The BIG crossword

ACROSS

9 Ram home (5,3)

10 A light note (3)

11 Make it possible to produce a bean with little top and tail (6) 12 Takes cocaine and exhales (6) 13 Come out and call back at a quarter past (7)

14 Don’t stand up to pressure, you grant (4)

15 Don’t bother to take a holiday on one’s own (5,5)

17 Made it clear the wheel had a part missing (5,3)

18 Rang – that’s the whole point – did ring (7)

19 Backing strikes you fight (4) 21 She’s very tall – a fabulous woman! (6)

24 Being brave in weeding out something troublesome? (8,3,6) 27 Plied with a lot to drink, gives back the gun (6)

29 Rear a deer (4)

30 “The treatment,” they say crossly, “is included” (7)

33 Vessel the companion had boarded earlier (8)

35 The re-opening is a revelation (10) 36 A fortune? The sauce! (4)

37 Get to greet the guests (7)

38 A great big metal bar? (6) 40 Again think you can restore yourself to favour (6)

41 See it sounds like a vote in your favour (3)

42 Tell you how much time you’ve got? (8)

DOWN

1 The yelling from below, object about (10)

2 Take it – it’s a soft toy (4) 3 Renegade having a spot, perhaps, to eat, out (8)

4 Even prepared to cut and wrap it up in (7)

5 Mismatched, as the patients in the ward are? (3-8)

6 Until now, therefore, playing a round in (10)

7 A complication to contend with (6)

8 Prefers to incorporate a number of tastes (8)

10 Having a share in? You bet! (5) 16 Brave figure: a Latin revolutionary (7) 20 Assumed to be standing down (3,2)

22 Yields and comes back (7)

23 A trendy individual, as is typical (2,9)

25 A tot, for instance, or the mum or dad (10)

26 Feel it’s what the greenhorn lacks (10)

28 Apt to be banked (8)

31 Very keen, though it’s torment, having a flair for (8) 32 Because, per se, it means “to defame” (7)

34 Beginning with the passé group (6)

35 Hit the ball with vim and vigour (5) 39 Satisfy – only just (4)