JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES ACROSS: 9 Pasta (8) 10 Youth (3)

11 Tenderfoot (6) 12 Maintained (4,2) 13 Interminable (7) 14 Abhor (4)

15 Dance (10)

17 Speculate (8)

18 Cooked (7)

19 Move (4)

21 Ornamentation (6)

24 Proposed (6,3,8)

27 Agreement (6)

29 Flower (4)

30 Dilettante (7)

33 Dictator (8)

35 Precursor (10)

36 Remainder (4)

37 Dependent (7)

38 Ask (6)

40 Various (6)

41 Deer (3)

42 Guiding (8)

DOWN: 1 Accept blame (4,3,3)

2 Stop (4) 3 Full (8) 4 Entertains (7)

5 Daring (11) 6 Brochure (10)

7 Nuisance (6)

8 Aversion (8)

10 Burdened (5)

16 Fall back (7)

20 Lock (5)

22 Struck (7)

23 Raconteur (11)

25 Initiative (10)

26 Sickening (10)

28 Memento (8)

31 Disciplinarian (8)

32 Object (7)

34 Beginning (6)

35 Side (5)

39 Extremely (4)

ACROSS

9 Document that has to do with land (8)

10 He has a belief beef should be totally eliminated (3)

11 Years after, I am showing the pictures (6)

12 Are embarrassed all round when it’s brought up (6)

13 Forced from that the previous wife had been on the stage (7) 14 Concludes they’re what one’s aiming for (4)

15 Understood it’s not done to jump on the bed (8,2)

17 Forced us to change our ways (8)

18 I make the mistake of taking tea round to the entertainer (7) 19 Strike back at the friends (4)

21 Including it in the tax shows a lack of seriousness (6)

24 Tipping the fielder so he’ll drop the catches? (8,3,4,2)

27 Surname of the critic who says everything’s awful? (6)

29 Give to a crew member (4)

30 The weapons are a knock out, sire! (7)

33 Risqué? Wrong! (8)

35 Scaring off the burglars at the lunatic asylum? (7,3)

36 Have a hunch, from experience (4)

37 The performances as before, or in a different scene (7)

38 Ships the man, an artist, back (6)

40 Pop the loose tees inside with the coin (6)

41 See for myself, so to speak (3) 42 Having broken the limit Brown, taken in, is aggressive (8) DOWN

1 Do, being worried for a start, have an intuition (10)

2 It’s pouring rain when you waken up (4)

3 Dance with an admirer and prepare to leave with (8)

4 Goes to a dentist, awful, that I have left (7)

5 Looking presentable? (4,7)

6 A nice, all red ensemble for the poor neglected girl (10)

7 With a little gulp, swallowing a tea cake (6)

8 Very tired, though it’s late, be at (4,4)

10 On the other hand, it is a profit (5)

16 High ground the tern has flown to from the flood (7)

20 Returning with a woman: fifty, olive-skinned and brown-eyed? (5) 22 How the siren’s accompanying herself on the piano? (7)

23 Just what you’d expect of an actor when performing (2,9)

25 What the mineralogists are fighting over? (5,5)

26 Sending on, with the purpose of staving off (10)

28 How Jack walked? (8)

31 Friendly and pleasant, caught entering (8)

32 Suppose you do have the temerity to? (7)

34 Will it make the poor swimmer’s hair curl? (6)

35 Go rudely in, uninvited, to the boat (5)

39 Mother didn’t finish the tea (4)