Giant Crossword
Across
9 Too tired-looking and in debt (9) 10 Incurring a bill for the making of, fast (9) 12 Understand there’s to be no declaration (4) 13 Grants the maid’s free time is included in it (6) 14 Aggressive when it’s back in the burrow (7) 15 You’ll need it for the roast - and turn the veg on, dear (4,5) 17 He brings news of chaos at the Green Rally (9) 18 He got into a terrible state in China, for instance (3,4) 19 Plot to strike and create pandemonium (6) 20 Proposal I accepted in ‘33’ (4) 23 Does it think it makes cycling at night safer? (9) 25 Looking sad, is telling misery to go away (9) 26 First a thumbs down then a thumbs up, from the corner (4) 27 Masses of cold stewed plums (6) 29 Ever so strange article from abroad (7) 32 Having seats outside mean not being together (9) 34 Leaves one with no filthy lucre? (6,3) 35 He has a big head with a small hat to cover it (7) 36 Only taking exercise in it in front of everybody! (6) 37 Like a sap, tease (4) 38 Learn differently about the Scandinavian when you listen (4,2,3) 39 Attended to the broken limb, though drunk (9)
Down
1 Reading material unpacked, leaves the hotel (5,3) 2 Become uninhibited and no longer bother about personal appearance (3,7,2) 3 And so, in the shack, makes the distribution (5,3) 4 From teatime, in dire need of something to eat (6) 5 Supposed to have gone on to the piano (8) 6 Keeping cool when surpassed by (2,3,5) 7 A good one will give the better value for money (7) 8 Looks for the exotic canape with the fruit filling (10) 11 Off - or working (5) 16 Wine, Robert? (6) 19 Except for some notes of music (3) 21 Is anticipating, as one tries to find where the patient is (5,7) 22 Give me a home on the outskirts that’s humble (6) 23 Reminds that one wishes to gain admission (5,1,4) 24 Get down to business in a powwow with a foreign country (4,6) 25 Had been cut up (3) 28 Cod I ordered that’s only about second-rate (8) 29 Change too much (8) 30 It just shows what the high-ups get up to! (8) 31 The tool the fellow took up: a rake (4,3) 33 Clear but not easy on the eye (5) 34 Most unpleasant people, sneaks (6)