Giant Crossword

Across

8 Argued the cricketer must be seen in action (7)

9 When you’re being formal, do (9)

13 Turn the small mug round (5)

14 Am to blame for bringing back from N. Italy (5) 15 Make up for having overcharged? (7) 16 Say to the chaps to turn it over (7)

17 Gets level with and produces the gun (5) 18 The police break it open (5)

20 A bit quiet; embarrassed (5)

22 Give way and shut up (6)

23 To show in, I even produced a key (6) 25 Old soldier his superior officers discharge? (7) 27 Don’t stop to make a fuss about (5,2) 30 Had I not trained myself to be never late (2,4)

31 He waded, foolishly, right in (6)

32 Has an impact on that leaves a lasting impression (5)

35 Determine what the joint share-out will be (5) 36 Sound one out when one’s come in (5) 37 Took a time, being dead beat, to get dressed (7)

39 The balance of the new rise unpaid as yet (7) 41 Just a second – hang on! Don’t be so miserly! (5)

42 Will sycophants who do so get nowhere fast? (5)

43 One you fiddle with to open and close? (3,6) 44 One way or another, ring me during the performance (7)

Down

1 Get out of calling (6)

2 It was shivering in the end. That’s what made it cold (4,4)

3 Not revealing that one’s slowing the progress of (7,4)

4 Book in a restaurant that’s accessible (3-2-4) 5 Are rearranging the roster – he’s not imagining it (7)

6 What makes you so hot on acting? (5,5) 7 Thunder ‘Run away!’ (4)

10 Gets out the remnants left standing (6) 11 Make a coloured holster for the gun (7) 12 That blessed thing! (6)

19 In need of a tonic, you find (3,4) 21 Bird table with a hole in it (7) 24 Found, when one engaged staff (4,5,2)

26 Be no longer boiling about, though still in a stew? (6,4) 28 Opening the door to a day job (9) 29 Say when inside we had lost our resolve (7) 30 Happens to have upset the house dogs (6)

32 Noticed when one was playing the sleuth? (8)

33 Lumber from the seat (6) 34 Shakily insert the N in ‘imprisons’ (7)

38 An inducement to use your head (6)

40 Still try (4)