Giant Crossword

Across

9 The least little job makes the workers sour (5,4) 10 Pleasant and willing (9) 12 Is it fun for it getting up early? (4) 13 Best be off to get bread and to stretch my legs (6) 14 Case packed, is ready for breakfast (7) 15 Attended to in hospital again, having left the war zone (9) 17 Now and again comes back as compere (9) 18 It’s cold, father – ice in the crack (7) 19 Mean it’s not, indeed, left unfinished (6) 20 Little terror of a cricketer bagging a run (4) 23 Given to the new lad to carry, you find (9) 25 Made out to have been forced to leave (9) 26 Do they tell the dairy farmer bad weather is approaching? (4) 27 Catch on, from the sound (6) 29 Can get through to us from the zoo (7) 32 Is useless at brainstorming sessions, but doesn’t realise it (3,2,4) 34 He’s competing against, in something to do with money (9) 35 Was he surprised by his pistol’s going off? (7) 36 News just come through on the pupil taking an exam (6) 37 Crack shot (4) 38 And more worried when mother gets hold of the notes (9) 39 Kid in a foreign country with a bouquet (9)

Down

1 Smart role-casting in ‘Peppery’ (8) 2 As a rule, is it spoken? (9,3) 3 On the film credits, what the undernamed provided? (8) 4 Many, indeed, that have remained secret (6) 5 Great excitement when the pail’s poured in the can (8) 6 Brochure for a potential buyer – American (10) 7 Went on to add a grass border (7) 8 Went out on the town with the famous (10) 11 That’s a blow, darn it! (5) 16 For a quarter to five, arranged a cine show (6) 19 Served up, too (3) 21 Start your day as a shoeblack? (4,3,5) 22 Very small and twinkling (6) 23 And yet indistinguishable one from the other (3,3,4) 24 Fulminating against the below in an article (10) 25 Note, you say, it’s a female (3) 28 The entire contents of the packet? (8) 29 The foreign aunt is in trouble (8) 30 Broke and was bound up (8) 31 Notices they re not using the fax machines (7) 33 Climb up getting, at one point, quite hot (5) 34 Leave no money to – a blow all round (3,3)