CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 After playing with the gun outside, having a ball (5,3)

10 “Get me”, you say “water” (3)

11 Will come after, you understand (6)

12 An eagle injured and without a tail, female (6)

13 In “The White Inn”, retracted the story (7)

14 Want half of mine to go to the boy (4)

15 Tough luck, getting the money with the curse attached to it? (3,7)

17 The material about me is a gross fabrication (8)

18 The argument against, try to dispute (7)

19 Proceed to arrest (4)

21 Agree and a small double, neat, is poured out (6)

24 A rest one can, in all honesty, enjoy (3,5,2,3,4)

27 Goes by the mountain roads (6)

29 Caught one having an icecream (4)

30 Quite improper, old boy! An unseemly display (7)

33 Lazy with a laziness that’s not just skin-deep? (4,4)

35 It’s put on to hide a tear, it seems (10)

36 With a flap, it’s cooler (4)

37 Wind, haze and rain at the beginning and end of April (7)

38 The cold one, indeed, foolishly caught will clinch it (6)

40 A preparation that’s liquid, for a change, not oil (6)

41 Not the cockney gentleman with the fish (3)

42 Won’t appear in the nude turn, which is unusual (8)

DOWN

1 Be responsible for, when you turn the ship round (5,5)

2 Covering the patient (4)

3 The matters to be spoken of are the romances (8)

4 Quickly grabs, coming back, a cat nap in it (5,2)

5 Result of crossing a vegetable with an insect? (7,4)

6 For dessert have something nice-smelling with alcohol in it (10)

7 Her leg was broken and had to be set (6)

8 Having had the van watched, had anticipated it (8)

10 A name that might suit you (5)

16 One’s state of health and suitability (7)

20 It’s sharp - no no, not the musical instrument! (5)

22 Speaking French un petit peu (7)

23 The favourite, when in form (8,3)

25 Are you going to pay up? I won’t ask you again! (4,6)

26 Is the fly deceived by it? (7,3)

28 The assumption is now the potion has been mixed (8)

31 Pressed on, fed up now, roving (8)

32 Give a hand to Paul, moving into the new pad (7)

34 Are turning the switch on when the insect appears (6)

35 After thirty, she’s finished! (5)

39 Delighted to say it’s money (4)