CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Bread that’s not wrapped? (5,4)

10 Earned, for having arrested (6,2)

12 Said it’s part bread (4)

13 Got the snake trapped? That’s capital! (6)

14 “Tourist” is one of the fallers (7)

15 Enjoyment the athlete who broke the record had? (5,4)

17 The plant, a weed, will run rampant in a while (9)

18 Cut back not definite? (7)

20 Compensated for having given material assistance (6)

21 You get the point (4)

24 Get ready for attack (3,5)

26 Arrived or, conversely, pulled out (6,2)

28 Again it’s too much (4)

29 Feel and be strangely weak (6)

31 Mended the tent the kid had damaged (7)

34 Had been a forger, one didn’t let oneself forget (4,1,4)

36 They’re unable to hear or see the cars outside (5,4)

38 Asks to name the child (5,2)

39 Unseated from the said seat (6)

40 Duck, chum! It’s a stone! (4)

41 Pray tell me, lady (3,5)

42 Unwilling to get an awful clutter outside tidied up (9)

DOWN

1 It means you’ve given your consent and no mistake! (3,5)

2 Miner has no right to dog (6)

3 The wild lion is put in her care (8)

4 Single out the cold water pipe with the hole in it (6)

5 Says one’s piece in a high voice? (6,2)

6 A plain no? (4,6)

7 Doesn’t let one forget about and is disturbed by (7)

8 For the not very intelligent, it’s easy (6)

11 The doctor and the sick man made well (7)

16 The bird flying out is able to (6)

19 In the south of France, an English member of the family (5)

20 Go off hill climbing (3)

22 Visit, late, a place you visit often (5)

23 Through his mistake, die (6)

25 A most individual means of getting a private road (4,3,3)

26 Feel sorry, in a way, for the French (3)

27 Creatures that are party to a terrible crime (7)

30 Whispered “The beard is a disguise” (8)

31 Be fully aware that you are no stranger to (4,4)

32 Does, perhaps, at night appear lonely (8)

33 An extract from “The Corridor” (7)

35 Taking the key, gets out a roll of money (6)

36 The dog, the time after, got upset by the poison (6)

37 Pop back and ring to make a request (6)