Giant Crossword
Across
9 From now on I shall have true fun, gadding about (2,6) 10 The deposit is equally hard to get (3) 11 Confesses now, badly affected by the drink (4,2) 12 Afraid the man would back the car in (6) 13 It takes courage to dig in to whatever we’re eating! (3,4) 14 What tells you the patient is not an out-patient? (4) 15 Giving a lift aboard or not stopping (8,2) 17 Tried, when one lunged at with the knife (3,1,4) 18 A ghost turns the key and he’s captive! (7) 19 What you hurt your toe against when walking in the wood? (4) 21 Levels the scores (6) 24 When the person who cooked the books will be found out? (3,3,2,9) 27 While the best possible cover would be a dog (6) 29 Threw money around and created inflation (4) 30 The soft angora knitted up is just perfect (7) 33 A hundred per cent attendance, which is very sensible (3,5) 35 Gracious! They’re not proclaiming a marriage made in heaven! (5,5) 36 Get all the information you can about return draws (4) 37 The sound barrier! (7) 38 Shortly a man will enter the bar (6) 40 Unquestionably, I would need to break in (6) 41 Down south, now (3) 42 Sturdy and stupid, prepared to take on (8)
Down
1 Associate with a certain type of comedy (10) 2 Sound of the engine as you back up the car? (4) 3 Surpassing in open-air activities? (8) 4 A leak, you understand, to the paper (7) 5 Having reflected on what happened, imagined to be home again (7,4) 6 Thought a lot of and viewed as superior to oneself (6,2,2) 7 Criticises one when one strikes (6) 8 Be cleverer than, getting us to play the market (8) 10 He has to, when the girl comes round (5) 16 They’re going off, the no-goods! (7) 20 About to enter the figure (5) 22 I, chum, have grasped it, you must do the same (7) 23 Cheat X twice (6-5) 25 Arranged that before daybreak it’s waiting for you (2,3,5) 26 An attractive and efficient member of the search party (4-6) 28 Conceding that everything is due to (8) 31 Two idiots and a smart killer (8) 32 Frivolous and not always keeping one’s feet on the ground? (7) 34 Are somewhat infirm, he reckons (6) 35 Putted well, you grasp, from the conversation (5) 39 Characteristic of, you fancy (4)