CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Big lads from 10Ac need John about to get last of vodka ( 3,3,3)
7 Not quite attached to workers’ federation ( 1,1,1,1)
8 Blades come in handy in rows ( 4)
10 Two- dimensional folk from 42Ac 30Ac flat ( 3,6)
11 Binders holding minutes in which they may be marked off ( 5)
13 Indian title as result of a Hibs upset ( 5)
16 Unenthusiastic heart in our group ( 2)
17 Icarus losing his head flying around stormcloud ( 5)
19 West Lothian side just short of furious ( 4)
20 Newsgatherers interrupting eyewitnesses ( 3)
23/ 38 Smallest of 10Ac heading for trouble before Bahrein revolution ( 3,5)
25 Lass from 10Ac heading off stampeding big game ( 6)
27 One of 10Ac reversing motor into garden ( 6)
28 Eldest of 10Ac rang about pad ( 7)
29 Lass from 10Ac, Scandinavian, hanging around public house entrances ( 6)
30 See 42
32 Disreputable sort – Conservative, notice! ( 3)
34 Empty rhetoric leads to a pruning of Royal College of Art ( 3)
35 Promise daughter argument is over ( 4)
38 See 23
39 Resume three 35s in Rome ( 2)
40 Angered having abandoned resistance and left exposed ( 5)
42/ 30 Leg broken from tree in best row of houses ( 5,6)
44 Stake in plan starts to accumulate with couple of 10Ac ( 3,3,3)
45 One or another of 10Ac lads triumph following final attempt ( 4)
46 Wild cat reportedly on golf course ( 4)
47 Adapted, after a fashion, with cushion covers, yet tripped on wooden floor ( 3- 6)
MACBETH DOWN
1 Danish people project extreme emotions ( 5)
2 Exclamations from 10Ac when left from Katrine and Maree? ( 4)
3 On one’s guard about Black Prince ( 6)
4 Died, being given unpredictable parachute ( 6)
5 Long 11Ac, or 10Ac without broth ( 4)
6 Nosy rocket scientists heading for launch ( 5)
7 Perhaps take on moguls on the way down ( 3)
9 Influential types backing unscrupulous trader ( 4)
11 Reduces devastating windstorm ( 5,4)
12 A hideous pong found in fog by Scottish explorer ( 5,4)
14 Bad hair event got too personal ( 3,1,5)
15 Having two teeth, Trump’s nemesis feasted, swallowing central Montana ( 9)
18 Madras curry hot enough? Not niggling any Indian leaders ( 7)
21 Thanks to retail centres ( 2)
22 Indications that it’s good to admit to bad deeds ( 5)
24 By what method leaders of the House go after Dublin Bay peninsula ( 5)
26 Once regularly sampled Perrier ( 3)
27 Possesses maidens heart and soul ( 3)
31 European Commission starts to examine Cameron ( 2)
32 Article in paper is a malicious rumour ( 6)
33 Dramatist and poet’s humorously sarcastic study ( 6)
36 Shoreline not the first to get drier ( 4)
37 Measured how long it took to get up and abdicate ( 5)
39 Heartless council leaders of Wales yesterday downgraded old county ( 5)
41 Eurovision winner in a new commercial coming up ( 4)
42 In recession bell rang now and then for strong air force ( 4)
43 Slug package ( 3)