Giant Crossword

Across

9 Make no move - to return the picture? (4,5) 10 Feeling less anxious, took over from (8) 12 Will rain heavily? Blow! (4)

13 Sheet music and records (6)

14 The pieces are cut to fit right inside with exactitude (7)

15 Dance deliriously round the room when it’s called off (9)

17 Picking up and driving the new car (7,2) 18 He was the first one on to take a look around (7)

20 Simple Simon’s pet? (3-3)

21 Rent to again (4)

24 Let out the deer to wander round the fields (8) 26 Had happened to stumble and been caught by (8)

28 It’s a gem from the orb, buddy (4) 29 Agree it sounds like various notes (6) 31 Roll the egg inside for the bird (7)

34 Take a good look at your posture, girl (9) 36 So unless the daughter is in, it will be quiet (9) 38 Refuse the tripe (7)

39 A great opening for a boxer (6)

40 At the hospital with a gun wound, perhaps (4) 41 Puts on a new coat; the fabric satin, unusually (8)

42 Understands there’s a snag and one’s worried (7,2)

Down

1 What the bonehead was wearing? (8) 2 Try to talk out of - with justification (6) 3 Advertisement that comes in the form of a disc? (8)

4 Looked angry, though pleased about being admitted (6)

5 Keep quiet and set it aside (8) 6 Leaving via the ramp? (7,3)

7 He has his own ideas about making the rice pudding (7)

8 Witnessing when escorting to (6)

11 Plan to turn left but don’t follow any set course (7)

16 Time to get together with one another (6) 19 Letter requiring that the ring with a precious stone be returned (5)

20 The Home Guard (3)

22 By about the middle of the forties, it was obvious (5) 23 The doctor got caught in a landslide, the nut! (6)

25 Not much time to give to the old (6-4)

26 Crack up, though it’s very poor (3) 27 Are about business (7)

30 On the subject of actors, is dull (8) 31 Allowed to, in the course of the game (8)

32 Continuing to think back when you circle round (8) 33 Though the coat is ridiculously large, putting up with it (7)

35 In a band that’s running amok, be caught (6)

36 Try to grasp, but it’s a bit of a strain (6)

37 Pass by or else pop back in (6)