Everyone’s Crossword

ACROSS 1 Sudden fall of rain (13)

10 Pitch by northern lake (4) 11 Having got up Prue’s in trouble (7)

12 Await, some forbid entry (4) 15 Bowl too far on black surface? (9)

16 Wager about cad using mechanism (9)

17 Less than one round figure (6) 19 Have nice experience in French transport (5)

20 Framework for the rest of a baby? (6)

24 Say goodbye and go on holiday (4, 5)

25 According to Peter, member included date-plum (9)

26 Leaving out fashionable number in embrace once previously (9)

29 Practitioner Thea with oomph excited (9)

31 Lady ill upsetting

Scotsman (6)

32 It has some degree of inclination (5)

33 Check polish again (6) 36 Ultimately understand what diocesan visitors do (4, 2, 3)

38 Enthusiastic about aphrodisiac, not in advance initially (9)

40 Philip shortly, say, has top up (4)

41 Short preliminary passage, it follows anthem (7)

42 Suggestive of being risqué (4)

43 Like someone left by the road who is rather ungenerous (2, 3, 8)

DOWN

2 Incur debts during period before election (3-2)

3 Right to be leaving nation’s territory or part of it (6)

4 Rod broke can by accident (9) 5 Squad going after job for working party (4-5)

6 I can’t arrange name on container (3-3)

7 Lake with neat curve (5) 8 Game-bird, one requiring special help (4, 4)

9 Disastrously mend a dud appendix (8)

13 All day from one to twelve (5, 3, 5)

14 Completely exhausted but not blushing (4, 2, 3, 4)

18 Great, Helen loses measure before taking reported lover (7)

21 Greet head zookeeper in foreign capital getting to the root of the matter? (7) 22 Saying it’s the most, 999 (5) 23 Ship, a drifter? (5)

27 Country state capital, say (8) 28 Long stave removed from the bay (9)

29 Conic section of barley hop removed (9)

30 This is still a water-carrier (8) 34 Prophet is a one with a head start (6)

35 About to perform with you and me on desert plant (6)

37 Foot alongside containing claw (5)

39 Be quiet with colourful piece (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Two-step 9 Running total 11 Leisure 12 Exposer 13 Imagism 14 Oatcake 15 Glisten 18 Try 20 Larceny 22 Quicken 23 Chicago 24 Calypso 25 Ignoble 26 Uncloak 27 Allegro 30 Fen 32 Tigress 36 Ezekiel 37 Relabel 38 Witness 39 Ill-bred 40 Disbelieving 41 Neology

DOWN: 1 Telling 2 Origami 3 Tourist 4 Pre-eminence 5 Inspect 6 Firstly

7 Egg roll 8 Jouster 10 Looking glass 16 Lounge lizard 17 Sucrose 19 Recycle 21 Cackler 23 Countersign 28 Grimsby 29 Oil well 30 Feather 31 Nemesis 33 Galileo 34 Embargo 35 Solidly