Giant Crossword
Across 9 Doesn’t include, there being pages missing (6,3) 10 Particularly for the highest of the high (5,3) 12 Turn to observe, or take a look (4) 13 Mum will pose holding the boy (6) 14 Stand firm the old ring was found in the shed (4,3) 15 Assuming that’s what the green is for (7,2) 17 Understands and has the safety devices in action (7,2) 18 Knock lazily but fast (7) 20 Intervene and set out to fix (4,2) 21 Think it’s catcalls you hear (4) 24 Besides it’s higher, as the foreigner said (8) 26 Going in for raising (6,2) 28 Go round to get the music (4) 29 Do the wrong thing in reverting to form, perhaps (4,2) 31 Shuts up and gets down to it (7) 34 Should it come to pass, will accept the position (4,5) 36 Uses the microphone, when one persuades to (5,4) 38 Urge son, perhaps, to get a job in the theatre (7) 39 Taking a few months to get well (6) 40 Is there a lot of it at the carpenter’s? (4) 41 Hands over the ticket one’s forged (6,2) 42 Decolonises, which is disturbing (9) Down 1 Landing strip from which it’s impossible to take off (7) 2 A safeguard against pirates: that’s clear (6) 3 How the driller described his work? (8) 4 Sprinkled on the bottom of the nest the wren built (6) 5 “A bit soft in the head,” object to (8) 6 Have the desired effect when you perform the magic act (2,3,5) 7 Question why terribly late coming in - and loaded (7) 8 Thrives, as will many in good economic periods (6) 11 Returning home mad and astonished by (7) 16 Certainly at home there will be something to do (6) 19 Demonstrate, when the page gets turned over (5) 20 The gentleman who cut father short (3) 22 Have the U in USA large, as is customary (5) 23 Is critical of the cuffs (6) 25 She had Elvis slain, playing the wicked lady (10) 26 Cover the cooking-vessel up (3) 27 It’s for the examination of beef (7) 30 Sounding the bell, as it’s urgent (8) 31 Being a foreigner, having a job to get into the base (8) 32 A little reduced, though it’s anything but shop-soiled (8) 33 Papa, see somehow if you can mollify (7) 35 The Asian was all right, standing near when it exploded (6) 36 Find, when you amplify (4,2) 37 Does being jabbed in the eye irritate it? (6)