CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
9 It’s humiliating to be
ordered to alight (8)
10 The sun fish is tailless (3) 11 Pull a number backwards
and forwards (6)
12 She’s knocking drink back at
“The Galloping Nag” (6) 13 He’s coming down - for the
day! (7)
14 Nonsense! It’s almost too
quiet! (4)
15 A slight shake of the head in it will reveal something (4,1,5)
17 Pretend to be in front? How
could you! (3,5)
18 Means to get the daughter
into tennis-playing (7) 19 Bringing the guns back, he hopes to make a quick profit (4)
21 I met the crooked Denis in
prison (6)
24 Acknowledging one was wrong to have taken the seat? (8,9)
27 Concealed inside, the bird
did damage (6)
29 It would be prudent to read
the letters aloud (4) 30 Cocktail ingredients (7) 33 Making speed from the
stronghold (8)
35 Only second-hand goods,
but we’re used to that (7,3) 36 The front and the base (4) 37 Cold, in a Gallic sort of way
(7)
38 It takes an hour one way truly (6)
40 It’s sheer nonsense taking
time off (6)
41 I say! Look! (3)
42 Don’t notice that you can
see from above (8)
DOWN
1 Find out how many employees there are and how they’re voting (5,5)
2 Said it’s an irritation: the vet
can treat it (4)
3 Added up to, when one had carried the whole lot inside (8)
4 Acting the part of the Western traveller? (2,5) 5 Feminine lingerie - for the
junior miss (4,2,1,4)
6 Not many between three
and six (4,2,4)
7 Twig it’s not your own hair
(6)
8 Supposed to have been
overbold (8)
10 Hours at work that go very
quickly (5)
16 The reactionary I’d heard
about (3-4) 20 Signs of parasites (5) 22 Environment in which one’s
working as a hairdresser (7) 23 How you got both rattled
quickly? (2,3,6)
25 You’re soon going to get fed
up hearing it (6,4)
26 The blue area on the
weather map? (10)
28 Can I run into trouble working? (2,6)
31 Increase, breaking the hinge
(8)
32 Isn’t prepared to invest the lot, anyhow, in an English export (7)
34 To begin with, mother has to
provide food (6)
35 It would be simple to put
one in the hub (5) 39 Backing, put a pound on for
her (4)