CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Wherever the objets d’art may be exhibited, no matter what (2,3,4)

10 Lively man I am going out with - a new date (8)

12 Didn’t give you the true facts about the song (4)

13 Very cold and resentful (6)

14 The retiring editor is put through and there’s an argument (7)

15 Circumvents when one cajoles into it (4,5) 17 How Ray will give you the information about? (9)

18 Mistakenly, gets shot through the heart: bizarre (7)

20 Admits everything and cries (6)

21 Go first round to the prison (4)

24 A blithe “Would you like to release them?” (8)

26 Do they mean the end, for peeping Toms? (8)

28 I don’t believe it! A schedule! (4)

29 Insufficient to frighten many into (6)

31 That I am getting on is concealed by many cosmetics (7)

34 What you said was information supplied by the bank (9)

36 Is she an insurance that a magazine will sell? (5,4)

38 Include one in the grant arranged for clothing (7)

39 It’s left and the various heirs are about to enjoy it (6)

40 Doing nothing to disturb “12” (4)

41 Except for one sound the singer produced (8)

42 Put the candles out and pop back in for the painting (9)

DOWN

1 Steals the sheets covering the sick (8)

2 A knockabout number; that’s clear (6)

3 Hair of the dog I, before that, swallowed as a treatment (8)

4 Depressed when one bumped into? (6)

5 Lightwood you got from the honest merchant? (4,4)

6 Is it responsible for the draught in bed? (10) 7 The attendant took the fool into the corridor (7)

8 In consequence, sure to change the figure the time after (6)

11 A proclivity for banking (7)

16 The manager is an athlete (6)

19 Pan for cook (5)

20 One star (3)

22 A beer at “The Duck and Horse” (5)

23 It’s less glossy - that’s what’s wrong (6)

25 Time off that will be the making of you again? (10)

26 Rod will give the signal (3)

27 Point to, as you turn the pages round again (7)

30 Had spun round as before, one replied (8) 31 Music that doesn’t have a score? (4,4)

32 Repaired and found a buyer for the sculpted deer (8)

33 Retribution, it would seem, is to be moved to the north (7)

35 A woman from America in a foreign country (6)

36 How you told the fresh air fiend to close the window? (6)

37 Foreigner needing help to stand up in the bar (6)