DOUBLE CROSSWORD
EASY ACROSS 9 Dither (9)
10 Perfume spray (8)
12 Precipitation (4)
13 Short-sighted (6)
14 Rubbish (7)
15 Blast (9)
17 Plant container (9)
18 Drunk,
informally (7)
20 Injurious (6)
21 Indian garment (4)
24 Plentiful (8)
26 Spice (8)
28 Spoken (4)
29 Cricket sticks (6)
31 Severe (7)
34 Sleep-inducing (9)
36 Elated (4-1-4)
38 Diabolic (7)
39 Rubber (6)
40 Needlecase (4)
41 Fragile (8)
42 Inferior (5-4)
DOWN
1 Abroad (8)
2 Skimp (6)
3 Insect (8)
4 Fighting
implement (6)
5 Imaginary (8)
6 Harmonica (5,5)
7 Corsairs (7)
8 Parody (4-2)
11 Sure (7)
16 Rectangular (6)
19 Striped
mammal (5)
20 Encountered (3)
22 Approximately (5)
23 Fruit (6)
25 Synthetic (10)
26 Lettuce (3)
27 Own (7)
30 Fish (8)
31 Infirm (8)
32 Overturned (8)
33 Frenetic (7)
35 Golf club (6)
36 Talkative (6)
37 Expenditure (6)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
9 Is patronising with the pilot one’s helping
to land? (5,4)
10 Put in an order, as planned (8)
12 With nothing in it, a bag (4)
13 Very little work required to propel oneself
through the water (6)
14 Gains more favour as it becomes ever
bigger (5,2)
15 On buying such chickens, do you get a
cooker thrown in? (4-5)
17 Anyhow, he’s not given the trophy there
and then (2,3,4)
18 Definitely decide to settle your
differences? (7)
20 Happen to be starting on a new diet (6)
21 An accelerator pressed with the heel (4)
24 Besides, a bigger ferry would take it (8)
26 Getting too hot doing the housework (8)
28 Play the drunk in the film (4)
29 For the rogue, the end will be nigh (6)
31 Spurt from the sauce bottle (7)
34 Covering the point as he rewrites
the article (9)
36 What the osteopath is laughing at? (5,4)
38 First, force to cover for and
that’s wrong (7)
39 Deduce from the fish caught (6)
40 It’s not raining? Good! (4)
41 Was jabbed by a pin left lying carelessly
about? (4,4)
42 Wake, interrupting one’s sleep,
and check (9)
DOWN
1 Allow to represent (5,3)
2 Fish I am brought in to identify (6)
3 Keep on manoeuvring, once one has
backed in (8)
4 Turn over again (6)
5 Gets on – or pretends to (5,3)
6 Plan that came to you when lit up? (6,4)
7 Was curious about the work and foolishly
nosed about (7)
8 Relents when you allow to have
a drink (4,2)
11 Isn’t prepared for the roundabout ahead (2,5)
16 Wave from the person playing dice (6)
19 Support from the bank (5)
20 Decoration for the cake (3)
22 In an emergency situation, steal (5)
23 A fairly unimportant river runs
through it (6)
25 One who’s out for blood, on the
pitch? (7,3)
26 Key-ring with a key on it in the shape
of a fish (3)
27 Suppose it to be the
superstructure, myself (7)
30 Both promising and charming (8)
31 To put it in a nutshell, study, stupid! (8)
32 Gives you ten, to put out in the
cupboard (8)
33 For a star, performing has its difficulties (7)
35 I see a struggle right to the end, though
less arduous (6)
36 A tense “You’ve got it coming to you!” (6)
37 Start on the equipment I installed (6)