Giant Crossword
Across
9 Given a push to get started, left (6,3) 10 Show the vessel to me that I am to go in (9) 12 And one is heartless with the girl (4) 13 Don’t leave me shivering in the water (6) 14 Having left before you depart (7)
15 A fan and he’s holding something up (9) 17 Possibly meant to think going in will create a diversion (9)
18 For foreigners, the usual answer (7)
19 The bird did fly in to get under cover (6) 20 The egg the female is protecting is one of a pair (4)
23 Expenses incurred once you leave your front door? (9)
25 Should have followed them out,
I reckoned (9)
26 Figure the poem is some kind of secret message (4)
27 He waves the wand about again (6) 29 Charges, having caught us, but the case is thrown out (7)
32 Blasted freezing! (9)
34 Leaving for something new (9)
35 It’s anything but fair play! (7)
36 Was turning to look at something in the playground (6)
37 With an English mother, is of Dutch origin (4) 38 Going to put them with an egg into the oven to cook (2,3,4)
39 Lose an opportunity, say, through bad luck (9)
Down
1 The two twits got in a hit man (8) 2 Working only for money (4,8)
3 They’re in the store wrapped up ready for fans to buy (8)
4 A loud ‘Show business’ (6)
5 The foreigner put the water drain the wrong way round (8)
6 Means it’s something to play (10)
7 As to changing colour on the outside when cooked (7)
8 Sent me to fill the breach, creating bitterness (10)
11 That is to slot the name into, silly! (5) 16 In other words, turn the table on the speaker (6)
19 Partakes of, when one is forced to (3) 21 Grandiloquent way of describing the soprano voice (4-8)
22 Do take the dog to go along with you (6)
23 The tenant’s job? (10) 24 Literally true (3-7)
25 The women started to cut back (3)
28 Indicate by your expression when you enter (8) 29 Commendation a US fruit is about to get (8)
30 The one set in the ship is more erotic (8)
31 Led the old female inside (7) 33 Send back right on time (5)
34 In a daze read out, with an exclamation of surprise (6)