Giant Crossword
Across
9 Listen. The two men are moving (4,2,3) 10 I near got sent off – seriously (2,7) 12 Spells ‘paroxysms’ (4)
13 Thought it had got back in time (6)
14 With scorn said ‘Awful racket outside’ (7) 15 A flash and the light’s going on and off (9) 17 Cruel as the ingrate Frenchman? (9)
18 The springer sprang in the garden! (3,4) 19 Or making a comeback in the role of the flier (6)
20 Get attached, you say, to the foreigner (4) 23 Did it not rise as it should, for the baker? (9) 25 How Shakespeare’s collaborator worked happily? (4,1,4)
26 Drive off reversing to let us in (4)
27 Pass round and see to be bothered about (6) 29 Joins in the frenzied cheers when the ball is caught (7)
32 Plump up the pillow for the makeshift bed?(9) 34 Bedevilled, had had it (9) 35 Encourage the man – a rent-collector (7) 36 This character is no prohibitionist (6) 37 Behind one’s rival in points, is depressed (4)
38 They won’t get rid of their servants (9) 39 An atheist and treacherous (9) Down
1 Doomed to catch the bug? (3-5) 2 No holds barred if there should be an item missing (8,4)
3 ‘Don’t forget’, says the note, ‘the increment’ (8)
4 Their having lost the chess piece is annoying (6)
5 Calling a bankrupt ‘Mr Monies’, perhaps? (8) 6 The novice is given money at the base (10) 7 ‘The doctor act is in need of surgery’ is harsh (7)
8 Doesn’t sit until there’s a complete lack of movement (10)
11 About a second before, cancel (5) 16 Such a problem as granny might become? (6)
19 Pastry the half ripe one went into (3) 21 You’ll get a shock if it works! (4,8)
22 The iron and the wood, I myself carried (6)
23 Comes to a sudden halt, which prevents electrical trouble (5,5) 24 He’s more versatile than most and, on the whole, plumper (3-7) 25 ‘Just a minute’, said myself and yourself (3)
28 Punish when you write a tissue of lies (8)
29 Realised she had been trapped by the murderer (6,2)
30 In the sea, nudes swimming – foreigners (8) 31 Confident that it’s unfailing (7) 33 A bit to one side (5)
34 About to smoke, was made to alight (3,3)