28 GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
9 10 12
13
14 15 17
18 20
21 24
26 28 29
31 34
36
38 39
40
41 42
Deficit the firm can't carry? (5,4) He deserves to succeed (4,4) Weapon a cavalryman will know how to handle? (4) Introducing me to Dean, make me look small (6)
Dressed and waiting for you (5,2) Choose, from the bachelors? (6,3) Having quickly seen a label, open it up (2,1,6)
What the laundress who took up golf called a wood? (7)
"He's trying to sell a phony pearl," the daughter put in (6)
Fish will do for me! (4)
More surprising in someone not from these parts (8)
Carte blanche the off-duty employee has? (4,4) Recognises, we're told, from part of the Identikit (4)
He shoots at the bird Ð a redstart (6)
Rectify when you change gear (7) The slight possibility of being away from work? (3,6)
A place that hasn't come to the fore as a seaside resort? (9) Gracious! The pan is warm! (7) Attitude the ancestors started out with (6)
Portray as the person the spectators are coming to see (4) A less peculiar fellow: a rep (8) Are peeved when you escort a girl to (4,5)
DOWN
1 2 3 4
5 6
7 8 11 16
19 20 22 23
25
26 27
30 31
32 33 35 36 37
What the evangelist who arrives at the hotel hopes to do? (6,2) Cheat everybody into, as you go from door to door (4,2) Humiliation it is for a rider to take a toss? (8)
An aroma that's pronounced, you agree (6)
Support for the paper (8) Quite realising you can't squeeze another thing in? (5,5)
Said drunkenly one had a haircut (7)
The bird did fly inside to get under cover (6)
Seems dad has turned against fruit (7)
A partially coiled rope is found inside (6)
Dough re me? (5)
The usual knock-up (3)
So he took the nice one out (5) Become visible now, in the gloom (6)
Have a meal, dining out, and a drink (3,3,4)
Because it's in place of (3) Valid if you're a member of the police (2,5)
Urging one, as it's high-priority (8) What you're nibbling on as you put the baby to sleep? (4,4) Ill-tempered, nagging and mousy? (8)
Not free to take Diane off to church (7)
Wouldn't allow "26 Down" to take off (6)
Speaks proudly about the small craft (6)
Something edible found in a container in the rubbish dump (6)
SOLUTIONS FROM LAST WEEK
ACROSS: 9, Like-wise 10, C-a-r 11, Tip-pet 12, T-rip up 13, Press-up 14, Evil (rev) 15, Bad manners 17, Step down 18, Fifteen 19, Post 21, O-Rd-ers 24, Giving oneself airs 27, B-asset 29, Draw (rev) 30, Amnesia 33, Dog tired 35, Grass snake 36, S-top 37, St-rains 38, Accept 40, Mode-R-n 41, See (C) 42, Called on. DOWN: 1, Lip-reading 2, Keep (rev) 3, Sixpence 4, Tem-p-les 5, Irish setter 6, Stopped off 7, Spread 8, Re-viewer 10, Chess 16, Mo-ti-ves 20, O-mega 22, Drive on 23, Good address 25, Not present 26, Stick up for 28, AD-option 31, MissAble 32, Ran-sack 34, Tapped 35, Guise (guys) 39, C-hew.