Standard two-in-one Cryptic Puzzle

ACROSS

9 Refrain from including an Eastern ancestor (8)

10 There’s nothing about

accommodating the deer (3) 11 Meaning Scamp to take the ball

right to (6)

12 Not just cloudy? (6)

13 So get me one, I don’t care

which of you does! (7)

14 With the day almost over, it flies!

(4)

15 Did it and was removed bodily

(7,3)

17 Better pack the eggs in with the

vegetable (8)

18 Would you put your faith in a

builder who could do so? (7) 19 To tow back, charge (4)

21 Indict the copper in the case wrongfully (6) 24 Capitulates and gives the cake free (6,2,3,6)

27 A rather rough sea, too (2,4) 29 Nonsense! A hard drinker knocks it back! (4)

30 Climbs, but when it gets cold, stops (7)

33 Got back there to assemble in a group (8)

35 In favour of acquiring, but being absent-minded about (10) 36 There’s a number on her back (4)

37 They know a lot about the cross Peter’s forced to bear (7)

38 The character that put the ‘To Rent’ sign outside? (6) 40 Calm down and pay (6)

41 Said I would take a look at (3) 42 Wrongly thought to have said ‘in

mid-cut’ (8)

DOWN

1 Ringing from somewhere at the funfair (10)

2 Getting a letter wrong in the second half of the alphabet (4) 3 Be told twice to voice your approval (4,4)

4 Continue to recruit, willy-nilly? (5,2)

5 That damned deliveryman? (5,6) 6 The scoutmaster’s assistant? (4,2,4)

7 When the creature returns, gives it another dousing (6)

8 The clergyman is embraced by the holy prior (8) 10 Send the metronome back? (5) 16 Take back ‘misfortune’ (7) 20 Scolds – and one deserves it (5) 22 In substance, quite satisfied (7) 23 Disguised, in its present form (4,7)

25 Worked on by a good cobbler? That’s rich! (4-6)

26 Come to a sad conclusion (3,2,5)

28 Curtain drawn, take on a tour of (4,4)

31 Not pipped, as no really good players are competing? (8) 32 Will go on being soft in the head, you suppose (7) 34 Demands that one does it at once (6)

35 Might use a jemmy? (5) 39 Draws one into the set-up (4)