JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Picture (8) 10 Totally (3)

11 Rubber (6) 12 Chessman (6)

13 Retribution (7) 14 Bound (4)

15 Sweet (10)

17 Stronghold (8)

18 Waterfall (7)

19 Sadly (4)

21 Reveal (6)

24 Average person (3,3,2,3,6)

27 Turning point (6)

29 Measure of land (4)

30 Attack (7)

33 Involved (8)

35 Friendliness (10)

36 Back (4)

37 Duo (7)

38 Horse’s shelter (6)

40 Wry (6)

41 Anger (3)

42 Awards (8)

DOWN: 1 Offset (10) 2 Male deer (4)

3 Torn (8) 4 Temporary substitute (5-2) 5 Stingy (5-6) 6 Unrelenting (10)

7 Close (6)

8 Frees (8)

10 Confess (5)

16 Parcels (7)

20 Subsequently (5)

22 Be superior (7)

23 Alcoholic drink (3,3,5)

25 Utterly (10)

26 Sneak (10)

28 Second-placed competitor (6-2)

31 Careless (8)

32 Stops (7)

34 Unmoored (6)

35 Spice (5)

39 Pain (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Realises she’s been captured by the murderer (6,2)

10 Match points, at the end of the game (3)

11 To the left, there’s a large gate (6)

12 Foreign money or a foreign lady (6)

13 A bed cover (7)

14 Repairs and it works (4)

15 Get one anaesthetised to bear it (10)

17 Very uncertainly? (8)

18 Cleaning the flimsy interior of the case (7)

19 A home in the plains? (4)

21 Put a little eggbeater inside, labelled (6)

24 Insisting on your telling all over again (9,1,7) 27 The carriage is not bad-looking, you say (6) 29 My game, pal! (4)

30 He gets no satisfaction from playing (7)

33 Had supervised while one edited the poetry in it (8)

35 Pretend to be an impresario? (3,2,2,3)

36 “One gets half the amount”, I put in (4)

37 Mostly, or possibly all, grey (7)

38 A pigeon found in the garden shed? (6)

40 Slacking on the job again, girl? (6)

41 Agree the rider has lost heart (3)

42 Telling about a can of lager that’s faulty (8)

DOWN

1 Grasp you’ll assume control of (4,2,4)

2 Drive off two balls, after telling people to stop talking (4)

3 He killed the two animals that got in (8)

4 And I set about getting, as a replacement (7)

5 Would such a school turn a Conservative into a Labourite? (11)

6 Having had a go at police, unfairly, is sorry (10) 7 The alarm is loud, don’t you agree? (6)

8 A shade wan and unhappy (4,4)

10 Having taken stock of, recorded (5)

16 Gets up late (7)

20 An airy “Come off it!” (5)

22 He’s greedy and puts on too much weight (7) 23 A rock band (7,4)

25 Very many are unable to be contacted by telephone (10)

26 Taking one’s turn to run, in it, church clubs (10)

28 Went ahead and made the loan (8)

31 Have the fellow stuff the animal (8)

32 Horses that are not goers? (7)

34 Sell up later when I am occupying it (6)

35 Walk about half a mile to petition for (5)

39 Many a hotel would be reluctant to (4)