Giant Crossword

Across

9 He’s not wrong to shoot without further ado (2,3,4)

10 If not, I swore to release the captive (9) 12 The very best place for retirement (4) 13 About to get drinks for everyone (6)

14 A loud ‘Not just an amusement park’ (7) 15 Angry, bring the new list in (9)

17 Quiet when the English lesson is in progress outside (9)

18 Hires someone who is promising? (7) 19 Either pickled or cooked (6)

20 Moor, you say – a foreigner (4) 23 Fielder taking a little break (5,4)

25 Many Italians could be Spanish (9)

26 It’s not turning the key that made the sound (4)

27 Complained that Monsieur had done a lift (6) 29 Excited, got all mixed up (7) 32 Dismissed, as it resulted (6,3) 34 Acquires and takes round the tea bags (9) 35 Prepared to –y the sick in (7)

36 In the money – an American member of the family (6)

37 Said it’s the entire space (4)

38 Laughs at, it’s clear, the clues I make up (9) 39 The jewellery and carved belts, run in to get (9)

Down

1 A light wine, adequate for what’s required of it (8)

2 Resigning and going to a lower walk of life? (8,4)

3 Attacks the badly-run pub, –rstly: castigates it (8)

4 Had called at half past and mended the racket (6)

5 To put it brie–y, the shape the homes are in (8)

6 An inability to keep still that betokens dishonesty? (10)

7 I do concede it was given to (7) 8 What made the –nancier so gloomy? (10) 11 Furious, I rebuke (5)

16 Are they worn by drunks? (6)

19 Would be a fool to weaken (3)

21 For the ebbing waves, is it the turn of the tide? (4,8) 22 Search about in, for polish (6) 23 What the TV repairer gets, when he tackles jobs? (4,2,4) 24 Completely hot, will melt, more or less (10)

25 Left in the chilled –sh (3) 28 Prepared to make a scene about the wallet (8)

29 Being, despite everything, almost sure, the girl and boy follow (8)

30 Create a draught that you could do without? (8)

31 Set up a trap you long to attract with (7)

33 Decreed it should be under the dominion of (5)

34 Sounds like fruit, to the ear (6)