JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS:

9 Singer (8)

10 Prohibit (3)

11 Insect (6)

12 Thoroughfare (6)

13 Stand (7)

14 Be wide open (4)

15 Safeguard (10)

17 Uncommunicative (8)

18 Fire (7)

19 Diplomacy (4)

21 Cut (6)

24 Asters (10,7)

27 Rebukes (6)

29 Simple (4)

30 Sibling (7)

33 Fleeing (2,3,3)

35 Intentional (10)

36 Chief (4)

37 Curved sword (7)

38 Madness (6)

40 Sheepdog (6)

41 Vehicle (3)

42 Raised (8)

DOWN:

1 Flowering plant (10)

2 Flank (4)

3 Outlines (8)

4 Chorus (7)

5 Thanklessness (11)

6 Pasta (10)

7 Intelligent (6)

8 Scatter (8)

10 Buffalo (5)

16 Funny (7)

20 Gather (5)

22 Artist (7)

23 Different (11)

25 Preoccupied (10)

26 Glasses (10)

28 Spice (8)

31 Mutinied (8)

32 Bunch (7)

34 Manage (6)

35 Haggard (5)

39 Close (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 For the majority, the high spot (4,4)

10 Understand, when the note is sounded (3)

11 The woman and man in the paint shop (6)

12 Cadge a cake from? (6)

13 Fall back, anyhow, slap into the middle of the green (7)

14 Measure the rain one has trapped (4)

15 Job the tenants are in (10)

17 Rushed back and scolded for having told (8) 18 Again I send in by return (7)

19 The vehicle gets across in half the time (4)

21 Achieve a decisive victory for the party (6) 24 Being spent foolishly on bath salts? (5,4,3,5) 27 Figure the horse to back is “Sea Bird” (6)

29 “Dish” does have an aitch (4)

30 Notices one takes a second look at (7)

33 Literary work from an earlier exam (8)

35 It’s a fruit, my darling! (10)

36 He hasn’t won outright in a row (4)

37 Weather good, tennis not bad (3,4)

38 What happened when the clergyman fed the mutt? (6)

40 With only a tiny bit of English, manage to get by (6)

41 Look at and read aloud the letter (3)

42 The buyer is an American general: the order has gone through (8)

DOWN

1 It’s about having esteem (10)

2 Put out for a while, comes back mad (4)

3 Join in, but don’t hog the lot! (4,4)

4 Having overhead lighting (7)

5 Don’t forget to stay where we can see you (4,2,5)

6 Kept for the famous (10)

7 A hat for the country (6)

8 A fellow unable to hear but very brave (8)

10 It’s number fifty – like the back room (5)

16 Up to “In a struggle to make it perfect” (7) 20 She sang out “The key is inside” (5)

22 He’s pragmatic, it’s true, at first (7)

23 Where the rent money goes? Exactly! (2,3,6) 25 Suit yourself! (3,7)

26 Sometimes having no divining-rod, in that case (3,3,4)

28 If all else fails, a gentle knock on the chin, perhaps (2,1,5)

31 Put to use in your workout (8)

32 Go back to make another copy of (7)

34 In that, again, it is a warning (6)

35 Leave with no reason – it’s just some fad (5) 39 Make one pay far too much for the castle (4)