Giant Crossword

Across

8 Having the power to agitate by talk (7) 9 Speak frankly and circumvent the strike (3,4,2) 13 After working, I get on the food (5) 14 A game with mum (5) 15 Prison Brown has gone worriedly into (7) 16 Leave it be, child: it’s just a hat (7) 17 Is apt to, if one cares for (5) 18 The man’s name can be made up (5) 20 Build to accommodate (3,2) 22 Talk about rain! How the plants will shoot! (6) 23 In that case it’s raining and everybody is inside (6) 25 A card with a warning! (7) 27 Calmed down, also, when back in the outhouse (7) 30 Jokes about the rents (6) 31 A dog, dear? It’s a doll (6) 32 Bargain with, when you foot the bill for (5) 35 Leaves when one tries to influence mentally (5) 36 Speak of returning, too (5) 37 Try to find, but be careful! (4,3) 39 The list’s on display when one arrives (5,2) 41 “Will discourage a slimmer”, I put in (5) 42 Be holding a bone, as an inducement (5) 43 Asked for a search to be made, in the grass (9) 44 Got as far as ‘yearned once more to’ (7)

Down

1 Bear out one’s gone in to cook (6) 2 When the kiosk’s erected, seems about to leave (6,2) 3 Got angry about what the headwind did? (4,4,3) 4 Only puts on loosely, yet fastens (7,2) 5 The daughter, at heart, wishes to change nationality (7) 6 Puts up with the lack of food and doesn’t budge (6,4) 7 Fish that will hurl itself at another in a fight? (4) 10 Fifty-fifty chance the drunk will go back to drink (4-2) 11 Snapped a bird - a wading bird (7) 12 Meaning to get the material back into the tin, somehow (6) 19 Take over from with ease (7) 21 Figure twirling the lariat round is hard work (7) 24 ‘Please Forward’ (It’s worth money) (6,5) 26 Argues about, but accepts the result (5,5) 28 Does it feature in an advertisement for the Reptile House? (4,5) 29 For morale, drinks (7) 30 He’s afraid he’ll have to share his guardian with another (6) 32 Ate one’s words when one saw home (4,4) 33 Are not on a secure footing, he adds (6) 34 Intend to get work in writing (7) 38 He’s right at the foot of the tree (6) 40 Wasn’t a true example of a poem set to music? (4)