The BIG crossword

ACROSS

8 Say no more and concede it’s superficial (7)

9 Uncomfortable in someone else’s house? (3,2,4)

13 It indicates a f-fight (5)

14 The other is heartened by it (5)

15 Fruit bats (7)

16 Go ahead or go back to the page before (7)

17 Only reason, you say, for being in the red (5)

18 The top’s come off the seat? Rot! (5)

20 Shakes, with ice (5)

22 Promise to take part in (6)

23 Had tried to, as a son should (6)

25 Tot playing in a pen, in the home (7)

27 Is ready for walkies when one entices into mischief (5,2)

30 Work out why the swimsuit looks so good on (6)

31 Means business (6)

32 Earn, when you restore the good name of (5)

35 Terribly old, nearly all get accommodation (5)

36 Got up to “Are very big inside” (5)

37 Definitely the result of an imprecise bisection (7)

39 Changed to “Patched up at one point” (7)

41 At a loose end’s going to the mountains (5)

42 Our being in the hot sun for ages (5)

43 Not making such good time on the climb? (7,2)

44 Say how marvellous you are and stuff! (7)

DOWN

1 Get loaded and make accusations (6)

2 A fellow liking to flout authority would be perfect (8)

3 The get-up-and-go a sunny day gives you? (5,6)

4 Feel it will be approved of (2,7)

5 Mind! They’re made of glass! (7) 6 Speak your mind? (5,5)

7 A sign of love, to males (4)

10 Am soft on the female carrying the basket (6)

11 Wander onto the street, which is unusual (7)

12 Say it’s a cinch, in your hearing (6)

19 The blinking animal has disappeared (7)

21 Stopped to get the figure entered in the record (7)

24 Live frugally? Say personally that’s untrue (4,7)

26 Didn’t accept it should be muted (6,4)

28 Amusing or otherwise, he’s a dunce (9)

29 Means to get close: isn’t worried about (7)

30 Hesitate to change key, at first (6)

32 Getting the bug and becoming good at fishing (8)

33 Say they won’t reintegrate (6)

34 In pain, did stagger when walking (7)

38 Made to dissolve, ourselves, into fits of laughter? (6)

40 Tell, on getting the tip-off, a girl (4)