Giant Crossword

Across

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For the dog and myself, getting in food (4,4) Fine rain and a breeze (3)

Grab on to the thing and don’t move! (4,2) It’s not the trainer who’s the b..... scoundrel! (6)

Enlists the help of the person I work with (5,2) An aristocrat? He’s no better than you are! (4) Why the weather man’s looking so unhappy? (10)

I next get caught through being clumsy (8) Talk about American records (7)

Came up, we’re told, from the ranks (4) Reveal to be affectation at once (6) Show no sign (4,3,6,4)

Setting the alarm off about nothing is unprincipled (6)

A walk, or a spin (4)

The pal isn’t worried by the grievances (7) Mean he gets to the heart of, at last (2,3,3) Reckon, as before, you ll have to give further consideration to (5,5)

Just clear (4)

Tells you where children receive their instruction (7)

Calls, in our hearing, for wrenches (6) Meaning one’s totally absorbed by (6) Regard as a verbal agreement (3) Seems, when mixing the drink, one bungles it (6,2)

Down

Fat, is reducing (10)

Understand there’s a little switch (4) Withdraws ‘adversities’ (8)

Going on travelling by land (2,5) Scored very quickly (11)

Unable to use the slot machine – it’s always the same! (10)

When reversing, learners will do the wrong thing (4,2)

Are working in companies producing munitions (8)

‘Tree snake’ in French (5)

Rally for which there are about a hundred too many (7)

Extra upsetting to a lady (5)

Turning out to be straying, on the quiet (7) 23 25

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Humbly ask if you may hold an opposing view? (3,2,6) Used a microphone, having been convinced one should? (6,4)

Only in two words (7,3)

Lots of people have made quite a few singles (4,1,3)

You’re fond of sage? Me, too! (8) When you come out on top, certain to be charming (7) Hurt the cockney carrying the gun (6)

Time and again is in the enclosure (5)

An article or just a snippet in the news section (4)