Toughie No. 41 — cryptic crossword
A toughie puzzle: 40 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
- Adoptive arrangement with English record (9)
- Sad, outsize and turned to drinks (5)
- Pie filling: flesh after affected walk (9)
- Something of a bonus here for the attendant (5)
- Travelled by highway, we hear (4)
- Piece of Rhode Island verse (3)
- Easy target: House in session, batsman scoring nothing (7,4)
- Broken lance is spotless (5)
- Fast American road, the special delivery route (10)
- Tips returned after a stretch (4)
- Swift, perhaps — time inside (4)
- Return of residence in the offing (10)
- Coach in time for the downpour (5)
- Airborne jump makes a great beginning (6,5)
- Single figure discovered in Stone Age (3)
- Repeat heard in the choir (4)
- Swimming in a laundry (5)
- Replies from persons upset with English son (9)
- Rotten hesitation before proposal (5)
- Dye stored badly is wrecked (9)
Down
- Some ova scrambled? Clear off! (7)
- Democrat with inner circle at a social gathering (6,5)
- Supervise six balls in the diocese (7)
- Ward off wild rave over time (5)
- Frantically trace exit! (9)
- Smug Ed is upset by a smear (6)
- Dash in Morse: possessed, turned up (3)
- Counted by the golfer, favoured by the swimmer (7)
- Chair for editor brought into clinic (5)
- Merely switched on, with learner unknown (4)
- Any luminous reworking, by common consent (11)
- Funded when ponds rose unexpectedly (9)
- Enthusiast has a look at the bison (7)
- Withers when king gets into moulds (5)
- With time out, the upper leg is elevated (4)
- Open-air row, partly about doors (7)
- Supposed to be a visitor, reportedly (7)
- An award and gold for the newsreader (6)
- Analyses lose a penny? Idiots! (5)
- Alsatian rages fiercely to start! (3)
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