Giant Crossword
Across
9 The ‘Get a move on’ does seem pointed (4,5)
10 A restaurant on the way home (9)
12 In the film, play the drunk (4)
13 Very small and twinkling (6)
14 ‘The wrong people’, you put in, ‘to pester’ (7) 15 Material the go-getter went off East to get (9) 17 Didn’t leave behind the children, one argued (4,5)
18 The foot, from the top of the toe to the heel (7) 19 The attendant will put more crushed ice round it (6)
20 Got up in pink (4)
23 Attack a cat in France after a bird (9) 25 Stop to get the man something from the supermarket (9)
26 Helps to protect, one notices (4) 27 Room for about a thousand fish (6) 29 Spend money freely when they let you have it! (4,3)
32 Unhappy, urge to take action about (9) 34 Will try to get at the men trapped inside (9) 35 Helpful advice from one’s best friend (7) 36 Only a third of the people admitted publicly (6)
37 It’s very old and you have replaced it (4) 38 Hints again the notes are forged (9)
39 Run down, father. Edgar is in trouble outside (9)
Down
1 Completely one-sided, but that’s OK (3,5) 2 Get as far as ‘Useless. Will have a bad end’ (4,2,2,4)
3 Set about Brian patrolling outside (the guard) (8)
4 How the bird looks after preening in the tree? (6)
5 Stopped the others going through a stop light (8)
6 He draws a box first with nothing in it (10) 7 Does he, after tea, take to his bed? (7) 8 The paying of one’s debt to the community? (10)
11 The ushers have no aspiration to become operators (5)
16 Are collectors, you understand (6) 19 Having a cold, going back to bed (3) 21 How some T-shirts can be got on is impossible to understand! (4,4,4) 22 Run again and the cat’s out to catch (6)
23 Give your seat to? That’s champion! (5,2,3)
24 As a leader, powerful and stubborn (10)
25 Will agree to come back, you assume (3)
28 Had dug a hole, you think, to get out from the asylum (8)
29 Not bending over because lacking the energy to? (8) 30 Tied up to deter wandering round the enclosure (8)
31 In the new tests, including the former groups (7)
33 In brief, first-class (5) 34 Smart attempt to get a goal through (6)