Giant Crossword
Across
8 Drawing a box with a hole in it (7) 9 Creates an impact on, when one meets (5,4) 13 Parking in turn, as you drive off (5) 14 Make a getaway the time after, fast (5) 15 Forbear from, though it’s a bit of a strain (7) 16 Waiting for an overhaul (7)
17 How one gets the dirt on one’s shoes! (5) 18 He contends he knows something about boats (5)
20 Had pencilled in rain in the early morning (5)
22 The answer you gave the tax inspector (6) 23 Faithless? Don’t you believe it! (6)
25 Be afraid to pack the globe in it and don’t (7) 27 Many, I learn, ordered a soft drink (7) 30 While having the right to enter, though foreigners (6)
31 Connect with a number in that network (6) 32 Regard as something to have up your sleeve? (5)
35 Do some grooming again when in the coop (5) 36 Rip out almost all the face for her (5) 37 The clot is prepared to admit one to do some canvassing (7)
39 With ‘Tut, child!’ make’s one’s entrance (5,2) 41 Steal back and we hide in the arbour (5) 42 Hit the ball with spin (5)
43 What makes you ask questions about the collector’s item? (9)
44 Planning to import (7)
Down
1 Is mother by way of being a wet blanket? (6) 2 Horse that’s first back to its compartment (8) 3 Rest that leaves you full of beans? (6,5) 4 As usual, dressed as an army scout (9)
5 Is in a paper wrapper, they tell you (7) 6 What distinguished it from the other brushes? (10)
7 Up earlier than, to see the big tourist attraction (4)
10 Raised with difficulty, is thought the world of, we’re told (6)
11 Breaking step, I again go outside for a rest (7) 12 What the ‘in’ diners at the restaurant had? (6) 19 Are grounds for getting authorisation (7) 21 Poison in poured into the outer one (7) 24 What the cricketer called the blindfold? (11)
26 Cover that’s very easy to slip on (6,4)
28 At first, compliment on the quality (9)
29 Delights in all the exclamations of surprise about it (7)
30 View of the president a particular group holds (6) 32 Praise from the hard-boiled? (4,4) 33 Certainly not liking ‘The Day After The Earthquake’ (6) 34 And to assemble in the diningroom would be very silly (7) 38 Right through, count the customer (6)
40 She’s a stick-in-the-mud (4)