Giant Crossword

Across

9 Reveal that the day is near (8)

10 A back numbers issue (3)

11 Used one to turn left? (6)

12 To keep from talking, intern (4,2) 13 Wrecked when drunk (7)

14 Said having me around gives confidence (4) 15 How the blinking rocket was launched? (7,3) 17 Many a chap, should he be getting on in years (8)

18 Put the man’s name in red (7)

19 Tip you rely on (4)

21 Having alighted at the stop, create resentment (6)

24 Going through all the red lights is unprincipled (8,2,7)

27 And in ways still holds good (6) 29 Gathered I had returned for the thing (4) 30 The agent is working, to a degree, for the tycoon (7)

33 Only after one’s money and stuff (8)

35 It’s responsible for the hold-up on the line (7,3)

36 Frank is the one playing the piano inside (4) 37 Result of opening the exit doors? (7) 38 With rest and exercise, back in the pink (6) 40 Make certain, before the sun breaks through (6)

41 Plant – and you’ll wish you hadn’t (3) 42 One fated, perhaps, never to know the appeal of music (4,4)

Down

1 Where you have friends when your friends are mountaineers? (4,6)

2 Go away, small furry animal! (4) 3 Holding fifty, you contend, to be full (8) 4 Is over-working, at one point, in form (7) 5 To be, during production (2,3,6) 6 Learning, on coming upon unconscious (7,3) 7 Blow round to change the date to a later one (3,3)

8 Happened to have been round about autumn (8)

10 Club for the workers (5)

16 Lions prowling around Ireland for a cut of beef (7)

20 A tempo that’s fast (5)

22 TV programme Saturday begins with? (7)

23 The facts from a prison inmate? (6,5) 25 Disregarded, when one flew above (6,4) 26 Understand it will rock as one gets up speed (7,3) 28 Catching by knocking right inside (8)

31 Follower who has a bash at embracing her (8)

32 Then so terribly young, in all candour (7)

34 Put untidy clothes away, having a thing about it? (4-2)

35 It’s one spice of many, dear (5) 39 Stuffs with paper (4)