Everyone’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Not a flat race apparently between unequal rivals (6, 7) 10 Boastful bird? (4) 11 Consult about single tree (7) 12 What many a tear may do (4) 15 Owner died rearranging cover (9) 16 Made a tidy profit? (7, 2) 17 Withdraw this in France Dee’s upset about (6) 19 Smoke 101 fish (5) 20 Promise father a part (6) 24 Prepared dirty room for sleeping in (9) 25 Way that’s green first for a self-contained community! (9) 26 Keeping this fee (9) 29 Printed work with creator a turf accountant (9) 31 Strong drink to sing about (6) 32 Poet appeared the day before (5) 33 About 50 in church drive home (6) 36 Brachycephalic Puritan? (9) 38 Leavin’ hat off the monster (9) 40 Obtain a drink outside (4) 41 Took steps on the floor producing same bad arrangement (7) 42 Little Alexandra loses a part of the windowframe (4) 43 A nameless germ spreading disease (6, 7)
DOWN
2 More modern one we readily included (5) 3 Don’t study the heater, a carrier of disease! (6) 4 Person of little importance had ninety-ton monstrosity (9) 5 Referee taking up most of the room I had taken in (9) 6 Large dish, manufacture enough inside (6) 7 Sidney had less than one port (5) 8 Furnace manufacturer (8) 9 Part nearer the rear taken by the Devil? (8) 13 Much visited spot on the edge of the country (7, 6) 14 One putting his foot down, a drug pusher (5, 8) 18 Motoring in this rain? (7) 21 It is so bad it cannot be fathomed (7) 22 Poison tailless Tom before ten inside (5) 23 Idiot, middle-of-the-road, performing (5) 27 But lira was exchanged about noon in court (8) 28 Railwayman’s assistant in the forces? (9) 29 It is used to fight a hefty woman (6-3) 30 Family has revolutionised it in an African capital (8) 34 It’s thrown from ships and aircraft in the morning (6) 35 Dodges, Dave ’e’s confused (6) 37 One capped at the bottom of the class (5) 39 Passageway is surrounded by drink (5)