CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS: 8 Twist (7) Particularly (9) 13 Tree (5) 14 Lesser (5) 15 Income (7) 16 Friendly (7) 17 Crop up (5)

18 Fair (5)

20 Object (5)

22 Discharge (6)

23 Previous (6)

25 Game (7)

27 Fraternise (7)

30 Deadly (6)

31 Each (6)

32 Musician (5)

35 Prim (5)

36 Material (5)

37 Told (7)

39 Calls on (5,2)

41 Claw (5)

42 Oily fruit (5)

43 Zoo (9)

44 Expand (7)

DOWN: 1 Metal (6) 2 Status (8)

3 Shakily (11) 4 Evaluation (9) 5 Red (7) 6 Wonderful (10) 7 Scheme (4)

10 Talisman (6)

11 Involves (7)

12 Communication (6)

19 Sweet (7)

21 Lassitude (7)

24 Many-seeded fruit (11)

26 Biscuit (6,4)

28 Relate (9)

29 Willingly (7)

30 Finally (6)

32 Jumper (8)

33 Blush (6)

34 Bung (7)

38 Spasm (6)

40 Above (4)

ACROSS

8 Feast at which the candles won’t stay alight? (7)

9 What the robot’s jumper was made of? (5,4)

13 It’s dawn when you get off (5)

14 Instruct to provide transport (5)

15 It’s shaky and getting a lot more shaky (7)

16 The room, you know, is pine-lined (7)

17 Walk I take through an Italian city (5)

18 The result is, you institute legal proceedings (5)

20 Says sadly and audibly “The proportions!” (5)

22 Three months free (6)

23 See the one left inside is ruined (6)

25 In a great hurry to take refreshment round (7)

27 Call out “Rue goes into the nostrum” (4-3)

30 Take the reins on reaching male adulthood (6)

31 Contrived a tail-wag, which does amuse you (6)

32 Walkabout taken by the father (5)

35 It will quickly tell you if the cooking’s not very good (5)

36 Beginning with one’s off-time (5)

37 The person alluded to as “The arbiter” (7)

39 An undercooked portion of something savoury (7)

Check the key in, as a rule (5)

A bird and it’s after seed (5)

For fun I tease and get terribly irate – make really angry (9)

The scoundrel with the collar – the Scotsman 41 42 43

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QUICK CLUES 9

DOWN

1 See the figure in it is slim (6)

2 Changes the locks (8)

3 A predatory air (7,4)

4 Travelling by train, out to catch the one ten, somehow (9)

5 Where, in London, you can get a gun within a day (4,3)

6 Perhaps a caramel tart, darling? (7,3)

7 On that account, see alone (4)

10 Quenches one’s thirst with a lot of water on board (6)

11 Like the hens prepared for deep-frying? (7)

12 Clandestine, it is again revealed in court (6)

19 Allowed to fall ill, one rushed round (7)

21 Rested at long last, one gathered (7)

24 Flattering the person you’ve just been toasting? (9,2)

26 Accurate in regard to the order (5,5)

28 Number one, assess as excellent (5-4)

29 Bound to be a someone I’m not naming (7)

30 Only the silver lining is rather scanty (6)

32 What passengers do in the smoking compartment of the train? (4-4)

33 They happen to get sent off at a quarter to five (6)

34 Suppress it? No, I can’t possibly (7)

38 Given stuff to nibble on, as before (6)

40 A call from the mob? (4)