Giant Crossword
Across
9 You can’t say fairer than that! (3,6) 10 Coming with us on our travels and that’s a certainty (2,3,3) 12 Material for the grass skirt? (4) 13 Hissing but making no move (6) 14 Shine at midnight? Rubbish! (7) 15 The fish, in turn, she had prepared for serving (9) 17 Only a slight possibility – it would be rotten luck (3,6) 18 Catches on as one falls (7) 20 Stick together or split up (6) 21 The old man at first got along all right (4) 24 Put into order, as agreed beforehand (8) 26 Flag showing a flower (8) 28 A lot of banknotes, possibly Swiss (4) 29 See the future as just wonderful (6) 31 Show me a spike has pierced it! (7) 34 Had met outside, though, I reckoned (9) 36 Can one saw and sew it? (9) 38 Insist you take the child round to see someone at the hospital (7) 39 Grounds for release from the lunatic asylum (6) 40 Is it not bad, as exhibitions go? (4) 41 First in line, which does make one unhappy (8) 42 Earning, on arriving (7,2)
Down
1 Does it ensure that a room is cool and bright? (8) 2 He reveals there will be rain (6) 3 Grabs at and she’s caught: can’t run (8) 4 Set out in the shade, had a snooze (6) 5 Unfasten, to expose (8) 6 Illness you appear to recover from (5,5) 7 When you pull the blinds down, it’s bliss! (7) 8 Shut up! The fellow has a gun! (6) 11 On good terms with, when the weekend begins (7) 16 Definitely a silly combination (3,3) 19 The lesson to be learned from many a test (5) 20 Serving up the same cold fish (3) 22 About dope rings, knowing little, as yet (5) 23 Put string on a badly torn container (6) 25 Assuming the name of, when the business is flopping (5,5) 26 Understand, from the sound of the note (3) 27 There’s potential, you guarantee (7) 30 Resent, unfairly, that it holds your attention (8) 31 Manly? Silly rot! Inside, is oldwomanish (8) 32 Putting up with the nude cavorting round (8) 33 For most volatile men, within instants (7) 35 Having outrun, hole up outside in the vegetable garden (6) 36 Quick to become irritable (6) 37 Some ingredient for the duck on top of the cooker (6)