The Chronicle

Giant Crossword

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Across

9 The odds are the crumpled note contains another crumpled note (3,2,3) 10 Twice a day, in she comes! (3) 11 What the stolen pet was given to eat? (3,3) 12 Carry it off with verve (6) 13 Though gorged with food, Peter ran the half mile in (7) 14 A fool holding power can be extremely dangerous (4) 15 Well filled-in tax form showing the nice profit (4,6) 17 Hardly surprising, now the drone is working (2,6) 18 How one brought the interrogat­ion to a standstill? (7) 19 Don’t leave shore (4) 21 So you know it will nauseate you (6) 24 Going into a dark room and thinking? (10,3,4) 27 Pants for drinks (6) 29 On return, met one with the news (4) 30 The note, you guarantee, will be disapprovi­ng (7) 33 They made the weird crates the gold is stored in (8) 35 Gracious! Is that what’s got me nicknamed “The Saint”? (2,8) 36 Get the impression you are not insensitiv­e (4) 37 The doctor should and I would prescribe water for it (7) 38 To the workers, one is a threat (6) 40 With a shiner, look very angry (6) 41 Put it away in the attic (3) 42 Tied up to deter the straying (8)

Down

1 Don’t recall the diplomat, but continue to inform (4,6) 2 Nick does begin to waken (4) 3 Arrived together, surprising­ly (3,5) 4 So timorous it’s awful? (7) 5 Don’t forget when you are looking through the keyhole? (4,2,3,2) 6 Land too precipitou­s to grow anything on? (5,5) 7 Make a great effort to find the ancestry (6) 8 The whole fifty will enter to contend (8) 10 The page Sean tore out shows a tree (5) 16 Free to hand over to (7) 20 Nervous, stand holding the poles (5) 22 Do the inside edges in red (7) 23 Spring water (5,6) 25 The closing rounds (4,6) 26 Is it, for some obscure reason, not to be revealed? (4,6) 28 If you say “Whoa!” will it stop biting? (8) 31 Or beset by hostility and extreme wickedness (8) 32 Shake it and a stone comes out (7) 34 Grants one is permissive (6) 35 May is the little child spoken of (5) 39 Want to embed the point in the wrong end (4)

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