The BIG crossword

ACROSS

9 Listen to the Scandinavian and learn about translating (4,2,3) 10 How sick one is of having to be exuberant? (8)

12 From the biting cold, help to protect (4)

13 The language, when it’s nonvegetarian food! (6)

14 Filling a vacancy in the clothing department (7)

15 The best part was getting the big score (4,5) 17 Mischievousness you wouldn’t expect from the little angel? (9) 18 Stylish and showy when running (7)

20 A Sicilian small town kid going to America (6)

21 Not the whole catch is thrown back (4)

24 Convinced one it had been clinched (4,4)

26 To cap it, when rewritten the content is really awful (8) 28 Eighteen letters back from “table” (4)

29 Suppress for a time the files assembled about it (6) 31 Steed is the chap making out the invoices (7)

34 Poster showing a shopkeeper (9) 36 Prudence has the ability to see into the picture (9) 38 Thinking of making yourself a hot drink? (7)

39 He’s right beside the tree (6) 40 Take in, with the dessert (4) 41 Dash round to get the car (8) 42 What the nudist who’s not at all busy has? (7,2)

DOWN

2 Being inclined to remove the top and bottom (6)

3 Getting to be, with the advent of (8)

4 Smart, which is auspicious (6) 5 One’s best pen friend? (8) 6 Called with the money? (4,1,5) 7 Surprise by getting the old right in! (7)

8 For the food, I lay out (6)

11 Is it written in stone that demagogues must? (7)

16 With companion, I again occupy the apartment (6)

19 Give a little jerk when you switch on (5)

20 Wish you hadn’t got it at the herbalist’s? (3)

22 In flight, is looking out at it frightening? (5)

23 Gives back to the salesman, say, when faulty (6)

25 As far as “a dud on evil bent” (2,2,2,4)

26 Is it easy to give up if you’re slimming? (3)

27 Having taken power will continue, you suppose (7)

30 Because it’s followed by a shootout, indeed (8)

31 Punishes, but not for wrongs? (8) 32 How good the yarn was you found perturbing? (8)

33 The smallest note – a fifty (7) 35 Doing everything possible to have no blacklegs (3,3)

36 A fellow diner-out: someone pleasant to be with (6)

37 In the ravine, find the English man (6)