Giant Crossword
Across
9 Can’t possibly go in to order, pet: I have very little money (8)
10 Admit it’s personal (3)
11 Find out the lake is covered in ice - it must be broken (6)
12 Tell you to back the favourite:
‘Lady’s Wear’ (6)
13 ‘A duck’, I croon, ‘swimming on a river’ (7) 14 Charge the boy in possession of the ring (4) 15 Disappointed the fellow has become enamoured of (10)
17 A job you’ll enjoy? Well done! (4,4) 18 Tidied up, having been told to (7)
19 She turned me against the master (4) 21 Has found out, you know, and is perturbed (6) 24 Strains to identify the country (3,8,6) 27 Says there’s a setback, by the way (6) 29 The fare for a dog (4)
30 Allows it to be engulfed by the waves (7) 33 It means I’m going to be successful (8) 35 They claim they’re competitors (10) 36 When I get to ‘a large part of the world’ (4) 37 Are called in to make preparations (7) 38 Point the moral out, as usual (6)
40 In disguise, slip round to get the gun (6) 41 Really good for one! (3)
42 Can get fed up and a bit upset during the auction (8)
Down
1 When you will again decide not to leave (10) 2 Arrest and get the trophies back (4) 3 Begin, that is, to frame the restored Titian (8) 4 Shrinks back when I move closer to embrace (7)
5 There’s no telling if things are! (11) 6 Enjoys and uses as a venue for the celebration? (8,2)
7 Golly! I’ll hide in the wood! (6)
8 Upset your digestive system, though you say it’s not so (8)
10 Head gardeners grow it (5)
16 Here to act as compere (7)
20 The chap shot something to eat (5)
22 Am put in the shade - terribly abashed (7) 23 Does it make rings round the other cutters? (8,3) 25 Responsible for its not being too difficult, as riddles go? (10) 26 How inheriting a textile business would benefit you? (10) 28 Send Martin’s off on time (8) 31 Yet possibly intertwined in it for ever (8)
32 The sentinel hasn’t finished patrolling? That’s great (7) 34 Extorts from, when caught in a taxes fiddle (6)
35 Beat hollow, through exhibiting craft (5)
39 The horse trotted round inside (4)