Giant Crossword
Across
8 Not the twit who’s thin on top? (7)
9 Why the hard-bitten crook gave himself
up? (6,3)
13 Time to turn in, the soldier reveals (5)
14 Get the letter off (5)
15 Run back to find people trapped in agony (7) 16 Adds to the contents of the jug (7)
17 Was wobbly from the second blow (5)
18 The cry of an animal, though you say no (5) 20 Run right into the chopper, turning (5)
22 Concealed a number in the latter half (6)
23 Many, since, having been badly affected by
cuts (6)
25 The biggest exam, everybody will enter for (7) 27 Said “Awful racket outside” with scorn (7)
30 An obvious attempt to discourage imitators (6) 31 Conclude it’s a coating of some kind (6)
32 Tips from people who are not to be trusted (5) 35 Give the last ball-point to (5)
36 Rule out the hundred in cash (5)
37 Three meals a day and money you don’t have
to work for (7)
39 So see first the performer (7)
41 Following in the rafters (5)
42 Stop in the shade, terribly hot (5)
43 Experience, when you rehearse (2,7)
44 He’ll wait until the trip is over (7)
Down
1 Someone noisily closing the door of the old
car? (6)
2 What I see floating in a great expanse of
water (5,3)
3 Created excitement when one dived off the
bridge into the river? (4,1,6)
4 Change your mind when you regain
consciousness (4,5)
5 Wrongly accept to be an accident (7)
6 Don’t forget to carry inside and look
after (4,2,4)
7 Produced, to make the hole with (4)
10 Tell you it’s right and make you very happy (6) 11 Beasts barking at small dogs (7)
12 Is keen to get the building site surrounding
the church (6)
19 Tend to stoop (7)
21 Drank to get warm (7)
24 In which, drunk on the hard stuff, one’s very
merry (4,7) 26 To give it significance, at the end
we land outside (4,6)
28 Empty the sack (9)
29 “Strived” is wrong, but it does
amuse one (7)
30 If you don’t mind listening to
excuses (6)
32 Not voting to give to one’s
successors (4,4)
33 The Scottish leader is given
access by the guard (6)
34 He eats a lot – too much, putting
weight on (7)
38 One by one forming part of the
act (2,4)
40 See, all right, when you open
your eyes (4)