JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Liveliness (9)

10 Remorse (9) 12 Team (4)

13 Scratch (6) 14 Building (7)

15 Dog (5,4)

17 Pharmacist (9)

18 Gem (7)

19 Uproar (6)

20 Section (4)

23 Corrected (9)

25 Derided (9)

26 Encounter (4)

27 Appeared (6)

29 Ship (7)

32 Clumsy (3-6)

34 Authorises (9)

35 Topsy-turvy (7)

36 Giantess (6)

37 Stalk (4)

38 Flexibility (9)

39 Holder (9)

DOWN: 1 Rubbed (8) 2 Nonsense (6-6) 3 Fish (8) 4 Risky (6) 5 Excellent (8)

6 Comprehend (10) 7 Endeavoured (7)

8 Famous (10)

11 Catches (5)

16 Tool (6)

19 Offer (3)

21 Vital (3-9)

22 Stress (6)

23 Tumbledown (10)

24 Sights (10)

25 Colour (3)

28 Lunatic asylum (8)

29 US prison (4,4)

30 Herb (8)

31 Songs (7)

33 Intended (5)

34 Tree (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 A lot to pack, moving home’s horrible (9)

10 Kept talking, to fluster the fellow (7,2)

12 Shot in rotation (4)

13 Panic when the key hidden in it is hard to find (6)

14 Fight and when Lew is groggy the interval intervenes (7)

15 Obsess you before you take up residence in (9)

17 Proved to have been switched off (6,3)

18 How the well-known restaurant said “Full” (7)

19 A large snake found in the garden shed? (6)

20 A branch or part of the trunk (4)

23 Smart to conceal the wad of notes if you’re walking (9)

25 Break down completely and the daughter is having mental treatment (9)

26 Play the high-flier (4)

27 An outlaw gang, it is (6)

29 There’s no telling if you can manage to keep them (7)

32 The steak is so under cooked, to start with (9)

34 A brilliant game (9)

35 A silly tune, but after the gunplay it’s soothing (7)

36 Decision about the lining? (6)

37 He’s to retire, starting tomorrow (4)

38 The animals are running, gosh, to the bushes! (9)

39 Having rescued, brought home to one (9)

DOWN

1 Pops back to the home in a state of great excitement (4,4)

2 If it’s successful, you may have to part again! (4,8)

3 Deduce, as you wind it up (8)

4 Almost a quarter premature (6)

5 Stopped for a stop-light the others went through (8)

6 Terrible waste; a free dress and she wears uniform (10)

7 It’s not the same when let out, the jacket, dear, is spoiled (7)

8 No good as a drum, or second to none! (10)

11 The same day, it gets to (5)

16 A clot to mix black in with the blue (6)

19 For the record, what you saw after you fell (3)

21 Informed to have been among those shot (2,3,7)

22 It’s lucky her son’s wearing the kilt! (6)

23 In a class of one’s own? (4-6)

24 Also forming part of the supplement (2,8)

25 A girl’s name in Morse code? (3)

28 About first gear, make one feel very unhappy (8)

29 Without a word about the network – foolish (8)

30 I dress to go out and get the prescribed medication (8)

31 Penetrated that one had enrolled in (7)

33 Goaded one, popping in a terribly rude note (5)

34 When up, getting the boys some things to eat (6)