Giant Crossword

Across

9 It’s tea with no frills for father (8)

10 Save soap (3)

11 Away with a woman in America (6)

12 Try to grab and there’s a scrap (6)

13 Say you hope it’s oven-ready (7) 14 Arrange at the top or bottom of the sheet (4)

15 Meant to give serious thought to (10) 17 How close one is to being a miser? (8) 18 A furious addendum about people who steal the work of others (7)

19 Which of you came to a halt? (4)

21 He painted ‘The Convert’ (6)

24 Being as expansive as you could possibly be? (5,2,3,7)

27 Going up to pack the case, off we went (6) 29 Set out to capture a point (4)

30 For a rugger player, the way to capture a bouncing ball (7)

33 He’s mad to become a really good shot (8) 35 Minds going into exile (5,5)

36 Bound, when the top comes off, to break open (4)

37 Claws the children (7)

38 Turn the swine loose? That would be imprudent (6)

40 In view of the fact that you’re granting an interview (6)

41 Said I had gone down (3)

42 This bird is the bird that got at the ducks (8)

Down

1 Clamoring about an inferior article (10) 2 Covers up, but you notice (4)

3 Is the shopkeeper who sells it only after your money? (8)

4 The one sent off now as a replacement (7) 5 Attractive enough to be given as a gift? (11) 6 Point the damaged tamarinds out - a bird (4,6)

7 Rip off a child and that’s the punishment (6) 8 Just a fabrication of lies in an intricate pattern (4,4)

10 Animal from a river in a Scottish island (5) 16 Think I have a mine with silver in it (7) 20 Passes for the people who work in the factory (5)

22 Snake that perturbs people? (7) 23 Happens when one reaches the route between peaks (5,2,4) 25 The energy to vacate the seat and be on your way? (3,2,3,2) 26 Yielding and taking the inferior job (10)

28 Does he not break the news gently about the dog? (8) 31 ‘Sounds like a lightweight,’ you say (8)

32 To get the footstool, the fool has gone into debt (7) 34 Distant, I note, with the worker (6)

35 Can it be spent in idle loafing? (5)

39 Hearing a knock, cover up (4)