JUMBO CROSSWORD
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS: 9 Loathe (9) 10 Painting (3,6) 12 Dye (4) 13 Agree (6) 14 Nationality (7) 15 Table (9)
17 Exacerbate (9)
18 Infuriated (7)
19 Expenditure (6)
20 Greek letter (4)
23 Baton (9)
25 Experienced (9)
26 Pain (4)
27 Hit (6)
29 Moved (7)
32 Sweetener (9)
34 Ecclesiastic (9)
35 Authorise (7)
36 Allow (6)
37 Expression (4)
38 Scattered (9)
39 Sure (9)
DOWN: 1 Fragment (8) 2 Examining (5,7) 3 Rubbed (8) 4 Rigorous (6)
5 Agreement (8) 6 Scoundrel (10)
7 Funny (7)
8 Immaterial (10)
11 Entertainment (5)
16 Bequest (6)
19 Confess (3)
21 Equable (4-8)
22 Annoying (6)
23 Surpasses (10)
24 Initiative (10)
25 Employ (3)
28 Insinuation (8)
29 Thieving (8)
30 Explosive (8)
31 Dish (7)
33 Manages (5)
34 Opportunity (6)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 9 Hanging up or not having yet hung up (2,3,4)
10 Emphasising it’s behaving badly (7,2)
12 Figure that would make sixty in the sty (4)
13 With liver trouble, a female (6)
14 Grant it’s cold once December starts (7)
15 Get a fire going, pour the cider and produce Chinese food (5,4) 17 Skip the drink and let’s have a game (9)
18 Making a siren go off in certain areas (7)
19 I had entered the arena on horseback (6)
20 The American, of course, is convinced (4)
23 Supplanted, as it happened (4,5)
25 A ferry was sent out for the travellers (9)
26 On the subject of surplus (4)
27 Bound to tell you without beating about the bush (6)
29 Row at a nightclub on the way (7)
32 Plant that’s more costly than the silver birch? (9)
34 It’s black and arid, stupid! (9)
35 For the passage, the trains run to time (7)
36 Having a cold, the royal baby is upset and peevish (6)
37 Most of all, to become a singer (4)
38 The greatest and biggest distributors do (9)
39 The well off won’t be on it (4,5)
DOWN
1 Fetching, is attracted by (5,3)
2 That one about the chap who’s always buying drinks? (8,4) 3 In “House of Sin”, play the baddies (8)
4 Describe as being fed up in the East (6)
5 Turned the hose on the pals out in the outhouse? (8)
6 A bad buy, but it does take in the girl (10)
7 The local rate will include the boat (7)
8 Astonished that it’s lacking an address (10)
11 About to load the gun? Terrific! (5)
16 With “Doctor, oh dear, I’m clumsy!” slumps down (6)
19 Would the herbalist wish he hadn’t stocked it? (3)
21 Is sensible and makes sandwiches? (4,4,4)
22 The usual offspring of a clergyman (6)
23 Reckoned to be wrong, when one considered fully (7,3) 24 Desire to get a breath of fresh air (10)
25 Will he have you laughing in a shake? (3)
28 Show I acted wrongly in the beginning (8)
29 Shrink, which is a snag (8)
30 Find, when you take the wrapper off? (8)
31 Breaking the rule, is giving a key to the rest (7)
33 Relied on having spare time (5)
34 Bear out one’s been confiscated by cook (6)