GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
9 Be peeved when the eels are put in the van (4,4) 10 Would you be sorry to find it in your garden? (3) 11 The cockney was sick and the weather was wintry (6) 12 Marks it "Collectors' items" (6) 13 What started the fire at sea? (7) 14 Puts the phonetic pronunciation of "idle" (4) 15 Be patient and share my burden (4,4,2) 17 All, I bet, very worried (5,3) 18 Toyed with or succumbed to the temptation to swindle (7) 19 On the roads does it cut in, half the time? (4) 21 Moves in with the chest, taking a little time off (6) 24 Came up to scratch as a roundsman? (9,3,5) 27 Drink after drink (6) 29 Someone drawing rank (4) 30 Came blithely in like a breath of fresh air? (7) 33 Unhappily, there's little in do-ityourself (8) 35 To start with, regard as a duty (5,5) 36 Drink and get fired (4) 37 Having putted round again, reached greater heights (7) 38 Yell desperately on being locked inside, desolate (6) 40 Show always to back a certain number (6) 41 In practice, Rod came round and wakened one up (3) 42 To put it briefly, not for the stupid (8)
DOWN
1 A break for the others, full stop (4,6) 2 The best tree in the orchard (4) 3 Plan to be used with the person I have broken with (8) 4 Why so terribly late coming in? That's rich! (7) 5 Suddenly believe --- you will get out of the tunnel? (3,3,5) 6 Cutting it down to the one word "fat" (10) 7 Put in the wrong place and lose? (6) 8 Gossamer thin? Excellent (4,4) 10 Scamp is unlike the others of his breed (5) 16 Annoys one day after day going through the questions (7) 20 Go off and leave you thoroughly confused (5) 22 From the new char poor Leo caught the disease (7) 23 Rotten in the role of the good-looking baddie? (6,5) 25 How much is known about the mysterious miniature? (4,6) 26 Surprised by there not being an address? (10) 28 Increase the number the bird is carrying (8) 31 How good, but rather frightening, the story was? (8) 32 Make for, having miscued (7) 34 An affair that does have importance (6) 35 One of the services might (5) 39 Want to return home, having the key to get in (4)