STANDARD TWO-IN-ONE

CRYPTIC PUZZLE

ACROSS

8 Early days of the young Robin (7)

9 Well, well! So it’s only imagination! (4,5)

13 A small coop by a tree (5)

14 I think I’ve got it working! (5)

15 The second delivery? (7)

16 Detective who leaves sticky footprints behind him? (7)

17 Fur auction the British go in for (5)

18 In getting a plant substance, commit another offence (5)

20 When returning with money to get the material (5)

22 A ticking off for the sailor (6)

23 In lieu, I have fish (6)

25 For a semi-detached, shows potential (7)

27 A lot of water in a fissure on the hill (7)

30 The lawyer’s employer has the right to appear in court (6)

31 Leave floating on the river for show (6)

32 A setter making a row (5)

35 Ramon after the sex change? (5)

36 Beat the most easily beaten (5)

37 Result of making a debut? (7)

39 Let everybody out, do we? (7)

41 So, if he were given only half a chance … (5)

42 Open up, man! (5)

43 Rush the papers through that were held back (9)

44 The artist in “The Rope” (7)

DOWN

1 Gun dogs – two of them (3-3)

2 Cheers! A double feature! (4-4)

3 Cheat a score of Romans (6-5)

4 Is it a rib-tickler? (5,4)

5 People run when he shoots (7)

6 Criminal who would be quite happy to get bird (3,7)

7 Mark, the fellow with the muffler (4)

10 Bad guess – not US emblems (6)

11 Dogs from British possessions (7)

12 Transmute into silver? (6)

19 A wood on the borders of a local river (7)

21 A dog trained to fight (7)

24 Try one’s level best to swindle as many as possible (2,3,3,3)

26 Playing the organ as a job? (6,4)

28 Money of which finders are keepers (6,3)

29 We had got the gun in central London (4,3)

30 Are capable of duplicating the dance (6)

32 Not to mention the claw, in general sheathed (3,5)

33 Swam round the fish, angry (6)

34 The foreign editor, in plush surroundings (7)

38 Animals in pounds (6)

40 Misled a number of Germans (4)