CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Be concealing the heart
irregularity, or murmur (7) 9 Getting all the information
on and entering it (5,4) 13 Erect to accommodate (3,2) 14 Fed up, it turned and left (5) 15 Sign as sender, having wrapped
and enclosed the ring (7)
16 I’m returning the box sent
round by the shopkeeper (7) 17 Locations of the said tourist
attractions (5)
18 Look furious, but reduce it (5) 20 A name that suits you (5) 22 Draw conclusions from with justification (6)
23 A classical double-cross! (6) 25 Reproach for the pub brawl and subsequent police foray (7)
27 `Proceed to use as a tray?
(5,2)
30 `With “a born scoundrel,”
you put your foot in it (6) 31 `Possessions of which a quarter go to the government (6) 32 Come down with and surprise one in the act (5)
35 Is it exactly like another
game? (5)
36 Once due for release, discharge (5)
37 Locked horns in it, to put it
briefly (2,5)
39 A must, when reverting to
your fruit diet? (7)
41 Letter you got at the end of
the month (5)
42 Saw to, after taking the cat
back (5)
43 Frightened, as we collided
with the big vehicle (3-6) 44 Not wanting to act in “The
Tear I Shed” (7)
DOWN
1 Seem pained when the head
waiter takes their order (6) 2 “The stone is, perhaps,
flawed,” I interjected (8) 3 Now we’re in trouble - get out
the needle and thread! (5,4,2) 4 What the ugly creature is
sitting on, in the wood? (9) 5 Great, though jittery in the
beginning (7)
6 Is it responsible for the
draught in bed? (10)
7 Nick, waken up! (4)
10 Step aboard; there are
vacancies (6)
11 Girl the gypsy is gazing at so
intently? (7)
12 The ray, cooked, is substantial and nourishing (6) 19 Became unfashionable - or
dated (4,3)
21 Knock the left, though having an affinity with it (7) 24 Grasped it had been assumed control of (5,2,4) 26 Conjecture as to how far off
the fairway you’ve gone? (5,5) 28 Equally certain, can throw in
a guarantee (9)
29 Putting the master spy in
the shade (7)
30 Be encircling the birds and
perplex them (6)
32 Will the draper accept ready
money only for it? (8)
33 A stolen trophy, from Lancashire (6)
34 Mends and matches up the
socks again? (7)
38 Get a bit worried, on ringing (6) 40 Pulls up to study it (4)