WEE THINKER
Across
8 Lout never disposed to offer services for nothing (9) 9 A foot at the back (3) 10 Injured owl is to settle
on flat terrain (7) 11 Story about one returning
to Israeli port (5) 12 The sweet potato Amy
prepared (3) 14 Fair weather friend’s term
of address? (8) 17 Chairs the meeting before
joining the teams (8) 19 Lady never inside (3) 21 Finely cut way to walk
affectedly (5) 23 Was fond of embracing
mother energetically (4,3) 26 Just a little, thanks due
first (3) 27 Feature one in each herbal
remedy (9)
Down
1 Bewitching stare from no good looker? (4,3) 2 Key to soft radiance (4) 3 He used to live in Peru in a mountain cave (4) 4 Alter a line about daughter in introductory passage (4 2) 5 Longing to head off mass expulsion (4) 6 Speech of the average man (8) 7 Condition, say (5) 13 Stock Edward returned behind the yacht basin (8) 14 Mayday call from the Sargasso Sea (inits)(3) 15 Part of North Island belongs to him (3)
Across
16 Chief method to make progress (7) 18 Penny in new Indian or old Greek city (6) 20 It may turn out to be friendship (5) 22 Vessel used in a brewery (4) 24 Relatives take initial game with picture card (4) 25 Laugh at imitation (4) 29 Elevated road intersection (7) 31 Deep hole (3) 34 Married woman’s title (3) 36 Upright and rigid (5) 37 Ancient Egyptian ruler (7) 38 Tumbler’s edge (3) 39 Child’s plaything (3) 40 Document set out in tables and columns (11) Down 1 Military takeover (4) 2 Take it easy (4) 3 Place with a beach (7) 4 State positively (6) 5 Breakfast food (5) 6 Big jump (4) 7 Country road (4) 8 Steak shaped like a letter (1-4) 1 Fortune teller’s glass globe (7,4) 8 Part of the foot (3) 9 Part of the head (3) 11 Voucher permitting free travel (3,4) 12 Huge lifting machine (5) 13 ___ for, select (3) 14 Vegetable from a pod (3) 15 One who leaves his or her homeland for another (7) 17 Long period of time (3) 19 Compass direction opposite west (4) 21 Ship’s workforce (4) 23 Body parts we stand on (4) 25 Building plot (4) 27 Rough leaved tall tree (3) 10 Show a response, behave (5) 16 Plastic golf peg (3) 18 Perform on stage (3) 20 Gobbled up (3) 22 Football official (3) 24 Hair around the organ of sight (7) 25 Very good, delightful (5) 26 Jumped on one leg (6) 28 Overboiled (5) 30 Machine used for turning metal or wood (5) 32 Girl’s name or part of the eye (4) 33 Short term worker (4) 34 Close friend (4) 35 Underground part of a plant (4)