Giant Crossword

Across

9 Where all eyes are focused when the chess tournament is in motion (2,3,4)

10 Never included in the team that’s playing. Not I (2,2,4)

12 Location of which a great deal is heard (4)

13 When the audience comes in to see The Stones (6)

14 Now within reach of solving the riddle (7)

15 What Canute said to the ocean in some remote spot? (9)

17 Having fewer ties is really great (9)

18 Stops and prepares the draft? (5,2)

20 Giving a lime squash to a girl (6)

21 First class aviators in the services (4)

24 Be as good as and rise as high as (4,2,2)

26 Think the grass borders compensated for it (8)

28 More than on the other side (4)

29 All but the last, playing the doctor in (6)

31 A stand of a strange new sort is brought in (7)

34 Unhappy, urge to take action about (9)

36 Paid for having become violent (6,3)

38 Gets there to find the rosters on display (5,2)

39 Unexpected round-up Bart arranged (6)

40 It’s slightly open, which gives one a shock (4)

41 Hung about, making Nigel terribly embarrassed (8)

42 Informs one the cats will follow the girl (9)

Down

1 Better, all right (3,2,3)

2 Still juggles it in the juggling acts (6)

3 The cricketer who’s very keen to surpass the others? (4,4)

4 It’s one of twenty-six he leases (6)

5 Not too difficult as exams go and fair (8)

6 Having no tenants without jobs (10)

7 Deserts are sandy (7)

8 Run through to find the little devil having a drink (6)

11 Continue, on the quiet, to resist change (7)

16 Ring that used to be a lady’s (6)

19 Unaided by a sub, by all accounts (5)

20 Notice the hole and there’s a commotion (3)

22 Will exonerate: that’s evident (5)

23 Is prepared to stand by the English woman (6)

25 Europeans excluded - they’re quite different (5,5)

26 Don’t keep? Nonsense! (3)

27 Speculates as to whether they never cease? (7)

30 They’ve been on the staff a long time and are experienced (3,5)

31 Pose skating in the rink in a pastel shade (4,4)

32 You were lying when you said you were evaluating it (8)

33 Communication brought to me on the second green (7)

35 White was paid about fifty pounds (6)

36 A tail, perhaps, caught right in what should catch the head (6)

37 Don’t agree to a thing! (6)