Giant Crossword

Across

9 If necessary, given a little knock, will move (2,1,5)

10 Not working? That’s bad (3)

11 A strange story about the East – bed’s the place for it (6)

12 The name on the trunk, perhaps (6) 13 Vegetables in the field (7)

14 Leave with the thing at once (4) 15 Where people who indulge in bondage do their shopping? (5,5)

17 Don’t win back the girlfriend, coming round most unhappy (8)

18 Ring the bell, perhaps, and get one down (7) 19 Be first, when there’s a vacancy, to write to (4)

21 Complete by about ten to one again (6) 24 Mr Average, who’s no stay-athome? (3,3,2,3,6)

27 Removing, for instance, the grill, you get a little electric shock (6)

29 Sprain when taking a walk? (4) 30 Horrifies, but having the key to the heart, attracts (7)

33 Having a lunch out with the Queen will get things going (8)

35 ‘Fine’, you answer, ‘if there’s a decent yield’ (4,6)

36 Being a fool to tease (4)

37 Was in a hurry putting the oil in and made a mess of it (7)

38 Coming soon, we’re told, to spur us on (6) 40 Tell you, as a member of the class (6) 41 Stop a goal (3)

42 A quick couple of hacks (4-4)

Down

1 The affection one Siamese twin has for another? (10)

2 See and touch (4)

3 Supports for the last roses to come out (8) 4 Leaves rolled up, to burn (7)

5 Such speeches as we’re fed up hearing (5,6) 6 First agree about its being in keeping (10) 7 That will be unpopular with the poor sailor, too (2,4)

8 In another way regrets having included one in the list (8)

10 Game that you can pick up easily? (5) 16 The new earl is, I find, a foreigner (7) 20 Pop back again and knock (5) 22 Attending twice, for that reason (7)

23 A lot of sales of the jumbo pie? (3,8)

25 Despite that, it’s just what fingerprints are not (3,3,4) 26 Having real trouble in rewriting in toto, requiring endurance (10) 28 A blow to the face (8)

31 The verandas left one cold – so strange-looking (8)

32 How the maestro will behave? (7) 34 Thought someone other than myself had got on (6)

35 The cold leg I carved before dinner started (5)

39 Get ready to fire, mate (4)