JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES 10

ACROSS: 9 Inside (8) Number (3)

11 Packet (6) 12 Mariner (6)

13 Struggle (7) 14 Seize (4)

15 Measure (10)

17 Strangle (8)

18 Mutinous (7)

19 Place (4)

21 Prying (6)

24 Venturing (6,4,7)

27 Behind (6)

29 Finished (4)

30 Imitation (7)

33 Concluded (8)

35 Ornamental light fitting (10)

36 Difficult (4)

37 Listless (7)

38 Decrease (6)

40 Bottle (6)

41 Child (3)

42 Flowering plant (8)

DOWN: 1 Forebear (10) 2 Expression (4) 3 Spice (8) 4 Warship (7) 5 Contest (11)

6 Look (10)

7 Intelligent (6)

8 Happened (8)

10 Commerce (5)

16 Thin, slow flow (7)

20 Prostrate (5)

22 Particular (7)

23 Inferior (11)

25 Casual (10)

26 Improbable (3-7)

28 Appropriate (8)

31 Roundabout (8)

32 Fish (7)

34 Blue dye (6)

35 Foreign nobleman (5)

39 Expensive (4)

ACROSS

9 To cut the bread, have to press on (4,4)

10 The knack of painting (3)

11 Admission and food provided (6)

12 Old Book found in an outhouse (6)

13 Plus ordering in one, myself, having a sudden urge to (7)

14 He¹s the tot playing with the ball (4)

15 Also forming part of the annex (2,8)

17 Rang at once and said how good it was (8)

18 He stole something from the kitchenware shop (7)

19 Catching a hard crack hurt (4)

21 Bears out that I have come in to cook (6)

24 Does one provide everything you could wish for in a light? (3,5,2,3,4)

27 Like best running about with the dog (6)

29 Drew level with, at the end of the game (4)

30 The cadet wrongly held he had been tricked (7)

33 He can’t decide if the drier should be spinning (8)

35 Weighs up and buys shares in (5,5)

36 “Stingy” is getting warm! (4)

37 Said to put the animal back outside (7)

38 Went off, as the revolver did (6)

40 “Navigational aids”, I put in, “for the flight” (6)

41 Catch that’s hard to hold! (3)

42 Foreigner Sean bumped into, running in (8)

DOWN

1 Exhibiting, when starting on one’s trip (7,3)

2 The river fish caught is not at all colourful (4)

3 Certain it will come back to me, I don’t know when (8)

4 Rude as a public servant wouldn’t be? (7)

5 Wherever things are happening, anyway (2,3,6)

6 Clean? You can say that again! (10)

7 At half past, to get bread and to take a walk (6)

8 On balance, not so fidgety (8)

10 A small jug, by the tree (5)

16 A writer? The heck he was! (7)

20 The end is imminent (5)

22 Very firm it’s an insect that can be tempted by an apple? (7)

23 Taken from the shop in its present form (4-7)

25 An undertaking requiring initiative? (10)

26 Lectured by pater about, longed to take refuge inside (8,2)

28 Before I lay in the after-dinner drink (8)

31 Wait a little, for the sea waves to engulf it (8)

32 At one point was fooling and lost control of the car (7)

34 A solitary individual among their milling number (6)

35 That’s all, kid – a pound (5)

39 Having contacted, spoke (4)