CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Arrive bearing a new lip make
up (7)
9 Thought to be spirit I’d
poured neat into (9)
13 An invention brought in by a
foreigner (5)
14 No good at all in the point-topoint (5)
15 Father’s got the makings of a
true bacteriologist (7) 16 Digging for gold, set a trap in
(7)
17 Utter lady, the Queen (5) 18 Was very fond of the odd ramble, round about half term (5)
20 A mutt caught in cheating
(5)
22 Inordinately, over and over
again (3-3)
23 States a quarter are opposed
to it (6)
25 Where you land a good right
and then a left (7)
27 A gun holster? (3-4)
30 Grits one’s teeth and smiles
when the day is through (6) 31 Round the hole the small
runners race (6)
32 Quick to attack the soft
heart (5)
35 The car flattens it (5) 36 Open at the above time (5) 37 Understand it’s safe to carry
a gun with it (5,2)
39 Divers are always covered in
salt (7)
41 For her, it’s hard to turn
round inside (5)
42 Send the pinger back (5) 43 On the subject of viewing
(9)
44 Either hides or allows the
public to see (7)
DOWN
1 Did the same when the fish
pie came in (6)
2 Such a pace as the smack
travels at? (8)
3 A good beginning for the
fledgling? (6,5)
4 Later, when the hornet flies
onto the coat (7,2)
5 They bite, kiddies! (7) 6 Ignored the past-its-prime
port (6,4)
7 At this point we’re told to
listen (4)
10 Came by, or was given, a
name (6)
11 In the oven cut up, sir, melting, or rendering (7)
12 Seem affronted by ‘The British are slackers’ (6) 19 Arrives after the act, to have
a drink (5,2)
21 First I took Latin - I got
ploughed (7)
24 How you could tell straightaway someone was irritated? (4,7)
26 Ordinary or extraordinary speed at which a train moves (10)
28 An inky finger mark on the
drawing? (9)
29 Intend, also, to get into the
group (7)
30 In return I tease mum for
looking gaudy (6) 32 Answered that it’s wrong to
have a grass border (8) 33 Give to the girl-friend on
entering (6)
34 Bump into the daughter taking the dog out (7)
38 To put the fellow in the shade
would be kind (6)
40 Regard as a selling point for
the estate agent (4)