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-go-round? (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) *