South Wales Echo

Giant Crossword

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Across

9 Omits to say one doesn’t garage it (6,3) 10 As a game it is, you allow, way-out (8) 12 The way to conceal a switch (4)

13 At half past, call a number (6)

14 Not an index of the famous (7) 15 Hallucinat­e the foamings and bubblings (3,6)

17 Stops repressing one’s annoyance, which is hazardous (9)

18 When in the money, an atonement (7) 20 What made you shift it back in? (6)

21 Try to ingratiate yourself with the shy little creature (4)

24 Put in the order agreed upon? (8) 26 Guarantee you ll fly off the handle and be mistrustfu­l about (8)

28 Lack the one edition that includes it (4) 29 Leaves are lumbered with the dynamite (6) 31 Relish the ‘Don’t be such a slowcoach!’ (7) 34 Take longer to tell than the others (9) 36 And possibly the wild grouse is a threat (9) 38 It’s cold, there’s a Santa all dressed up and entertainm­ent (7)

39 Though fast, was beaten (6)

40 The piece of paper is a cutting (4)

41 Are they seeing how many tokens there are? (8)

42 Finding time for, on being elected (7,2)

Down

1 Sure gets worried and in a flap when one gets angry (6,2)

2 Run to get by, somehow (6)

3 Once having resolved to turn one in, go ahead (8)

4 Deprives of all one’s investment­s (6)

5 Bit from a magnet broken by father (8) 6 Deliberate­d upon how it had capsized (6,4) 7 Fixing one’s hair and going down (7) 8 Can be relied upon to provide accommodat­ion (6)

11 Why the children are unruly at first (7) 16 It depends, you say, on the shed (6) 19 The sauce bottle (5)

20 Mother is upset and angry (3)

22 It starts habitually and ends with (5)

23 Put you out if you make noise (6) 25 The firemen called out will get lost (2,2,6)

26 Had been cut up (3) 27 Awfully nice cover for an operative (2,5)

30 If you couldn’t, you wouldn’t mind being slipshod (8) 31 What you find inside pleases you (8)

32 After parking beside one, don’t do anything yet (8) 33 Puckering up foolishly, grins fatuously (7)

35 Agree to catch up, showing sinew (6)

36 The quantity is the same and you add the herb to it (6) 37 Force to accommodat­e (6)

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