Giant Crossword

Across

9 Still applies if the grip’s O.K. (5,4) 10 Worried, agrees to put in an addendum, as one forecasts (8)

12 The gentleman and I brought her back (4) 13 See turning in the gun that was misappropriated (6)

14 The small, older one on the inside is in the army (7)

15 Noticing the traffic has been stopped, cross (6,3)

17 Shouted to the daughter held captive below (9)

18 What is forcing the rain through the shades? (7)

20 Lash out when you get luck as a prospector (6)

21 Bearing with the people I admitted (4) 24 Compensating for, by toadying to (6,2) 26 The guard has been posted: Neil Turner (8) 28 Was less low, due to the wine (4) 29 Stopped it’s use in the home (6) 31 Shouts and storms (7)

34 Unhappy, urge into action (9)

36 Kept guard at the window while one searched for (6,3)

38 Heading is: ‘Top player gets into Trouble’ (7) 39 Deny once having carried a gun (6)

40 Are reps and a disappointment (4) 41 Inaccuracies, I bet, in the writing (8) 42 Moderates but doesn’t, perhaps, admit to (5,4)

Down

1 Do you sever all links with it? (5,3)

2 A spot, you say, of food (6)

3 Twists and the cotton’s snarled: caught right inside (8)

4 Confused, put another pound in (6)

5 Miss the ride the rest went off on (8) 6 Start eagerly but find you can go no further (3,5,2)

7 There are songs, now, and dances about (7) 8 With weight, he disputes it (6) 11 Standing about and outdoing when it comes to eating (7)

16 The twin went off with it, the dope! (6) 19 Gather it’s an admission that one is a fool (5) 20 It doesn’t weaken the tree (3)

22 Just what I need! Lunchtime traffic (5)

23 A small tick (6)

25 Why the charmer’s secrets were secrets no more? (5,5) 26 Reported I had got in, in need of a lift (3)

27 Make for the gun in the coloured holster (7)

30 The foreigners sue the interned Scandinavians (8) 31 Photographing the execution (8) 32 Determining, on meeting (8) 33 Fights to get the breaks one’s put in for (7)

35 Nip back, love, to get the material (6)

36 Comes upon unexpectedly when one lands (6)

37 Without the other, has gone off to somewhere in the U.S. (6)