JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 9 Fake (9) 10 Painting (3,6) 12 Very small (4) 13 Leave helpless (6) 14 Examining (7) 15 Deduction (9)

17 Herald (9)

18 Bewitch (7)

19 Somewhat (6)

20 Pudding ingredient (4)

23 Twisted (9)

25 Impetuosity (9)

26 Bound (4)

27 Rue (6)

29 Transported (7)

32 Clumsy (9)

34 Riddle (9)

35 Perched (7)

36 Marks (6)

37 Daze (4)

38 Autograph (9)

39 Dish (9)

DOWN: 1 Harangue (8) 2 Meaning (12) 3 Clear (8) 4 Risky (6) 5 Songbird (8)

6 Ingenuity (10)

7 Hold (7)

8 Sociable (10)

11 Due (5)

16 Cause (6)

19 Colour (3)

21 Improvement (12)

22 Lemon-like fruit (6)

23 Class (10)

24 Great (10)

25 Success (3)

28 Opposed (8)

29 Liking (8)

30 Game (8)

31 Impartial (7)

33 Amid (5)

34 Opportunity (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

9 Permit, as writer of? (9)

10 Went to see, in order to settle with? (4,1,4)

12 The song that one was romancing with? (4)

13 Photographs the harbingers of spring? (6)

14 Writes back first for subsistence money (7)

15 He told one off for not working (2,3,4)

17 One’s assent to the contract (9)

18 Plant the nursery sells bags of? (3,4)

19 Ways to get round little children, they’re popular with (6)

20 Cast aspersions on, saying you have bad diction? (4)

23 Before being hemmed in by the tide, come to your senses (3,6)

25 An inferior worker and sly (9)

26 Got carried away, but stick to the point (4)

27 Cold, hurry on, though not at all fast (6)

29 On a river, are they dragging it? (7)

32 Exhausted, bit by bit released the rope (6,3)

34 Painting unpopular with art thieves? (9)

35 Die down as you gently remove (4,3)

36 In a silly pose, embracing the American wife (6)

37 Photographed having a drink (4)

38 Understand and run in (9)

39 See how “pass sentence” sounds (9)

DOWN

1 Yells “Cut!” and all, therefore, go inside (5,3)

2 Much better and faster than the other postmen? (7,5)

3 With which the dog conjured up the genie? (8)

4 Because trapped by the insect earlier on (6)

5 The turncoat, having got a job, didn’t go hungry (8)

6 Had died and ghost came through downcast (10)

7 Mean to squeeze nine into the basket (7)

8 Crotchety and having a propensity for poor health? (3-7)

11 Vermin found on a girl (5)

16 Wears as the queen does, when dressed up (6)

19 The number’s upside down in this issue (3)

21 Doesn’t take the foliage at the back (6,6)

22 For the intelligent, full of promise (6)

23 What the assayers are fighting over? (5,5)

24 Satisfaction obtained from teaching (6,4)

25 Exercise in which you pronounce the vowels (3)

28 The rigid ideas, somehow you discard (3,5)

29 Are the odds against its winning a photographic competition? (4,4)

30 The female met with an awful death, which was covered up (8)

31 Didn’t do anything but sit in the shade (7)

33 A setback for a storyteller (5)

34 Rough and inclined to cut? (6)