CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 Going to give them a duck that’s in the oven, cooked (2,3,4) 10 Feeling moving (8) 12 “Disease,” with the seventh letter missing (4) 13 Notice, when you take another look at (6) 14 Something you didn’t polish off on your plate (7) 15 Accept a girl would be affronted by it (4,5) 17 Wearing on the track or when driving one’s new car (7,2) 18 The grassing is effective (7) 20 Relay from fathers to offspring (4,2) 21 One managed to hold water (4) 24 Obeyed the instructions and succeeded (8) 26 Having alighted from the coach out of view of the audience (8) 28 Row the better half and I got into (4) 29 Leant over and gave some money to (6) 31 Make out, when you minister to beforehand (7) 34 Equally convinced you’ll find out (9) 36 Can’t understand, when you miss it on TV (4,2,3) 38 Taken to against one’s will, it was slow and boring (7) 39 The cat trapped an insect in the shed (4-2) 40 Catch, we’re told, glimpses (4) 41 Clearly uneasy when you take fewer breaks (8) 42 Didn’t force to alight when one made a commotion (7,2)

DOWN

1 Don’t let that bother you - make a counterfeit bird! (6,2) 2 Hit by the second vehicle (6) 3 Have the bloke call for the wrapper (8) 4 When he leaves here, the girl gets slack (6) 5 Puts up with the drawback in working at sea (8) 6 By delaying, causing to lose one’s enjoyment of (7,3) 7 Did his cleaner mislead him? (7) 8 Concluding, on posting the second off (6) 11 Bright, is doing very well (7) 16 A few, admitted daily, troop about eagerly (6) 19 Big Leo has broken out and is at large (5) 20 On which to write letters home? (3) 22 Contend a rogue has nothing to lose (5) 23 Leave it as it is - again in the way (6) 25 Unhelpful answer to “How long must I queue?” (4,3,3) 26 The occasional one without a mate (3) 27 Leaves the shores (7) 30 Write a pack of lies and they punish one (8) 31 They train dogs (8) 32 Relish playing the nurse (8) 33 Gun fire explodes round the ship (7) 35 The car jerked and upset the boxes (6) 36 Is the currency English in that country? (6) 37 Be careful! That’s the girl I always take out! (6)