JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Signature (9) 10 Impeded (8) 12 Post (4) 13 Irritated (6)

14 Slowish (7) 15 Tourist (9)

17 Eddy (9) 18 Unaffected (7)

20 Unexpected (6)

21 Singer (4)

24 Lined (8)

26 Upset (8)

28 Dance (4)

29 Motive (6)

31 Excellent (7)

34 Gathered (9)

36 Bleak (9)

38 Chorus (7)

39 Characteristics (6)

40 Drop (4)

41 Guard (8)

42 Silly (9)

DOWN: 1 Cheese (8) 2 Twine (6)

3 Flower (8) 4 Shake (6)

5 Followed (8) 6 Disquiet (10)

7 Willingly (7) 8 Shed (4-2)

11 Understand (7)

16 Crowd (6)

19 Number (5)

20 Unhappy (3)

22 Advantage (5)

23 Correct (6)

25 Officer (10)

26 Noise (3)

27 Get (7)

30 Primly (8)

31 Swindling (8)

32 Apathetic (8)

33 Leaves (7)

35 Raised (6)

36 Rough (6)

37 Rubber (6)

ACROSS: 9 Grumpiness as a result of some funny ailment? (3,6)

10 Timer at the ready, giving a warning (5,3)

12 Pass the cockney as well (4)

13 Look at the big end, man! (6)

14 Think the world of the child – the heirs are worried (7)

15 Quietly having tea in the shade (5,4)

17 Not having a score is silly (9)

18 Agreed everything in the diet is wrong (7)

20 Put electricity in, but make you pay for it (6)

21 Move to the outskirts (4)

24 Streaked on the street, naked (8)

26 Having added a couple of pages, finished it off (8)

28 Concedes, at three points to nil (4)

29 Asked in, the man did unbend (6)

31 Did his cleaner make it all up? (7)

34 Gloomy about – is the second sacking (9)

36 They’ll reach the top first – in seconds (7-2)

38 Say yes, the son chucked money around (7)

39 Cut the key a shade inaccurately (6)

40 It will have to be consulted before changing course (4)

41 Put a limit on again, getting tough (8)

42 Managed to circumvent, as one travelled a lot (3,6)

DOWN: 1 Getting drunk, see as the best part (4,4)

2 She has now returned to the valley (6)

3 Caught a cold and real trouble set in (8)

4 In the end, do your best to ring (6)

5 A pest crawling round the little flower (8)

6 Defending the robbery at gunpoint (8-2)

7 Attempts to frighten the soldier that’s guarding (7)

8 “As a flute-player”, I put in, “is useless” (6)

11 Subdue with a cold “Hurry up!” (7)

16 Bought a supply of, to be used as nests (4,2)

19 Figure the anti-revolutionary is not English (5)

20 The house maid, Mai, went off to get fish (3)

22 Go on and on about how you’ll make a home in? (5)

23 Protected by a cabinet, as a precaution (2,4)

25 The plant you put in a pot I prepared outside (10)

26 So I’m building a mansion with her (3)

27 Behave yourself when you act as guide (7)

30 About fifty are sighted flying, which makes one happy (8)

31 Satisfies the constituents (8)

32 Explains in detail about being out of money (8)

33 For myself and the horse, brought out something to eat (7)

35 A melon requires heat and moisture (6)

36 Point the rule out when you abdicate (6)

37 Intensify when there’s an invitation to board (4,2)