JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 8 Tiredness (7) 9 Arriving (7,2) 13 Vagrant (5) 14 Minimum (5)

15 Gift (7) 16 Aloofness (7)

17 Cut (5) 18 Separate (5)

20 Evade (5)

22 Deliver (6)

23 Boat (6)

25 Herb (7)

27 Prepared (7)

30 Tool (6)

31 Select (6)

32 Less (5)

35 Redress (5)

36 Lukewarm (5)

37 Anger (7)

39 Tout (7)

41 Jumped (5)

42 Letter (5)

43 Notability (9)

44 Tooth (7)

DOWN: 1 Chivvy (6) 2 Scatter (8)

3 Dog (4,7) 4 Flower (9)

5 Fish (7) 6 Comprehend (10)

7 Certain (4) 10 Kept (6)

11 Body (7)

12 Sew (6)

19 Light (7)

21 Sketch (7)

24 Liqueur (11)

26 Glasses (10)

28 Sausage (9)

29 Friendly (7)

30 Red (6)

32 Shoe (8)

33 Boil (6)

34 Height (7)

38 People (6)

40 Dregs (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS: 8 Happening to be making one’s entrance on stage (5,2) 9 How many thieves were there? My dear, a score! (5,4)

13 Sounds made by bands (5)

14 Yours has the with-it lining (5)

15 The key question is what to cook on (7)

16 First to go in, make a bloomer (7)

17 Walk on the right, too (5)

18 Instruct the class (5)

20 Search for a killer? (5)

22 Speak freely and admit all (4,2)

23 Went off thoroughly confused (6)

25 The Russian commander’s given the push (7)

27 Stop to get air (7)

30 Swap for a whip (6)

31 Bands taking a journey in a ship (6)

32 Closed while one decorated (3,2)

35 Have food and lodge there (3,2)

36 When duff gen comes in, she’s responsible (5)

37 Did the doctor have anything to drink? (7)

39 Felt mad (7)

41 Back to the bar for a binge (5)

42 Has learned to sound the hooter (5)

43 Pull in, you say, and put it back (9) 44 Great big fellows in semi-undress (7)

DOWN: 1 Levels the score (6)

2 Worried when a stain is made by the spilt tea (2,1,5)

3 Temporarily, then, on going into the force (3,3,5)

4 Happen to visit for the purpose of (4,5)

5 Urge back into the lead, which does amaze one (7)

6 Just as it should be for the monks, without exception (3,2,5)

7 A rising opera singer and very keen (4)

10 Book someone who’s got loaded (6)

11 Having expanded, did encircle the former (7)

12 Are embarrassed about having been brought up by (6)

19 Took one’s time while everything within withered (7)

21 Making a pretence of translating the strange lingo (7)

24 A light sleeper will always be close to it (7,4)

26 Old timer! (6-4)

28 Whatever happens and no matter what the pace (2,3,4)

29 For Buster Sims, I have a letter (7)

30 The proper date is at the beginning of September (6)

32 How anxious the spirit is to come through at the seance? (4,4) 33 Shop at anew to get the chemical substance (6)

34 Order, for the fellow, fruit (7)

38 Squawk from a bird (6)

40 “26” is put to work (4)