The BIG crossword
ACROSS
9 Kept quiet and booked (9) 10 Favouring the proposal to have an advertising campaign (9) 12 For the trip in, about one day (4) 13 Make no move to anaesthetise (6) 14 Shudder at having to compete with the awful child in it (7)
15 The delight you feel when you see your bus coming? (9)
17 Don’t forget to pick it up again (9) 18 Reckoned it means “with a pattern” (7)
19 Rule on, when carrying the raid out (6)
20 Shot back, mad (4)
23 Sea fruit? (4,5)
25 A pebble on the beach? (9) 26 Make the acquaintance of and be full of, on return (4) 27 Recommend that you should tell (6)
29 A temp in some hole-in-the-wall job? (4-3)
32 Thinks up possible reasons for the zero increments? (9) 34 Nonsense! Go in to hector the demonstrator (9)
35 Going through the list, I really enjoy myself (7)
36 One son, Nigel: he’s most peculiar (6)
37 Hadn’t paid for the round we had (4)
38 About the meal out, say it’s an impasse (9)
39 To do with the origins of the money (9)
DOWN
1 Running through it, if first given a drink (8)
2 Means of communicating with the next world? (4,8)
3 Charge too much (8) 4 Coming a day before the opening (6)
5 Editor on a paper that folded, it seemed (8)
6 A certainty that the defendant will be found guilty? (10)
7 It doesn’t have a bull ring! (7) 8 Like a first-class, though useless, gong (10)
11 The leg that is held up in the picture (5)
16 Are crying out for a sun salve (6) 19 Person you first have to reckon with (3)
21 Believed on both occasions one hadn’t acted rashly (7,5)
22 Has been running round again on the beach (6)
23 Get as far as “The others land” (4,2,4)
24 He’s left his car behind. There’s nothing unusual in that (10) 25 Get me to meet with, face to face (3)
28 Was emphatic that the side isn’t to be beaten (8)
29 Looking very clean, if you’re not quite so hawk-eyed (8)
30 Is taking part in the procession – absolute heaven! (8)
31 Said in the letter the bird, a tit, had flown in (7)
33 I land up covering for her (5) 34 Where there’s food, an insect will nose about (6)