JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS: ACROSS: CRYPTIC CLUES

8 Convinced it’s inevitable (7)

9 A fat insect? (9)

13 Revolted, had left one’s seat (5)

14 Move the teeniest bit (5)

15 Best satisfied when they fall sharply (7) 16 Suppress the anti - anti is wrong (7)

17 A quarrel when you take the new car for a drive (3-2)

18 Something you wear because you’ve always worn it? (5)

20 Not happy about, we gave the chop to (5)

22 Off one rushed, to the police (6)

23 The language could be French (6) 25 Drawing a box with a hole in it (7) 27 Play the part of the harbourman (7) 30 He’s on the watch for the Second Coming (6)

31 Show a film about partition? (6)

32 Has Dante heartlessly put into the inferno (5)

35 Could be Mr Right (5)

36 Declaim, though having nothing to complain about (5)

37 Why we don’t remember the men who struggled in Asia? (7)

39 A fight in the car ahead (7)

41 Tea at home, or one of the many restaurants? (5)

42 A well-known name in textile (5)

43 Plan that makes a surprise start to a rough game (9)

QUICK CLUES

8 Caretaker (7) 9 Arrogant (9) 13 Indian language (5) 14 Period of darkness (5) 15 Live together (7) 16 Eat (7) 17 Oily fruit (5) 18 Allude (5) 20 Unit of weight (5) 22 Very dirty (6) 23 Pang

(6) 25 Scorn (7) 27 Worship (7) 30 Monarch’s son (6) 31 Academy Awards (6) 32 Musical drama (5) 35 Inexpensive (5) 36 Weak (5) 37 Planet (7) 39 Small bet (7) 41 Big (5) 42 Playground item (5) 43 Relevant (9) 44 Issue (7) 44 Reading through “America At Large” (7)

1 Period in which the main issue appears (6)

2 Level with the post (8)

3 Where you had a trying time while shopping? (7,4)

4 It’s true the aunt passed away at ninetynine (9)

5 It’s wrong to hang on to someone’s pay (7)

6 Emphasised that it had been published (7,3)

7 For “15”, the top of the tree (4)

10 Jokes that create rifts (6)

11 For the present, having electricity (7) 12 Try to get the rent together, but it’s a pain! (6)

19 He robs from the ship as well (7)

21 Won’t bother about the hat stand with shelves (7)

24 Does it spray ink all over the place? (8,3) 26 Averted one’s gaze from, when refused admittance (6,4)

28 When the cars crashed, got bad chest abrasions (9)

29 Leaves out the R in “divers” (7)

30 Leave the TV unplugged (3,3) 32 Distributes about a thousand (5,3) 33 Has been worried, you know, and agitated (6)

34 Gosh! A mug for the drink! (7)

38 Yell “Be off!” grabbing the key (6) 40 Spoil a table (4)

DOWN: DOWN:

1 Big gun (6) 2 Derision (8) 3 Forgery (11) 4 Two weeks (9) 5 Spikes of ice (7) 6 Orderly retreat (10) 7 Pavement edge (4) 10 Young birds (6) 11 Base (7) 12 Deprive of food (6) 19 Adroitness (7) 21 Opening (7) 24 Miscellaneous items (4,3,4) 26 Behead (10) 28 Attacker (9) 29 Duck (7) 30 Appease (6) 32 Reverse (8) 33 Requite (6) 34 Insult (7) 38 Concord (6) 40 Second-hand (4)