The National Crossword

ACROSS

1 Wish for wrongfully

5 Ship’s officer

9 Bathroom item

11 Golf mound

12 Bucolic

13 School of whales

15 High mountain

16 Withdrawing from federation

18 Trims

20 Numeral

21 Love God

23 Architectural features

25 Exclude

26 Country

28 Deep mud

30 Roman poet

32 Weary

33 Stirs violently

34 Summit

36 Permit

37 Poke gently

38 Female sheep

39 Nostrils

40 Autocrat

41 Concise

DOWN

2 Of the eye

3 Effaces

4 Stories

5 Squandering

6 Male deer

7 Slippery fish

8 Kept under

10 Frank

14 UAE monetary unit

17 Beak

18 Continued firmly

19 Acting part

22 Contrite

24 Den

25 Satan

27 Domestic animal

28 Misapplication

29 Is monarch

31 Facts given

32 Dogma

33 Copies

35 Be indebted