Everyone’s crossword
ACROSS 7 Married woman’s ill-will (6) 8 General departure from service book (4, 6) 10 Informed monarch about now (7) 12 Small cooking department? (11) 13 Some heart-rending fashion (5) 14 Catch in a drum? (5) 15 A doctor goes round hospital for this special purpose (2, 3) 16 Archaeologists’s accommodation? (4) 17 A walk back for an animal (5) 19 Bird a very long time in Dorset resort (7) 20 Slick hit peculiarly difficult to deal with (8) 24 No fused section is serviceable (2, 3) 27 Huss I prepared for the Japanese dish (5) 28 Linger in a suppressed state on slow-burning fire (8) 29 Providing insulation but falling behind (7) 31 He’s to represent spirit (5) 33 Round number! (4) 34 Brown Owl (5) 35 Non-paying offence (5) 37 Sporting get-together? (5) 39 Recently but not in this 24 hours (3, 5, 3) 40 I moan re removal of glacial debris (7) 41 Sincere life bout stamina! (10) 42 Writer coming to a point (6)
DOWN 1 Blooming extravagance? (11) 2 Perfume dispatched as announced (5) 3 Virginia has a swim coming up from flat (5) 4 A club gathering avoiding contact with others (7) 5 Eject former gymnastics student (5) 6 Added an alteration to the appendices (7) 7 Couple bound to belong to the same union (3, 3, 4) 9 In which there’s a place for humour shortly (6) 11 Edgar’s new standard (5) 12 Chesspiece ’e’d given the title “Sir” (8) 15 A girl is wrong (5) 18 Flower girl (4) 21 Cash flow (8) 22 Fast walk? (6, 5) 23 Help me on, an arrangement that’s remarkable (10) 25 In contempt you left it unfurnished (5) 26 Left classy party game (4) 29 Look with deputy (5) 30 Ring was the lady’s (6) 31 Support witch’s place to the southeast (7) 32 Claret’s changed colour (7) 36 One in school having a good time? (5) 37 Relish impudence (5) 38 Not me, revolutionary painter (5)