Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Shortest dance but one? (3-4)

9 Cumulative number of athletes in the race? (7, 5)

11 Time when one is out of work (7)

12 Old model, exhibitionist (7)

13 One magazine has theory on poetic movement (7)

14 Unleavened food made from grass and soap! (7)

15 Gleam having info about set of data (7)

18 Attempt to drive witches out of city (3)

20 Clear another extremely nasty theft (7)

22 Accelerate in Parisian style with little or no delay first (7)

23 Where in America it was fashionable in the past (7)

24 You endlessly clasp another during song (7)

25 Humble soldier backing peer (7)

26 Show up a continental cape (7)

27 Fast when dealing with notes (7)

30 Low-lying area containing some life now (3)

32 Beast gets sir confused (7)

36 Prophet found canal after second half of freeze (7)

37 Tag on again (7)

38 One seeing signatory of document (7)

39 Badly educated Bill turned left (3-4)

40 Living beside eccentric who is sceptical (12)

41 Nearly new science, the introduction of new words (7)

DOWN

1 Effective job for bank clerk (7)

2 Round northern port I’m getting up paper-folding (7)

3 Trout is dished up for tripper (7)

4 Superiority before having outstanding quality (3-8)

5 Examine soft-hearted creature (7)

6 Type of aid, only second half initially! (7)

7 Encourage to go round dish (3, 4)

8 One taking part in tournament on horseback found that ore juts out (7)

10 Seeing good girl reflectively here (7, 5)

16 Idle creature in sitting room? (6, 6)

17 Croesus producing something sweet (7)

19 Reuse c-celery recipe (7) 21 Laughing fowl? (7)

23 Put another signature against mark (11)

28 My brig’s capsized in port (7)

29 Leo will become boring (3, 4)

30 Dread the inclusion of lightweight object (7)

31 From northeast yours truly and little sister getting retribution (7)

33 Physicist left goalie in a tizzy going round (7)

34 Stop, amber maybe — go (7)

35 Do silly antics unanimously! (7)