Giant Crossword

Across

8 Leaves or eats the bit on the outside (5,2) 9 Sets up as rival to a successful body-building

business? (7,2)

13 Jack will be a breeder (5)

14 Ways to make money (5)

15 Manage – to administer the anaesthetic

to? (4,3)

16 Interrupt, but you start getting used to it (5,2) 17 Find one must take a right turn first (5)

18 Give, as a tip, a ball-point (5)

20 Took a chance and within days are caught (5) 22 A danger to the people ahead of one (6) 23 Leaned over and told you what to bet on (6) 25 Said ‘A mere outward show,’ which does

offend (7)

27 That is among the various words meaning

‘hooligans’ (7)

30 Maybe black marks, thanks to being caught in

wrongdoing (6)

31 Were all different, as a random drive round

showed (6)

32 Catches ‘They ain’t hadders!’ (5)

35 Are too small to pick up (5)

36 Is first to be locked in the big prison (5)

37 As soon as you see round, things are

different (2,5)

39 Renovate and stash away again (7)

41 A retiring person of little intelligence; a

loner (5)

42 Animal of which there are many in the

pound (5)

43 Amazed by the speculator and the awful

greed (9)

44 The bird has flown, you understand from

her (7)

Down

1 Want Father Edward to come back at first (6) 2 Shot in the nude (8)

3 Are ice-picks used to work in it? (7,4) 4 Material wealth (9)

5 Zip up coats the salesman came back with (7) 6 Top time for successful mountaineering

expeditions? (4,6)

7 The name on the metal disc (4)

10 Felt anti an all-night sitting? (6)

11 A beating by father hurt (7)

12 Brooded over when drunk (6)

19 Reduce the price of squash (7)

21 The notes you keep from (7) 24 An electric blanket when you want

central heating? (4,7)

26 Pervade the whole of the

rehearsal? (3-7)

28 When unmasked, is brazen (4-5) 29 Girl getting the first rise in a job (7) 30 A really good note to end on.

Great (6)

32 Argues it’s intended to be

read (3,5)

33 Put the plastic cup beside the

seat (6)

34 The fellow had got angry but

concealed it (7)

38 Look! The strawberry roan is

rearing! (6)

40 The locale, or spot, spoken of (4)