CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Flown over, he had covered it (7) 9 Meets on the crash course? (5,4) 13 With characteristic skill, reversing it (5) 14 Women love ordering about - I for one (5) 15 Is looking for compliments (7) 16 Not pouring into the can I prepared to hold it (7) 17 Liking the result of one’s elbow grease (5) 18 Move slowly, with a quack, into the drink! (5) 20 It shines when the sun ain’t out! (5) 22 A river fish caught in a moat (6) 23 In consequence, the others turn left to enter (6) 25 One is restoring order in it, but it’s most unpleasant (7) 27 Be aware that you can make it come true (7) 30 Give you a feeling of excitement when you attack (4,2) 31 He disputes it, with weight (6) 32 Mean the i, small, should be a capital (5) 35 A little tart and a cake with no filling (5) 36 High jinks - and they’re often very high! (5) 37 He was captured many years after (7) 39 At last somehow nail the fly, having trapped it (7) 41 That’s uncle starting the barn dance (5) 42 Miss the green (5) 43 “First-class meals” is right (9) 44 Extend the period of time (7)
DOWN
1 A land governed by the same chief (6) 2 Bottle up the remainder of the water (8) 3 When food is to be dished out in jail (7,4) 4 Bird that created havoc in the china shop? (9) 5 Rejected the incentive and returned home (7) 6 Reminds that you’ve forgotten to give the front door key to? (5,1,4) 7 It’s pouring rain and cooler (4) 10 Becomes attached to and puts up with (6) 11 Cheated, being warped (7) 12 While having had a very French upbringing, you say (6) 19 Boxer who gets his opponents livid? (7) 21 Sticking ever-closely to fact? Definitely (3,4) 24 At which people seek to be entertained? (6,5) 26 A warning about cigarettes being bad for you? (5,5) 28 Most unhappy to learn the store has gone into liquidation (9) 29 To walk off with a few trophies is delightful (7) 30 Information that the lorry is going to shed its load? (3-3) 32 It’s very easy to topple (4-4) 33 Pip again in and you get angry (3,3) 34 A ploy to restrain the frisky bay - a real fun lover (7) 38 For each pastry one consumes (6) 40 The m,o,nory of “money”? (4)