Giant Crossword

Across

9 Angry, I meant somehow to get

through (2,1,6)

10 Didn’t take seriously a delay apt to cause

havoc (6,2)

12 Realised it had a novel sound (4)

13 It takes time to get to know one well (6)

14 If you really want to know about it, ask

cook! (7)

15 Having been parachuted down, visited (7,2) 17 Soon, at nine about, mother will enter (2,1,6) 18 So retirement in Capri turned out to be dull (7) 20 Stops talking in the intervals (6)

21 Figure it’s a bald patch in the animal’s coat (4) 24 A refusal to reply is not the solution (2,6) 26 ”Justifies a fight,” one storms (8)

28 Do the same and put a kiss on the top (4) 29 Jokes with the chaps (6)

31 In the shade of the tree, felt discontented (7) 34 Needed, was paged (6,3)

36 Only one side is quite as it should be (4,5) 38 With “Bother!” ran off to shelter inside from

the storm (7)

39 Will have it one’s exterior isn’t to be

renovated (6)

40 Are no longer as you and I are (4)

41 A memo about the tender (8)

42 With Leo, I had built myself a lovely

abode (5,4)

Down

1 Got better when given a lift (6,2)

2 Develop a liking for when you accompany

there (4,2)

3 The occasional cop’s raid eradicates it (8) 4 Had cropped up when an increment came

through (6)

5 Attack the old-fashioned means of

heating (4,4)

6 Brand is the tail-ender (4,6)

7 Say the soldiers got into trouble (7)

8 The tree I myself planted outside the club (6) 11 Is not wrong about its being yet to come (2,5) 16 Intends to take one through the steppes (6) 19 Circle the area with the bracing air (5) 20 Save soap (3)

22 How “decimal” is frequently defined in a

dictionary (5)

23 Mum, the agent has turned up the draught

regulator (6) 25 Fight that won’t stop you talking

to someone (3,2,5)

26 Had been the cutter-up (3) 27 Charms, to a degree, the

northerners (7)

30 Are they spreading disease

among cyclists? (8)

31 Fought back at first, trapped by

the tangled reeds (8)

32 Did come round at that point but

was indecisive (8)

33 Figure “Elaine” could be her

name (7)

35 Read “Running from one side to

the other is a pantry” (6)

36 He’s come home only this

minute (6)

37 Continues, as it happens (4,2)