JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES 10

ACROSS: 9 Memento (8) Also (3)

11 Use (6) 12 Chap (6) 13 Scratches (7)

14 Constantly (4)

15 Bad luck (10)

17 Offered (8)

18 Travesty (7)

19 Run (4)

21 Fight (6)

24 Curing (9,2,6)

27 Girl (6)

29 Team (4)

30 Mends (7)

33 Sleeping car (5-3)

35 Menaced (10)

36 Harbour (4)

37 Forced (7)

38 Interior (6)

40 Inform (6)

41 Ready (3)

42 Pay (5,3)

DOWN: 1 Coquettish (4-6) 2 Shape (4) 3 Responded (8) 4 Exercise (5-2)

5 Contest (11) 6 Inexpensive (10)

7 Each (6)

8 Augur (8)

10 Number (5)

16 Woods (7)

20 Stiff (5)

22 Cultivation (7)

23 Throughout (5,2,4)

25 Missed (10)

26 Appalling (10)

28 Snake (8)

31 Scrutinised (8)

32 Puritanical (7)

34 Get (6)

35 Tipsy (5)

39 Material (4)

ACROSS

9 Why you need proof, of course (2,2,4)

10 Like hard wood (3)

11 Taking one child to the concert (6)

12 Steal away to have a drink (6)

13 Concealing the old crack was responsible for the disaster (7)

14 Make your mark in a very short time (4)

15 Be first, perhaps, to last the person one can most depend on (4,6)

17 Foreigner set on and beaten up by a Scotsman (8)

18 Asks the sea to recede and the sand to swirl (7)

19 See it’s an awkward situation (4)

21 Show an outdated attitude (6)

24 An average person - not some stay-at-home woman! (3,3,2,3,6)

27 Get the girl in to identify the bird (6)

29 The gentleman with the spectacles inside is a N. African (4)

30 Getting the cover back on, lady, is the problem (7)

33 Fleeing, then, or escaping, unfollowed (2,3,3)

35 Where one searched for the fellow suffering from alcoholic depression? (4,3,3)

36 Shot that gives you quite a shock (4)

37 It gives little testimony to the pastry cook’s skill (7)

38 He sings three times (6)

40 A hoot and a cry of fear (6) 41

42

DOWN

1 Having to be paid for, though somewhere else (3,7)

2 Stand to produce (4)

3 The number spoken was mumbled (8)

4 Carrying the alarm - it’s very light (7)

5 Hide in Oxford (4,7)

6 The way in which so many of us travel (4,6)

7 Know it takes time to get through to a young thing (6)

8 Going to Pat’s house in winter clothes (3,5)

10 For the prize draw, a stand (5)

16 With the swap in train, Ed returned (5-2)

20 Getting the ball, I have a knock up in the yard (5)

22 Make out, as before, you’ll minister to (7)

23 A rock band (7,4)

25 A while later, on leaving prison (5,1,4)

26 Silly behaviour with which to bamboozle the cat? (10)

28 Speak the name, giving weight to it (8)

31 Can I turn it on, somehow, to get it working? (2,6)

32 When it gets jammed in an entrance, worry (7)

34 Watch the woman holding the nutcracker (6)

35 Left in “pious,” it being in keeping with Christmas (5)

39 Flat number seventeen it’s installed in (4)

No sound from the stable is heard (3)

A story we rewrote and how long it took (3,5)