Giant Crossword

Across

9 I mete out sentence at just the right

moment (5,4)

10 No hunter in any way, but a fugitive (2,3,3)

12 The former, who should have been here by

now? (4)

13 Go out to get some more bread (6)

14 Having no pressing needs (3-4)

15 Nefarious activities carried out at night? (4,5)

17 Trapped while having a rest between

rounds (2,1,6)

18 Catch, then lets slip, which is irritating (7)

20 Get back, for instance, into the water (6)

21 Split when the vehicle overturns (4)

24 A note of whimsy? (8)

26 It’s obvious I must get myself some extra

money (8)

28 At the river, fish and swim (4)

29 How one went off down the ramp? (6)

31 The figure in the poster is slim (7)

34 Again the armed aircraft is protecting the

ship (9)

36 Is it something between a gust and a blast? (9)

38 She later didn’t have a place in which to

hide (7)

39 My love, that fifty per cent cut will create a

shortage (6)

40 Run on the spot! (4)

41 Is not organised by the people one speaks

of (8)

42 Beating, I learn, egg into the drink (6,3)

Down

1 Given all the facts and acted as locum for (6,2)

2 It won’t stop you reading it! (6)

3 Thoroughly apathetic – straight up! (8)

4 A note to the girl who’s falling down on the

job (6)

5 In case, having the bloke call on (8)

6 And, as the tide’s about to turn, clear the way

for (5,5)

7 Slim, not up to it, depended upon others (5,2)

8 On the trip to it, be faster than (6)

11 Terrible nit the girl is – really! (2,5)

16 Returning one day behind schedule, explain at

length (6)

19 Enveloping, again, the figure (5)

20 With “Don’t you believe it!” go off (3)

22 Intended to help me in (5)

23 Not those, in short, travelling round the

East (6) 25 Why the little blighter is shivering

in church? (4,6)

26 Not even rum? (3)

27 Claim of the journalists covering

it (7)

30 Taking part in the procession is

simply heaven! (8)

31 Yelling to mum on an excursion (8)

32 Saved by, you think, by the grass

surround (8)

33 Shake the stone it is hiding

inside (7)

35 One repeated the time (6)

36 Somebody one’s looking after for

a fee (6)

37 And I wandered in ahead for a

takeaway (6)