Giant Crossword

Across

9 One went into show business many, many years ago (5,3)

10 Overheard the figure (3)

11 Show it’s duck meat (6)

12 Try to get sun and plenty of it (6)

13 Give one a posting to headquarters (7)

14 For wood, it’s a bargain! (4)

15 Enquired into, when one left the hotel (7,3)

17 Does it have a lot to learn about being a pest? (8)

18 Gives one the job of getting the particulars? (7)

19 She’s a c-cat! (4)

21 The jacket with the label going to a Dr Turner (6)

24 Seizing the opportunity for imposing on one’s good nature (6,9,2)

27 If you say it’s pretty, will it snap back ‘Phooey’? (6)

29 Get cheques in the post? (4)

30 Wonderful workers in a bottling factory? (7)

33 Sticking together, which is understandable (8)

35 What you were baking when the oven fused? (10)

36 Prompt the star (4)

37 Made out the sow had been let loose in the fields (7)

38 Saves from the mobs, it is stated (6)

40 Trees not found in the mountains, we’re told (6)

41 You know him (3)

42 Says it isn’t on, anyhow, to me (8)

Down

1 The fondness you have for someone you’re stuck on? (10)

2 A cheap cut? (4)

3 The last thing said is ‘We’re tumbling in an avalanche’ (8)

4 Writes back first from a boarding house (7)

5 Calling on, for the next bout (6,5)

6 Do patients, mending, love one being brought in by visitors? (10)

7 Asked to make an offer for the home (6)

8 A shopkeeper with whom no secret is safe? (8)

10 Land upright and turn (5)

16 A ‘22’ and a really good one (7)

20 Brought back, for the clergyman, one pound of meat (5) 22 Somebody snapping the rough sea? (7)

23 Leaves tyre marks behind as one heads towards? (5,6)

25 The bottom ones earn her the greatest income (10)

26 Sending on to be used as a shield? (10)

28 The highest of the high, in particular (5,3)

31 Had done better than the other stars? (8)

32 Tot taking an ice-cream out to eat (7)

34 Am first changing the finale (6)

35 Canoodle in the wood (5)

39 To help, brought round a cold tart (4)