Giant Crossword
Across
9 An irritating reminder of past
misdemeanours (4,5)
10 Even without exception, old-fashioned in
their views (3,6)
12 Go off with a table (4)
13 Running away to sea (6)
14 For the conveyance of goods, trains run to
time (7)
15 Handcraft? (4,5)
17 Have hallucinations of bubblings and
boilings? (3,6)
18 They’re refuse collectors, they add (7)
19 A male I mistake for a female (6)
20 Deliver without charge (4)
23 Don’t understand why you don’t grant
interviews (4,2,3)
25 Called for calm (9)
26 Thought to be perfect, though reduced by a
pound (4)
27 Mark has two keys, though they’re in short
supply (6)
29 Is a collector, one understands (7)
32 Was involved in and worried about (9) 34 Why the DIY enthusiast was reading on the
beach? (9)
35 Turn in the history books (7)
36 Continue to view, or to think of as (4,2) 37 Blue fluff (4)
38 A proviso as regards the physical fitness (9) 39 Triumphed over evil, Padre Turner did (9)
Down
1 Bob will show you the quick way (5,3) 2 Fighting in a beer hall? (6,6)
3 Breaks up when one removes the hoop? (8) 4 ”Industrial action” does ring a bell (6)
5 Points to the big S in “gifts” (8)
6 A refutation issued from home? (4,6)
7 Like the over-the-top fruit the drink was
made from? (7)
8 The date she had worked out from the
skull (6-4)
11 Hear he abandoned the child and that’s a
crime (5)
16 In that case mum has the heat switched on (6) 19 Possibly a diamond expert (3)
21 How the treatment is working if the patient
feels quite ill? (6,6)* 22 Continued and prevented one
from going to bed (4,2) 23 Likelihood there is that things will
be above board? (4,6)
24 A change of underwear for the
cricketer (4,6)
25 Rod and line, you say (3) 28 Suggesting the welfare money
goes in rent (8)
29 Having defected, is examined by (4,4)
Strain to convey one’s admiration to (8)
Standing one a beer outside
“The Orb and Sceptre”? (7) Turned out to be a fine material (5)
Having the mixture too wet is careless (6)
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