Giant Crossword
Across
8 Depict a sinister man (7)
9 Don’t know where the tot’s got to (4,5)
13 Admit everything and cry afterwards (5)
14 Back out, lady! (5)
15 Bet on and it will be slow (7)
16 A tear? (3,4)
17 Deduce the fire had spread round about
mid-evening (5)
18 To avoid a duel, escaped to the East (5)
20 Nauseates one when it goes off (5)
22 It’s lucky the animal is in that end (6)
23 Say it’s a cinch, for all to hear (6)
25 Does misuse one’s power, going in to get rid
of (7)
27 Renovation to the church Agnes works at (7) 30 It’s bright and cold and you get up only with
difficulty (6)
31 Is no good. Refuses to act (4,2)
32 Suits the patients (5)
35 Name the bird Leo, nothing less! (5)
36 Are, from the first (5)
37 Pet with a hard master training it (7)
39 Open at lunch, unusually (7)
41 The one in Greece is beyond hope (5)
42 Stop, say, for a rest (5)
43 Cast loose in a raft-tide’s going out (3,6)
44 Make-up mother’s used to conceal a
blemish (7)
Down
1 Pass over the trumped-up story of the dog (6)
2 They’ll wait until you disembark (8)
3 “The voice is good but almost
inaudible”? (5,6)
4 So fear not. There will be changes in a little
while (4,5)
5 Fixes while the salesperson looks on (7)
6 Adequate grounds for becoming a
philosopher (4,6)
7 Soon as there’s a vacancy, a girl is sent
round (4)
10 Shut up at the inside: that’s clear (6)
11 As opposed to that French piece the
dealer’s priced highly (7)
12 Dump waste (6)
19 The instruction to be economical is falling on
deaf ears (7)
21 Tear I am to mend in the clothing (7) 24 A little while ago they got the
road in dug up (3,5,3)
26 Now give me a little time (7,3)
28 Succeeding in falling while
riding (6,3)
29 Saying, on turning it round, it is
covered in flies (7)
30 Though a natural for, is
eliminated (3,3)
32 Answer the invitation to
return (4,4)
33 Run into when you go out (6)
34 Instrument for the one-man band
that makes a squawky noise? (7) 38 Whose did he get incarcerated in
stir wrongly? (6)
40 Told a story to music (4)