JUMBO CROSSWORD
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS: 8 Teller (7)
9 Shopkeepers (9)
13 Bring upon oneself (5)
14 Contort (5)
15 Hurricane (7)
16 Whaling spear (7)
17 Social blunder (5)
18 Mosquito-like insect (5)
20 Danger (5)
22 Floor (6)
23 Fold (6)
25 Bird (7)
27 Respire (7)
30 Highly seasoned sausage (6)
31 Stay (6)
32 Form (5)
35 Extremely fat (5)
36 Soil (5)
37 Injurious (7)
39 Shade of red (7)
41 Gardening implement (5)
42 Meat in rashers (5)
43 Strict (9)
44 Rout (7)
DOWN
1 Crockery item (6)
2 Fuel (8)
3 Bookmaker’s (7,4)
4 Put right (9)
5 Short axe (7)
6 Police van (5,5)
7 Threesome (4)
10 Accident (6)
11 Realm (7)
12 Harsh (6)
19 Greek currency unit (7)
21 Drive back (7)
24 Chips (6,5)
26 Baby’s outfit (6,4)
28 Rebuke (9)
29 Nuts (7)
30 Sit droopily (6)
32 Of the brain (8)
33 Noiseless (6)
34 Adolescent (7)
38 Inconstant (6)
40 A jot (4)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS: 8 I have a ball and Rufus is running about like mad (7)
9 How many had noticed what happened inside? (9)
13 The singer with the French name (5)
14 The baronet finally got back his voice (5)
15 Where, in the book, the fellow had a half of bitter (7)
16 Broken into with soldiers guarding it, you say (7)
17 Having taken off, is in Reno, nothing less! (5) 18 Relish making the air hole (5)
20 Man you don’t cotton to? (5)
22 Considered going into action myself (6)
23 Deviates and supports the right in it (6)
25 Attribute to, when you write (3,4)
27 Understand the attendant is responsible for the leak (7)
30 Last, or final, turnabout (6)
31 Buy back, to get into your good books again (6)
32 Mean to a girl (5)
35 Such a disposition as Ray has? (5)
36 Divert to a narrow road, it is announced (5) 37 Disagree as to the consequence of the nuclear explosion (4,3)
39 Makes a comeback and profits from it (7)
41 An earlier performance, right? (5)
42 The ones that involved one in the racket (5)
43 Grandfather’s game? (5,4)
44 After the fellow had hesitated, modified it (7) DOWN: 1 For the dog, cooking meat (6)
2 In the same way that you are keen on sage (8) 3 Reducing the felling (7,4)
4 Unhappy about having to urge into action (9) 5 Going down on one’s family tree (7)
6 Getting out of bed immediately – honestly (8,2)
7 Either port or a punch (4)
10 Gets out from the bottom of the trunks (6)
11 So that it may be tidy (2,5)
12 Suffers burns (6)
19 Rock, upturned, the animals secreted food in (7)
21 Attack in the circular? (5,2)
24 A French murderess? (5,6)
26 Balancing soot on the door to fall on you coming in? (5,5)
28 It is said the duet was composed in answer to it (9)
29 The usual kinds – large (7)
30 Make certain of getting in before sunset (6) 32 Just as brief as before? Not any more! (2,6) 33 Am to break, then, into song (6)
34 Trip in the corridor (7)
38 He is, from the rain, sheltering under a tree (6)
40 It’s up to, to cultivate (4)