Giant Crossword
Across
9 Angry, I meant somehow to get
through (2,1,6)
10 Didn’t take seriously a delay apt to cause
havoc (6,2)
12 Realised it had a novel sound (4)
13 It takes time to get to know one well (6)
14 If you really want to know about it, ask
cook! (7)
15 Having been parachuted down, visited (7,2) 17 Soon, at nine about, mother will enter (2,1,6) 18 So retirement in Capri turned out to be dull (7) 20 Stops talking in the intervals (6)
21 Figure it’s a bald patch in the animal’s coat (4) 24 A refusal to reply is not the solution (2,6) 26 ”Justifies a fight,” one storms (8)
28 Do the same and put a kiss on the top (4) 29 Jokes with the chaps (6)
31 In the shade of the tree, felt discontented (7) 34 Needed, was paged (6,3)
36 Only one side is quite as it should be (4,5) 38 With “Bother!” ran off to shelter inside from
the storm (7)
39 Will have it one’s exterior isn’t to be
renovated (6)
40 Are no longer as you and I are (4)
41 A memo about the tender (8)
42 With Leo, I had built myself a lovely
abode (5,4)
Down
1 Got better when given a lift (6,2)
2 Develop a liking for when you accompany
there (4,2)
3 The occasional cop’s raid eradicates it (8) 4 Had cropped up when an increment came
through (6)
5 Attack the old-fashioned means of
heating (4,4)
6 Brand is the tail-ender (4,6)
7 Say the soldiers got into trouble (7)
8 The tree I myself planted outside the club (6) 11 Is not wrong about its being yet to come (2,5) 16 Intends to take one through the steppes (6) 19 Circle the area with the bracing air (5) 20 Save soap (3)
22 How “decimal” is frequently defined in a
dictionary (5)
23 Mum, the agent has turned up the draught
regulator (6) 25 Fight that won’t stop you talking
to someone (3,2,5)
26 Had been the cutter-up (3) 27 Charms, to a degree, the
northerners (7)
30 Are they spreading disease
among cyclists? (8)
31 Fought back at first, trapped by
the tangled reeds (8)
32 Did come round at that point but
was indecisive (8)
33 Figure “Elaine” could be her
name (7)
35 Read “Running from one side to
the other is a pantry” (6)
36 He’s come home only this
minute (6)
37 Continues, as it happens (4,2)