GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

9 The main fight (3,6)

10 He subdues his pride (4,5)

12 Do the same with the ten on top (4)

13 Trouble from scratch (6)

14 Get your money on "Half-back" early (7)

15 Show promise as a sculptor? (5,4) 17 Utter the words "Never again" --and I quite understand (3,2,4) 18 By midmorning there's plenty of food (7)

19 Quickly makes and smuggles aloft (4,2)

20 An impudent young girl with a piece of paper (4)

23 Leaves on the toboggan? (5,4) 25 Go one by one on the merry-goround? (4,5)

26 Puts on airs (4)

27 The "in" type of party to have? (2-4)

29 Having laid hands on, at breakfast gave food to (7)

32 Are even in the right enclosure and that doesn't often happen (4,5)

34 How one is, after a vain blackberrying expedition? (9) 35 He's spouting bilge, right? (7) 36 Make someone do you a favour (6)

37 Be holding it and get a nip from (4)

38 Did something when someone stole the ladder? (4,5)

39 About to see something you've missed (9)

DOWN

1 Two dopes and a smart killer (8) 2 By which the motion was carried in the nudist colony? (4,8) 3 Labels with small hearts on them? (8)

4 It's a mere triviality, but remove the shadow (6)

5 Wears when one goes to bed and gets up late (6,2)

6 It's a fish from somewhere in India, love (6,4)

7 Where the journey starts --- to jail? (7)

8 View of America given by the brochure (10)

11 Am hemmed in by a mob dancing an exotic dance (5)

16 Join up with Len Turner first (6) 19 Catch in the light (3) 21 Bitterness about the rough frisking? (4,8)

22 Not, you say, a winding passage (6)

23 Only corrects to "Exclusive control" (4,6)

24 From the water, we found out it's raining (3,7)

25 Stand a drink, so to speak (3) 28 Shed when you go into the river (8)

29 Gets comfortable, arms back and legs folded (8)

30 "Sweets put weight on" is the comeback! (8)

31 Free about fifty with no trouble (7) 33 He has nothing to add to the list (5)

34 The chap dropped round at the beginning of the week (6)