JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Fragile (8) 10 Also (3) 11 Coyly (6) 12 Take (6) 13 Feline (7) 14 Wicked (4) 15 Skilled (10)

17 Plant (8)

18 Contrived (7)

19 Therefore (4)

21 Rotten (6)

24 Fleeing (6,2,4,5)

27 Infuriate (6)

29 Former (4)

30 Suppose (7)

33 Exaggerated (8)

35 End (10)

36 Insects (4)

37 Stop (7)

38 Material (6)

40 Shed (4-2)

41 Child (3)

42 Shrink (8)

DOWN: 1 Fruit (10) 2 Conceal (4)

3 Fragment (8) 4 Answered (7)

5 Publicly (3,3,2,3)

6 Nonsense (10)

7 Entry (6)

8 Height (8)

10 Fish (5)

16 Stamped (7)

20 Perch (5)

22 Attires (7)

23 Anyhow (2,3,6)

25 Fool (10)

26 Sleepiness (10)

28 Lent (8)

31 Germane (8)

32 Readily available (2,5)

34 Rebellion (6)

35 Swindle (5)

39 Entice (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 It’s humiliating to be ordered to alight (8)

10 The sun fish is tailless (3)

11 Pull a number backwards and forwards (6)

12 She’s knocking drink back at “The Galloping Nag” (6)

13 He’s coming down - for the day! (7)

14 Nonsense! It’s almost too quiet! (4)

15 A slight shake of the head in it will reveal something (4,1,5)

17 Pretend to be in front? How could you! (3,5)

18 Means to get the daughter into tennis-playing (7)

19 Bringing the guns back, he hopes to make a quick profit (4) 21 I met the crooked Denis in prison (6)

24 Acknowledging one was wrong to have taken the seat? (8,9) 27 Concealed inside, the bird did damage (6)

29 It would be prudent to read the letters aloud (4)

30 Cocktail ingredients (7)

33 Making speed from the stronghold (8)

35 Only second-hand goods, but we’re used to that (7,3)

36 The front and the base (4)

37 Cold, in a Gallic sort of way (7)

38 It takes an hour one way - truly (6)

40 It’s sheer nonsense taking time off (6)

41 I say! Look! (3) 42 Don’t notice that you can see from above (8)

DOWN

1 Find out how many employees there are and how they’re voting (5,5) 2 Said it’s an irritation: the vet can treat it (4)

3 Added up to, when one had carried the whole lot inside (8)

4 Acting the part of the Western traveller? (2,5)

5 Feminine lingerie - for the junior miss (4,2,1,4)

6 Not many between three and six (4,2,4)

7 Twig it’s not your own hair (6)

8 Supposed to have been overbold (8)

10 Hours at work that go very quickly (5)

16 The reactionary I’d heard about (3-4)

20 Signs of parasites (5)

22 Environment in which one’s working as a hairdresser (7)

23 How you got both rattled quickly? (2,3,6)

25 You’re soon going to get fed up hearing it (6,4)

26 The blue area on the weather map? (10)

28 Can I run into trouble working? (2,6)

31 Increase, breaking the hinge (8)

32 Isn’t prepared to invest the lot, anyhow, in an English export (7)

34 To begin with, mother has to provide food (6)

35 It would be simple to put one in the hub (5)

39 Backing, put a pound on for her (4)