JUMBO CROSSWORD
QUICK CLUES ACROSS: 9 Reluctant (9) 10 Drawback (8) 12 Row (4) 13 Seem (6)
14 Month (7) 15 Cherished (9)
17 Flawed (9)
18 Offensive (7)
20 Contended (6)
21 So (4)
24 Goodbye (8)
26 Valuable (8)
28 Profound (4)
29 Clear (6)
31 Flood (7)
34 Characteristic (9)
36 Change (9)
38 Remark (7)
39 Straight (6)
40 Jetty (4)
41 Augured (8)
42 Sham (9)
DOWN: 1 Report (8) 2 Pain (6)
3 Scatter (8) 4 Tallied (6)
5 Delightful (8) 6 Unfinished (10)
7 Bird (7) 8 Wander (6) 11 Object (7)
16 Rain (6)
19 Silly (5)
20 Totally (3)
22 Accommodate (5)
23 Filaments (6)
25 Assessment (10)
26 Favourite (3)
27 Loan (7)
30 Visor (8)
31 Send (8)
32 Fruit (8)
33 Animated (7)
35 Drum (3,3)
36 Game (6)
37 Source (6)
ACROSS: 9 Assembled then to go off, one after the other (2,3,4)
10 The first lira Gino counterfeited (8)
12 “A clout” is an item of apparel (4)
13 Unnerves the many relatives (6)
14 What the golfing textile manufacturer called his wood? (3-4)
15 Cash the teller didn’t receive? (4,5)
17 The tantrum to end all tantrums, at close of play (4,5)
18 Agreed everything was bound to come out (7)
20 The girl I’m giving back the book to (6)
21 An advantage and more (4)
24 It takes hard workers to keep it provided with meals (8)
26 Perform well in, increasing gradually in volume (8)
28 Covering brought back in order to cover the hole (4)
29 Dejected, or in some distress (6)
31 Turn a child against a certain vegetable (7)
34 He’s not in an office but catching fish in the country (9)
36 Name of the man crossing the street against the traffic lights? (3,6) 38 Opens the blinds when one arrives (5,2)
39 For a cooking utensil, go to where the cooking utensils are kept (6) 40 I can dispense with the candle: it’s useless (4)
41 How one regretted sucking the lemon? (8)
42 What the pub’s called? (5,4)
DOWN: 1 Might be better a little cooler (3,2,3)
2 Heaps of small nails (6)
3 Decreed a raid should be carried out by, one day (8)
4 Inclined to be wounding, which is mean (6)
5 Only looks carefully round, but it makes one feel better (8)
6 Most of the meat delivered to the zoo? (5,5)
7 Wind up speaking in a foreign language (7)
8 I got into the vehicle again with her (6)
11 Where the difference between the past and present is great? (7) 16 An hour after midnight, she gets back home (6)
19 Some calling out in a strange language (5)
20 A mother has a right to spoil! (3)
22 And I swerved to one side when she appeared (5)
23 Slicing liver to give to a woman (6)
25 Played the doctor in the Bond film or stayed out of it (4,2,4)
26 The sound of water - didn’t I tell you so! (3)
27 Favours “directs one’s attention to the page before” (7)
30 More than satisfies (8)
31 Pray tell me the name of the girl (3,5)
32 Heard running round the lair and got set (8)
33 Seem half the fools got shut inside the cupboards (7)
35 Brings back rice (about a pound) and a cake (6)
36 Music and the sound of bells (6)
37 Steal away when the child goes to sleep (6)