LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Deficit 9 Ratification 11 Austria 12 Inkhorn 13 Trivial 14 Naphtha 15 Conceal 18 Gas 20 Daytime 22 Berlioz 23 Lawless 24 Equerry 25 Janitor 26 Codicil 27 Adhered 30 Amp 32 Niggled 36 Abdomen 37 Hoatzin 38 Thin air 39 Oak tree 40 Executorship 41 Emerson DOWN: 1 Drastic 2 Fission 3 Carmine 4 Trail-blazer 5 Stoking 6 Y-fronts 7 Scanned 8 Atrophy 10 New Hampshire 16 Over and above 17 Collide 19 Atheism 21 Telling 23 Lycanthrope 28 Romance 29 Dentate 30 Algiers 31 Panache 33 Grackle 34 Lazarus 35 Dungeon