Mythology No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Mythology) toughie puzzle: 42 clues on a 15×15 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Hands over gloves (5)
4. Nut cracked — "Ma, I am a cad" (9)
9. Let's set out in confusion — one resolves (7)
10. A teetotaller finishes, and one goes along (7)
12. Erase, sadly, what an Indian bride wears (5)
14. Flat out, and not being straight (5)
16. Deep absorption in memoirs, strangely (9)
17. Word of agreement recalled in the cinema (4)
18. Hard worker's nag makes a treacherous gift (6,5)
21. Love one learner — crude! (3)
23. Something of a novel fellow (3)
24. A great deal for us diners — dreamy folk who forgot home (5,6)
29. Left the harbour for a drink (4)
30. Where the stars are before they come out (9)
32. A little bit of judgement (5)
34. Sage king is better informed (5)
35. Citadel in ruins — the local tongue (7)
36. GI Mario messed up the art of paper folding (7)
38. Protected, as the elders were shuffled (9)
39. You, new and good, are not old (5)

Down

1. Parasite where totem lies uprooted (9)
2. Boy king, say, reversing it, with everyone playing (5)
3. Spirit, we hear, is the sun (3)
4. Amiss, he strayed — the anointed one (7)
5. Appeal, er, from a smooth operator (7)
6. Deer taking time to put one off (5)
7. Romance it destroyed — a legendary man-eater (9)
8. A king and son in a burning offence (5)
11. Awkward years — tense, unsettled (5)
13. Rounds from leading elements of a mortar, mostly obsolete (4)
15. Grand bar, the goal of a knight's quest (5)
19. Take the service: one at the office is roped in (9)
20. Note a new deed to make it law (5)
22. All ears when enlisting, surprisingly (9)
25. Work with a twitch of the eye (5)
26. One raising a glass, or something that raises the bread (7)
27. Swell, losing its head, becomes a strong desire (4)
28. Minor planet, headless, gives a muscle-builder (7)
30. Bishop with lyric poems foretells (5)
31. Rooms, we hear, are charming (5)
33. Fauns running amok (5)
37. Climber found in a Tel Aviv yard (3)

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