JUMBO CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 8 Abandoned (7) 9 Thanks (9) 13 Plenty (5) 14 Subject (5) 15 Follower (7) 16 Refuge (7) 17 Vision (5) 18 Clutch (5) 20 Weary (5) 22 Colour (6) 23 Pamper (6) 25 Strip (7) 27 Ordinary (7) 30 Flower (6) 31 Show (6) 32 Subsequently (5) 35 Wrinkled (5) 36 Spin (5) 37 Hell (7) 39 Month (7) 41 Soil (5) 42 Permission (5) 43 Cheek (9) 44 Rendering (7) DOWN: 1 Pair (6) 2 Agreed (8) 3 Steak (11) 4 Fruit (9) 5 Difficulties (7) 6 Fortress (10) 7 Whirlpool (4) 10 Hound (6) 11 Fabric (7) 12 Tyrant (6) 19 Attack (7) 21 Dilapidated (3-4) 24 Matador (11) 26 Circuitous (10) 28 Home (9) 29 Announce (7) 30 Immature (6) 32 Inanimate (8) 33 Cheered (6) 34 Began (7) 38 Motive (6) 40 While (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS: 8 Depict a sinister man (7) 9 Don’t know where the tot’s got to (4,5) 13 Admit everything and cry afterwards (5) 14 Back out, lady! (5) 15 Bet on and it will be slow (7) 16 A tear? (3,4) 17 Deduce the fire had spread round about mid-evening (5) 18 To avoid a duel, escaped to the East (5) 20 Nauseates one when it goes off (5) 22 It’s lucky the animal is in that end (6) 23 Say it’s a cinch, for all to hear (6) 25 Does misuse one’s power, going in to get rid of (7) 27 Renovation to the church Agnes works at (7) 30 It’s bright and cold and you get up only with difficulty (6) 31 Is no good. Refuses to act (4,2) 32 Suits the patients (5) 35 Name the bird Leo, nothing less! (5) 36 Are, from the first (5) 37 Pet with a hard master training it (7) 39 Open at lunch, unusually (7) 41 The one in Greece is beyond hope (5) 42 Stop, say, for a rest (5) 43 Cast loose in a raft-tide’s going out (3,6) 44 Make-up mother’s used to conceal a blemish (7)

DOWN: 1 Pass over the trumped-up story of the dog (6) 2 They’ll wait until you disembark (8) 3 “The voice is good but almost inaudible”? (5,6) 4 So fear not. There will be changes in a little while (4,5) 5 Fixes while the salesman looks on (7) 6 Adequate grounds for becoming a philosopher (4,6) 7 Soon as there’s a vacancy, a girl is sent round (4) 10 Shut up at the inside: that’s clear (6) 11 As opposed to that French piece the dealer’s priced highly (7) 12 Dump waste (6) 19 The instruction to be economical is falling on deaf ears (7) 21 Tear I am to mend in the clothing (7) 24 A little while ago they got the road in dug up (3,5,3) 26 Now give me a little time (7,3) 28 Succeeding in falling while riding (6,3) 29 Saying, on turning it round, it is covered in flies (7) 30 Though a natural for, is eliminated (3,3) 32 Answer the invitation to return (4,4) 33 Run into when you go out (6) 34 Instrument for the one-man band that makes a squawky noise? (7) 38 Whose did he get incarcerated in stir wrongly? (6) 40 Told a story to music (4)