Giant Crossword

Across

9 Very light-headed (3,6) 10 Understood to be in the red? A pack of lies! (8)

12 Stepped on the time switch (4)

13 Started to play tennis that was adequate? (6) 14 The dog bounds round in, coming back (7) 15 Meet and give a lift over to (3,6) 17 Playing there with a certain trio (9)

18 Like an angel, prepared to go out to get food (7)

20 He’s holding clubs but can’t play them in the game (6)

21 The parking card shows the rate (4)

24 It’s a fish? Smart boy! (8) 26 Speculate as to whether the balloon will go up?(8)

28 Has bought, from grants (4)

29 She has a gun (hasten to add, not the Sten!) (6) 31 Nuts that are very popular with monkeys (7) 34 Don’t allow the mind to wander during the game (9)

36 Succeeded in performing the difficult feat of removing? (6,3)

38 Does it take a walk around the rose garden? (7)

39 For the record, fall from grace in being beaten (6)

40 A dirty word for ‘squander’ (4) 41 Activities of the progressive? (6-2) 42 Granting interviews to all and sundry – that’s obvious (4,2,3)

Down

1 Though bucolic, is tense before an exam (8) 2 Nonplussed when given the chuck (6) 3 Before you run, it’s a harmless animal (8) 4 What the herbivore goes off with? (6) 5 Believed to have been lodged in one’s bank account (8)

6 Waiting to be complained about by the patrons (3,7)

7 Expanded, as the former did all round (7) 8 Tailoring, more at home in wool (6)

11 Not the same but a different tree the lad’s running round (7)

16 Convincing the dope to get into bed (6) 19 While standing on a box to get the material (5)

20 Shout to a pal on coming in (3) 22 Crime for which there is a lighter sentence? (5)

23 Is its concealment of an ugly forehead such a benefit? (6) 25 Order suitable attire (5,5)

26 It’s a plant stand, we’re told (3) 27 Refrained from because one was carrying something (7) 30 Contending there’s a taste of fish (8)

31 The foreigner in the bottom row (8) 32 Had been in pain, one allowed (8)

33 Furious, squirts oil into the opening (7)

35 So blast round the tree (6)

36 Bill is a stationer (6) 37 Solemn and wise-looking, frightening to a mousey type (6)