DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS 9 Border (8)

10 Metal (3)

11 Resuscitate (6)

12 Pain (6)

13 Skin damage (7)

14 Average (4)

15 Tenacious (10)

17 Memento (8)

18 Grant (7)

19 Posted (4)

21 Advent (6)

24 Gave proof (9,8)

27 Footwear (6)

29 Extra (4)

30 Fragmentary (7)

33 Relayed (6,2)

35 Revelation (10)

36 Departed (4)

37 Repeat (7)

38 Certainly (6)

40 Stick (6)

41 Look at (3)

42 Vestment (8)

DOWN

1 Fed up (7,3)

2 Soon (4)

3 Unhealthy (8)

4 Swept (7)

5 Curious (11)

6 Marked (10)

7 Drive (6)

8 Dislike (8)

10 Principle (5)

16 Got (7)

20 Tree (5)

22 Servants (7)

23 Gambling game

(6,2,3)

25 Unwise (3-7)

26 Feel (10)

28 Snake (8)

31 Mine (8)

32 Defame (7)

34 Country (6)

35 Hang (5)

39 Blockhead (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

9 Be fond of sage, too (8)

10 In the cold and rain, a vehicle

appears (3)

11 The fur goes at the top, dear (6)

12 Tear in to put back and stumble (4,2)

13 Urge to get out of bed and

exercise (5-2)

14 Come back to settle in, but not for

good (4)

15 A rotten crew and they’re most

impolite (3,7)

17 Given a demotion, resign (4,4)

18 Young for the team (7)

19 Send from the office (4)

21 Tells one the way to train the rose

round it (6)

24 Waving a fan and behaving very

self-importantly (6,7,4)

27 A b .... good thing you have a dog! (6)

29 Unsheathe and turn to parry with (4)

30 Why a name is, perhaps, forgotten (7)

33 Asleep in one’s basket chair? (3,5)

35 Your informant at the zoo? (5,5)

36 Don’t go on to the snow cap (4)

37 Notes showers are on the way (7)

38 Take it you are willing to believe (6)

40 The new men do barge right in (6)

41 Understand you must quote the

letter (3)

42 Visited and made an appeal to (6,2)

DOWN

1 Regarding what you say, is not one of the

listeners (3-7)

2 Look up “subsistence” (4)

3 How much money the VIP has? (8)

4 Lets me wander quietly through the

buildings (7)

5 Employee of “The Shamrock Hair Salon”

who’s a pet? (5,6)

6 Broke the journey and didn’t go on again (7,3)

7 Feast that gets two pages in the food

magazine? (6)

8 There’s someone looking on again and he’s

critical (8)

10 In which the men try to prevent the mate

coming on board (5)

16 Reasons why it waggles and shifts about (7)

20 Ball game played to the letter (5)

22 Don’t stop. There’s a campaign in

progress (5,2)

23 A sermon delivered at Mount St.,

Mayfair? (4,7)

25 Something one’s been billed for that’s

missing (3,7)

26 Will post on behalf of? That’s

champion! (5,2,3)

28 The assumption is that now the potion’s been

mixed (8)

31 Not a sitter to win the title of “Efficiency

Queen”? (8)

32 Rushed to the boot to search it (7)

34 Either eavesdropped on the conversation or

knocked (6)

35 A mere semblance, as the chaps said (5)

39 Munch on a cold chop (4)