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JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES ACROSS: 9 Alternatively (9) 10 Friendly (8) 12 Extremely (4) 13 Abhorrence (6) 14 Ahead (2,5) 15 Fruit (9)

17 Vegetable (9)

18 Sanction (7)

20 Excellent (6)

21 Sadly (4)

24 Avoid (8)

26 Aversion (8)

28 Regretted (4)

29 Jeer at (6)

31 Claim (7)

34 Unwise (9)

36 Perfect (9)

38 Country (7)

39 Tidily (6)

40 Work (4)

41 Cherish (8)

42 Sack (9)

DOWN: 1 Talk (8) 2 Refrain (6) 3 Dissent (8) 4 Reveal (6) 5 Disadvantage (8)

6 Absurd (10) 7 Corridor (7) 8 Nearly (6) 11 Free (7)

16 Frontier (6)

19 Campaign (5)

20 Knock (3)

22 Limber (5)

23 Wood (6)

25 Huge (10)

26 Owing (3)

27 Cargo (7)

30 Meant (8)

31 Stupid (8)

32 Calamity (8)

33 Fugitive (7)

35 Trifling (6)

36 Impostors (6)

37 Proficient (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Definitely that crooked Simon is on the take (2,7) 10 Moving while I cannot move: I am hemmed in (2,6)

12 The plainsman’s home? (4)

13 Have boobs, on backward students (4,2)

14 To understand it, you must have a feeling for words (7)

15 Would it provide stock for alphabet soup? (9)

17 Gave one’s girlfriend the air? (9)

18 Henry and I only have fish (7)

20 How to perforate it thoroughly is the question (6)

21 In that case the hand had got lost (4)

24 To begin with, was first to appear frightened (8)

26 Observe closely that you give the right points to (4,4)

28 Concluded it’s to do with (4)

29 Stated a number had not paid up (6)

31 Had turned and left (4,3)

34 Shortened to “Got the dog and followed” (9)

36 Let one have it – was generous with money (6,3)

38 What made the snake stop when crossing the road? (7) 39 All panicking about the escape: a killer (6)

40 Dismiss a “Something the insurance policy will cover” (4) 41 With charm at last, I melted the fellow (8)

42 Clear at this point it’s a song (4,5)

DOWN: 1 How quickly you realised you’d been photographed? (2,1,5) 2 Tell them I am taking the role (6)

3 Gets everybody in the Scout movement to stop working? (5,3)

4 Building let out and occupied by an English politician (6)

5 Having a mind to, get rid of (8)

6 Who’s got the hot milk? (3,7)

7 Puts great pressure on clasps (7)

8 Worked until I got to the forefront (6)

11 Shut up and break in to get the jewellery (7)

16 Very keen not to allow into the Australian port (6)

19 Able to stretch to it and he will have fifty over (5)

20 What the fisherman is armed with? (3)

22 What the devil said when you rang his phone number? (5)

23 Wind round the base of the log, causing pain (6)

25 A wonderful epoch in which to have a ball (6,4)

26 Mother stands up, fuming (3)

27 A cop wrapped the child going out in a warm garment (7)

30 Going off to the west, walking in an ungainly way (8)

31 Order me a gross of the finest texture (8)

32 Including a number fated to be made ready for market (8)

33 In Los Angeles a Spanish girl caught the disease (7)

35 Does it tear as it cuts? (6)

36 Pretends, when one allows to board (4,2)

37 Show a tree by a river (6)

OPINION

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