QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Fruit 5 Head covering 9 Blasphemous utterance 10 Those likely to inherit 12 Reckon up 13 Rich tapestry 14 Prison room 15 Open mouthed 16 Influential teachers 18 Instead 20 Drug addict 21 Ship’s cheapest accommodation 23 Eternal 27 Chair 29 Body of water 30 Look fixedly 31 Automaton 33 Expensive 34 Musical drama 35 Ex Soviet leader 36 Public auctions 37 Throw lightly 38 Support on the golf course 39 Put a question to

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2 Book of the Bible 3 Agree in opinion 4 Dislikes intensely 5 Swiss cottage 6 Grammatical unit 7 Italian city 8 Cinema worker 11 Keen 16 Musician 17 Quantity of paper 19 Fewer 21 Go in search of 22 Region 24 Run away to marry 25 Most recent 26 Calm 27 Emphasise 28 Reach a destination 30 Dance 32 Confidently assertive