JUMBO CROSSWORD
QUICK CLUES ACROSS: 9 Vegetable (9)
10 Significant (9)
12 Foot part (4)
13 Zodiac sign (6)
14 Patent remedy (7)
15 Carried on (9)
17 Revealing strong feelings (9) 18 Immoderate (7)
19 Edible tuber (6)
20 Prepare for publication (4) 23 Finished (9)
25 Bought (9)
26 Hazard (4)
27 Despot (6)
29 Spartan (7)
32 At an advantageous time (9) 34 Arrogant (9)
35 Inquisitive (7)
36 Academy Awards (6)
37 On top of (4)
38 Favoured (9)
39 Abhorrent (9)
DOWN
1 Bloodbath (8)
2 Hairdressing accessory (7,5)
3 Particle (8)
4 At the rear of (6)
5 Careful and persevering (8)
6 News-manager (4,6)
7 Severe (7)
8 Aroused (10)
11 Pinny (5)
16 Conceptions of perfection (6) 19 Pea container (3)
21 Cutlery item (12)
22 Pure (6)
23 Duplicate (6,4)
24 Crèche (3,7)
25 Colliery (3)
28 Throat tissue (8)
29 Unusual (8)
30 Imperil (8) 31 Bent (7)
33 Money container (5) 34 Edible mollusc (6)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
9 Near in the clear – until tomorrow, that is! (9) 10 The train isn’t moving, or travelling (2,7)
12 My pet duck (4)
13 Pearls from somewhere in London (6)
14 Make it longer? That is a disappointment (7) 15 Had altered the piece about the wren and tit flying in (9)
17 On the subject of electricity – it’s happening again (9)
18 Getting late home through it, there¹s no future in such a job (4-3)
19 Does his cruelty make him unhappy at first? (6)
20 A lady-love in Oxford, perhaps (4)
23 Listens in for the true dummy run (9)
25 With the litigant who turns up, unfriendly all round (9)
26 Figure the time has come to name her (4)
27 Made one get into the car (6)
29 Meandered about, but didn’t go right inside (7)
32 Searched for when one fled, having stolen from (9)
34 Gave one’s views on the unrestricted sale of dogs (9)
35 What do I think of the vegetable? The stuffing’s good (7)
36 From choice, work? Not, I, silly! (6)
37 Having arrived an hour before (4)
38 When you eat sprouts, what tells you they’re
palatable (5,4)
39 Prudence that makes one buy food that won’t perish? (9)
DOWN
1 Caught a real streamer – a cold that’s going round (8)
2 A song and dance about the oppressiveness? (5,7)
3 Worried, tried to rouse people into action (8)
4 Endeavour to get a wrench (6)
5 Impeded by the deer – wild deer (8)
6 In every price range, come what may (2,3,5)
7 Beating that has an electrifying effect (7)
8 Pay for your little luxury from the kiosk? (5,5)
11 Stay by the sea (5)
16 Headgear for the snowman, with a white peak? (6)
19 A note, only, and that’s unfinished (3)
21 What made the bed collapse? (5,7)
22 Set free, though really bad (6)
23 Where those rocks that look like jagged teeth are? (5,5)
24 Getting supplies in, ready for Santa (8,2)
25 Cheated in the return, too (3)
28 The Hatter residence? (8)
29 Prevail over and turn us out to accommodate the doctor (8)
30 Mete out something you could do without? (8)
31 Taxi I get hold of, in case (7)
33 They’re hard catches (5)
34 Join and chat desultorily with at first (6)