Crossword

GIVE YOUR BRAIN A WORKOUT

It’s like a workout for your brain!

ACROSS

9 Family cites new science (8) 10 Broadcasting system becomes a friend (3) 11 Alternatively, youngster left out a bloomer (6) 12 Constructing cot, worker made part of a circle (6) 13 Male feline gets caught in tuba (7) 14 Flutes surrounding another instrument (4) 15 Spinning machine created cute fringe (10) 17 Telling family member (8) 18 Secrecy of some bombers (7) 19 Details of his pectorals (4) 21 Argonaut takes gold home first (6) 24 Treatment – that takes me back (10,7) 27 Miniature old basin gets thrown around (6) 29 Air Force has time for simple vessel (4)

DOWN

1 Gain city a large bottle (10) 2 Iron, thanks to cheese (4) 3 Line travelled in London area (8) 4 Solved this sum to get a bit of land ( 7) 5 The excitement of a charged current (11) 6 Heron flying with combination to find dark amphibole (10) 7 Old church has a great deal for cat (6) 8 Endless goodness shown by huge round master (8) 10 Bean shows sign of life (5) 16 Used as great crowd disperser (4,3) 20 Evidence of alcohol (5) 22 Superficial, swapping end bulb ( 7) 23 Hags portray new mapping of the heavens (11) 25 Menial trio running someone’s last race (10) 26 New boy has a right to give thug a hand (10) 28 Thor-shaped image in camera tube (8) 31 Poem that’s initially meaningful (8) 32 A number turn it green ( 7) 34 Miner wore European fur (6) 35 German left award to the world (5) 39 Defraud out of a drink (4) 30 Everything in grey displayed in exhibition hall (7) 33 Anglo-Saxon prince hating to work with the Spanish (8) 35 Group of children have share of genetic material (10) 36 Old country is different in the morning (4) 37 Sailor, unaccompanied, finds shell (7) 38 Percussion instrument reportedly has character (6) 40 First appeared to have energy round island (6) 41 Chap takes turn to acquire colour (3) 42 Igloo yet affecting cause of disease (8)