Giant Crossword
Across
9 Immediately, is in an awkward position (2,3,4) 10 With which the bout began or, to put it
otherwise, opened (5,3)
12 Don’t go – postpone it (4)
13 Goes to pieces when one gives the news
to? (6)
14 Waste food (7)
15 Packed ready to go off it means you’ll be back
soon (3,6)
17 Prayer gives the worried four new heart (3,6) 18 Fidgety as ever, it’s moving about (7)
20 All of a doodah holding the runaway: a
potential killer (6)
21 It’s a permit, miss (4)
24 Telling jokes, is very good (8)
26 “Only mousse of cod”, I put in, “and not very
good” (8)
28 Was sorry and, in turn, embarrassed about (4) 29 Make a big thing of and get very angry (4,2)
31 A cab and the dog angered by it? (7)
34 A deviation from the previous ways of taking
off? (9)
36 Stops when the holiday’s cancelled (6,3)
38 “The little two”: a clue for you! (7)
39 Stops to let me in, which changes things (6)
40 The person who misinformed you in the back
bar (4)
41 Only thing the hungry burglar was interested
in? (4,4)
42 Agreed on a cocktail that’s innocuous to
drink (9)
Down
1 Think “Drink!” when the son staggers in (8)
2 Hold on, there! That’s my boy friend! (6)
3 Tear up agitatedly again after opening (8)
4 Notes the great effort (6)
5 The car swerves, there’s a yell and you lose
consciousness (5,3)
6 Propose to adjust the clock that’s losing
time (3,7)
7 The officer is driven mad by the silly “40” (7)
8 Some of the music from “Kidnap”? (6)
11 A gun turret? (3-4)
16 Show I even scribbled a note to pop in (6)
19 His name is fabricated! (5)
20 Trail the convict (3)
22 Her days are numbered (5)
23 Gloomy, getting the key to the rooms let out (6) 25 What the rep wants the customer
to say? I believe you! (3,3,4)
26 Hair of the dog, knocked back! (3) 27 Take out and stick in a purplish
cover (7)
30 A question always put to, if time is
of no consequence (8)
31 Someone who’ll watch over, for a
charge (8)
32 Spoken of as “The arbiter who
slipped up” (8)
33 The clergy member before; the
previous one (7)
35 Fruit crops (6)
36 To hide the hole well, I weave all
round it (3,3)
37 Herb is on about some place in
Latvia (6)