JUMBO CROSSWORD
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS: 9 Annoy (8) 10 Fish (3)
11 Strolled (6) 12 Weed (6)
13 Oiled (7) 14 Test (4)
15 Fruit (10)
17 Augur (8)
18 Sweet (7)
19 Service (4)
21 Keen (6)
24 Fleeing (6,2,4,5)
27 Centre (6)
29 Old (4)
30 Cheese (7)
33 Linguist (8)
35 Seemingly (10)
36 Invoice (4)
37 Break (7)
38 Hostility (6)
40 Shrink (6)
41 Finish (3)
42 Exaggerated (8)
DOWN: 1 Not germane (10) 2 Herb (4) 3 Insouciant (8) 4 Nationality (7)
5 Stingy (5-6) 6 Nonsense (10)
7 Thing (6)
8 Happened (8)
10 Build (5)
16 Struck (7)
20 Over (5)
22 China (7)
23 Prim (6-5)
25 Unnecessarily (10)
26 Fever (10)
28 Loved (8)
31 Stiffened (8)
32 Bird (7)
34 Colour (6)
35 Behaved (5)
39 Forced (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 What the golfer went round in, when under the weather? (5,3) 10 Understand, when the note is sounded (3)
11 Reach for the soldiers, in a box (6)
12 Find it impossible to turn about at a fast pace (6)
13 A most unpleasant “Is one to restore order in it?” (7)
14 Alas, taking a fifty percent cut, therefore, too (3)
15 A singer? Not so. I perform as a musician (10)
17 “Good gracious!” you repeat, “my love” (4,4)
18 What the streaking soldier wore? (7)
19 Thanks the unknown one for providing transport (4)
21 Tried it on the buds! (6)
24 Doing everything possible to be irritating? (6,4,7)
27 And nipped outside to get the outlaw (6)
29 He’s well up in music! (4)
30 A bird or part of a bird (7)
33 Thought to be a water reed of a new kind (8)
35 Bird that keeps pestering the female? (3,7)
36 Lean against for balance (4)
37 Little aquatic birds and seals, we’re told (7)
38 A runabout in the rubbish dump, or in the garden (6)
40 Set around lunchtime, for fish (6)
41 She gets one day a year off (3)
42 Guess it’s the wrong site, chum (7)
DOWN
1 Determined not to be given as an opponent (3,7)
2 After you send it (4)
3 With false promises to pay the debt, egg to come over (8)
4 Mad when caught in the tail end of the traffic, rage (7)
5 Does it give one another glimpse of the occult? (6,5)
6 Is like some grasping forebear? (5,5)
7 Sandy hair? (6)
8 Give wrong information while the friend sits knitting inside (8) 10 Not slow to identify the bird (5)
16 Supported right through when one transgressed (7)
20 About five teardrops you turn your glance away from (5)
22 Needed if it’s cool when we take a rest break outside (7)
23 Sometimes twice! (3,3,5)
25 Metal gadget for hitting people on the head? (10)
26 Became, when one left the road and steered towards (6,4) 28 Particularly when it’s over a couple of pounds (5,3)
31 Very worried, does get the tea stain out (2,1,5)
32 Also I see through the “liquorice-like taste” (7)
34 Remove the end bits when they select you for that job? (6) 35 “Hello, girl”, said the beast (5)
39 That shows it’s cold and I am about to go out (4)