Giant Crossword

Across

9 An irritating reminder of past misdemeanours (4,5)

10 Even without exception, old-fashioned in their views (3,6)

12 Go off with a table (4)

13 Running away to sea (6)

14 For the conveyance of goods, trains run to time (7)

15 Handcraft? (4,5)

17 Have hallucinations of bubblings and boilings? (3,6)

18 They’re refuse collectors, they add (7)

19 A male I mistake for a female (6)

20 Deliver without charge (4)

23 Don’t understand why you don’t grant interviews (4,2,3)

25 Called for calm (9)

26 Thought to be perfect, though reduced by a pound (4)

27 Mark has two keys, though they’re in short supply (6)

29 Is a collector, one understands (7)

32 Was involved in and worried about (9)

34 Why the DIY enthusiast was reading on the beach? (9)

35 Turn in the history books (7)

36 Continue to view, or to think of as (4,2)

37 Blue fluff (4)

38 A proviso as regards the physical fitness (9)

39 Triumphed over evil, Padre Turner did (9)

Down

1 Bob will show you the quick way (5,3) 2 Fighting in a beer hall? (6,6)

3 Breaks up when one removes the hoop? (8)

4 ”Industrial action” does ring a bell (6)

5 Points to the big S in “gifts” (8)

6 A refutation issued from home? (4,6)

7 Like the over-the-top fruit the drink was made from? (7)

8 The date she had worked out from the skull (6-4)

11 Hear he abandoned the child and that’s a crime (5)

16 In that case mum has the heat switched on (6) 19 Possibly a diamond expert (3)

21 How the treatment is working if the patient

feels quite ill? (6,6)

22 Continued and prevented one from going to bed (4,2)

23 Likelihood there is that things will be above board? (4,6)

24 A change of underwear for the cricketer (4,6)

25 Rod and line, you say (3)

28 Suggesting the welfare money goes in rent (8)

29 Having defected, is examined by (4,4)

30 Strain to convey one’s admiration to (8)

31 Standing one a beer outside “The Orb and Sceptre”? (7)

33 Turned out to be a fine material (5)

34 Having the mixture too wet is careless (6)