Giant Crossword

Across

8 Something you could sing but don’t (7)

9 Not wishing to become a shooting

target! (6-3)

13 Pretend the pound note is coming

back (3,2)

14 Employed by the hotel I had left (5)

15 Offers the caretakers (7)

16 Is attracted by, yet attacks verbally (4,3) 17 Run to time, you find (5)

18 Cat that will jump on the piano (5)

20 The animal, making a row, started growling

inside (5)

22 ”They’re worth money,” the twit put in (6) 23 Powders in jars (6)

25 It will bring the rain one day shortly (7) 27 One or two, having had the meal, run off (7) 30 They produce straight lines of monarchs (6) 31 Approaching the Chinese firm first (6)

32 The expensive car registers (5)

35 Seem proud to be responsible for the holdup (5)

36 Need roughly about a day to get it

completed (5)

37 A little phone call from the hairdresser’s? (7) 39 The drunk’s dog? (7)

41 She set it in the heart of Granada (5)

42 Did he do some gardening on the day he

was knighted? (5)

43 An article by a make-up man would be in

order (5,4)

44 Glared at the boat that was in front (7)

Down

1 Pay for when you fix (6)

2 Move across to the referee standing by (8) 3 Treachery at the top? (4,7)

4 Do the king and queen attend? (4,5)

5 Are told to accommodate the girl (7)

6 Sea water or where it usually comes

from (4,6)

7 That’s the English for you! (4)

10 Slender and small, not weighing much (6) 11 Beef will go off; that’s the nuisance about

it (7)

12 Write “The animal is hiding in the trees” (6) 19 Serve badly in the game (7)

21 Cab – or its driver who got a bad tip (7) 24 A fast walk (6,5)

26 Delete from the incorrect chart

the scout is holding (7,3)

28 An eligible bachelor? No miss,

indeed (4,5)

29 Dad is wrong in showing

scorn (7)

30 A little more sultry, as a

consequence (6)

32 Reads swiftly through the

column and criticises it (4,4) 33 Is he fixing the hair of the

dog? (6)

34 The new version is a brightly

coloured float (7)

38 Goes off to get the sheets (6) 40 The girl from Redstone (4)