CRYPTIC CROSSWORD PETER CHAMBERLAIN

ACROSS

1 Unwrap some nuts for exceptional lady (10)

6 Stout hotel employee? (6) 10 Gesture that single tax was included as incentive (10) 11 Overbalancing part put into words (6)

13 What pet cat may do, do it without effort (4,2,4,3) 16 Man, he leaves here before ten (3)

17 Visionary speculation I had with eastern science (8) 20 Hang around, there’s a delay (5)

23 Old boys (3)

24 Not one Greek department having room (5)

25 In danger I can see Heather (5) 26 Shakespearean not back to give greeting (5)

27 Long time after lunch to complete the meal (3) 28 Leading lady from Sheba? (5) 29 Powerful waterfall, almost replete (8)

33 Ate presently (3)

34 Lucky turn? (9,4)

37 Coldest here to the east in France (6)

38 Booting TV in martial art (4,6) 40 Viewer has permit for loophole (6)

41 Smart canoe capsized in California (10)

DOWN

1 Not a difficult herbal remedy (6)

2 Powerful number inside vessel (6)

3 Some irreverence, but not from him? (3)

4 Not in act to excel (5)

5 Sailor took poem home (5) 7 Home having free design first, it has few internal walls (4-4,5)

8 A celebrant organised place of worship (10)

9 Less tension when one of the family included kiss by American (10)

12 What to do and how to finish chess my friend (8)

14 Does streaker hurry with this? (8,5)

15 Endless river produces nothing (3)

18 Begin shooting coal in it? (4,4)

19 Rose and I interweaved willow (5)

21 One lady going round mysterious clique for another (10)

22 Way that’s sensible being familiar with harsh realities of city life (10)

30 Many an outsize lettuce (3) 31 Army member I take on (6) 32 Slow in scoring (6)

35 Priest with half zany lady (5) 36 Walker, president within short time (5)

39 Not much resistance round His Majesty (3)