Giant Crossword

Across

9 The complaint about the sliced bacon is

going too far (1,3,5)

10 The main abode? (9)

12 Stash away in the cellar? (4)

13 Put a PS about the roundabout having been

very popular? (6)

14 The person disembarking from the boat (7)

15 Sombre information about the young French

wine (5,4)

17 With the exterior a write off don’t move (4,5)

18 The son went off and lumbered one with (7)

19 Improvised, which compensated for (4,2)

20 Consequently, you repeat, it is only fair (2-2)

23 Delicacy, father, and limberness are required

for it (9)

25 Went through the notes too quickly (9)

26 Curl up or flatten (4)

27 The lion’s running after a girl (6)

29 A seal about to lug off something floating in

the water (7)

32 He pesters Hill, the advisor (9)

34 There is the phone the tots were playing

with (2,3,4)

35 The note below says “To Wash” (7)

36 Got clear, or was caught (6)

37 The one that didn’t get on with you (4)

38 Not too young to be taught a lesson! (6,3)

39 Feeling out of sorts in your armchair and

Downuncomfortable? (3,2,4)

1 Having the ticket and the times of the

journeys (8)

2 One may be seen kissing others in the

hall (8,4)

3 Does it complain when the gardener pulls it

up? (8)

4 Goes round to get the garments (6)

5 Now revealed to have come out and been

followed (8)

6 With no reduction in the price – and fat it

is! (4,6)

7 They don’t worry the steeple jack – he has

bad sight (7)

8 Began to trade, perhaps, in beer (7,3)

11 Extravagant? Wrong again! (5)

16 Bringing back rice (about a pound) and a

cake (6)

19 In spring, is allowed to (3) 21 Leading, with the hurdle race

nearly over (3,4,5)

22 Wobbling for an instant (6)

23 To start with, be embarrassed by

the early enthusiasm (5,5)

24 An attempt to intimidate that

doesn’t work? (4,6)

25 Concede the point, on netting

it (3)

28 What is harder to explain is I

don’t know him (8)

29 Food in aspic? (3,5)

30 I need time to consider – switch

the light on (3,2,3)

31 Lures into trouble and one’s lad

is ruined (5,2)

33 ”Not even a collar”, you say (5)

34 Get in after tying up the boat (6)