Cryptic clues

Across

10. Red desert (6)

11. Travel plan for tour out east (5)

12. Digger helps to steer ship (6)

13. Leads the way by putting one in the docks (8)

14. I get poncho off to look great for camera (10) 15. Cake of gold found behind garden door (6)

16. He was president. Honest! (3)

18. Eli veers around and takes acting position (8) 19. Seers fib about flying saucers (8)

21. Where to stand when you swear you’ve seen something (7,3)

24. How long it takes to find silver bearings (4) 25. Soaked in unhealthy kind of fat (9)

27. Shrug off having no right to cuddles (4)

28. Mice got into liver left out with pasta (10) 31. Pursuing change by assuming power (8) 33. Military Intelligence’s boss involved in troublemaking (8)

36. Childlessly kidnap pile of carpets (3)

37. Less constricting roles organised outside ring (6) 39. Contracts for apprentices with false teeth? (10) 41. Arches hide four historical documents (8) 42. Brook is about to get in back order of mats (6) 43. German woman detected beginning of deliberate deception (5)

44. Involve some chosen tailenders (6)

Down

1. Capital kind of folder (6)

2. Earls’ wives add up how many times 19th letter appears, apparently (10)

3. Anxious about cue resin (8)

4. Radio receiver looks like a collection of fine glassware (7,3)

5. Swallow nervously when sink stopper turns up (4) 6. Drat! Come around if you’re an Obama supporter (8)

7. Amble along street with list of names (6) 8. Having no idea with no hints offered (8) 9. Colour of church on hill (6) 17. Post-Victorian queen’s third son, Ian (9)

20. Hero guesses hiding place of scoundrel (5) 22. Finish off goal (3)

23. Argon treatment for kidney, perhaps (5)

25. In very bad taste, we hear, when spelled like this (3) 26. They are valuable in a deal like written greetings from Donald or Ivana (5,5)

27. Their performance might put some to sleep (10) 29. Mr Guevara gets stuck into mates for having jungle knives (8)

30. Fit flare adapted for inflatable boat (4,4) 32. Opened up about being bald? (8)

34. Scoffed after inn was inherited (6)

35. Keeping the beat sooner or later (2,4)

38. Cover with lashes? (6)

40. Kind of opera favoured in the shower? (4)