Giant Crossword Last week’s solution
Across
8 Killed by someone who had been one’s char? (4,3)
9 Does one stand out from the rest of the cast in it? (5,4)
13 Would give a great deal to hear (5)
14 A dear item in the mason’s yard (5)
15 Step outside the pub to see the boat (7) 16 Worry about nothing ourselves; just have a good time (7)
17 Assumed it’s turned down (3,2) 18 Attacked when returning the keys (3,2) 20 Force to take to (5)
22 Go on telling you what’s been happening (6) 23 Are given stick about having yelled (6) 25 The dope got his in a mess (7)
27 Were surrounded by fish and were clearly frightened (7)
30 Manages successfully to get fluctuations in (6)
31 Booze bottle (6)
32 Regard as a duty (5)
35 It’s an insect, child, on the tree (5) 36 Classifies as seconds - there’s a hole right inside (5)
37 Someone wearing uniform and an overall (7) 39 The smoke will get in your hair (7)
41 May force (5)
42 Picture that’s framed in ‘21’ (5) 43 Stopping to make a call when the others go inside (9)
44 Say the chaps have got into trouble (7)
Down
1 ‘Hat,’ not ‘bat’ (6)
2 What you need if you’re sick of working? (4,4) 3 To cheat, take passage both ways (6-5) 4 From the days of the Evangelist, just awaits developments (5,4)
5 React when the person goes off key (7) 6 Makes one realise one inflicts on the family, too (6,4)
7 Circus performer got up as a pixie (4) 10 Caught in the drain, went off and it’s bad (6) 11 Order to get rid of (7)
12 Was inclined to erect a home on the open ground (6)
19 In the run-up, people pester one (7) 21 Think it’s a trap and I myself skirt it (7) 24 Had amassed, when they met (3,8)
26 Arrogant, though complying with the gunman’s instructions (4-6) 28 Meant somehow to catch, going back into the home (9) 29 Agrees to convert on the quiet, as forecast (7)
30 Propose that you subject yourself to (6)
32 Investigated thoroughly when one had a prang (4,4)
33 Let wander inside, had been stopped by (6)
34 Says to confiscate the royal possessions (7)
38 Try to talk out of - with justification (6)
40 Would you like to look after? (4)
Across: 9, Talks into 10, Tear-away 12, A-to-M 13, Lead on 14, Engaged 15, Not likely 17, A-X-minster 18, Distan-(Augus) t 20, M-edus-a 21, Spin (rev) 24, No-w-onder 26, Peculiar 28, I-tem (rev) 29, Spirit 31, Present 34, Dis-covers 36, Played out 38, Off-ends 39, Lo-O-k-in 40, Bill 41, Sections 42, Patronise.
Down: 1, Strained 2, Al-MO-st 3, I-nterest 4, Coldly 5, Standard 6, Water music 7, Bagging 8, Taught (taut) 11, Ado-ring 16, In a row 19, Score 20, Mar (rev) 22, Plane 23, Allege (a ledge) 25, Depression 26, Pat 27, Bird dog 30, Rest-less 31, Pian-Ist-s 32, Tot-all-ed 33, Con-note 35, S-often 36, Prompt 37, O-rigin.