 Intending to show the significance of (7)

16 Is trapping game illicitly in the pictures (6)

19 No sound is heard in the stable (5)

20 Expected as one’s right (3)

22 The animal now has a sleep standing up (5)

23 Travelling regularly from Petershead but saying otherwise? (6)

25 Becoming hooked by. It is gaining popularity (8,2)

26 Having bought it at the herbalist’s, would you wish you hadn’t? (3)

27 Do better with the pudding – something whimsical (7)

30 Hot and bothered by the organisation (3,5)

31 I soon skipped through “Catching the Killer” (8)

32 Spread out, once looked after (8)

33 A very bad match? (7)

35 The bird fluttering out is able to (6)

36 Make the young drink (6)

37 Top-hole equipment in the beginning (6)