Sunday Times

Everyone’s crossword

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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)

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