Everyone’s crossword
ACROSS
10 Having similar views listening to the same radio programme? (2, 3, 4, 10) 11 Free grub be arranged as an item of fast food (10) 12 Only dram that has been spilt accidentally (8) 13 Spring I pass round (4) 14 Melancholy share not quite complete (7) 16 Intermediate position of theologian in the distance (6) 17 Foul smell sent around church (6) 19 One cannot be sure in such a situation (5) 20 Produce some copies for the deciding race (3-3) 21 Two men who are very similar (5) 23 How do you feel now you’re in the dark? (5) 29 Very strange verse on love (4, 2) 30 Prohibition on nearly everything that’s commonplace (5) 32 Destructive nightshade? (6) 33 Discordant noises about demand for political union (6) 35 Increase gradually the preliminaries leading to a climax (5-2) 37 Type of lamp in the lane once (4) 38 Get larger drink (8) 40 Improve meal or I eat out (10) 41 Lunatic can’t be seen first, it’s easily forgotten (3, 2, 5, 3, 2, 4)
DOWN
1 Bound to tell the truth (5, 4) 2 Dragging one’s feet whilst mixing the cards (9) 3 Is taken to court when it has been published (6) 4 One runs to escape duty (8) 5 But this swimmer is not a member of the fencing school! (9) 6 Left on top (4) 7 Triple-numbered part of full assembly (6) 8 How the story perhaps is spreading out (9) 9 Picture an ordinary photograph with vitality (5-4) 15 Players’ central thickness (5) 18 Not up to Shakespearean greeting (5) 20 Singularly swift part of the river (5) 22 Make baboon consume some meat (5) 24 Making things more equal before night begins? (7, 2) 25 Sweep forest undergrowth (9) 26 Anita’s pot cooked an appetiser (9) 27 General shape of a large computer (9) 28 Apportioning the lot, no teetotaler has gin-sling (9) 31 A soup spoon can hold no more than this (8) 34 Boxes to the east were widely scattered (6) 36 Using spoon I removed the harmful substance (6) 39 Pull using energy on the toboggan (4)