“Authors” Crossword

Across

2. Creeping along the border (6)

7. Begin (but don’t finish) a famous one (4)

10. Circular enclosure with no entry restrictions (4)

12. Fat girl ahead of time (4)

13. Back, back out of Corfu (3)

14. Low noise (3)

15. It’s formed in the mind, out of wide admiration (4)

16. Painful inflammation: it’s a hole in the intestine (4)

17. Behold! Two articles to find repugnant (6)

18. Fliers go back a long way (3)

19. Buck’s a model girl with a right following (6)

23. Fur felt oddly itchy (7)

24. All French advertise brazenly (4)

25. He predicts animal painter will lose land (4)

26. Aggressive driver’s said to have ridden big motorbike (4,3)

28. Roy, or a meandering gully (6)

30. Your old herb has lost me (3)

31. Idea congeals, revealing cleric (6)

35. Eager to lament the dead (4)

36. Great singer’s 35 (gone west) (4)

37. Born of Jane Eyre (3)

38. The centre of Myrmidons (3)

39. Dog – or what’s behind it (4)

40. In opposition to one following worker (4)

41. Remain to shore up (4)

42. Live with regard to the team (6)

Down

1. See preamble

3. Plea objecting to rampaging murderer (8)

4. Around Hollywood, bride’s declaration to attempt religious devotion (8)

5. Left in good Scots society (5)

6. Renovate the coloured circle (4)

7. Pinch your old term for being furtive (8)

8. Chief bearer (4)

9. See preamble

11. Present proposal in favour of very loud monarch (7)

12. Mark on Frank’s first item of neckwear (5)

13. Initially formulate a thesis on adipose tissue (3)

18. Vehemence of iron taking Ronnie O’Sullivan first over Manchester, for example (8)

20. Veterans with arthritic fingers, probably (3,5)

21. Noel does unravel this piece of unfinished business (5,3)

22. Increase for golden government agents on time (7)

27. A ring of coral reef (5)

29. Very happily broadcasting (2,3)

32. Cricketers involved in alien departure (4)

33. Include a priest (3)

34. Round valuation of cricket ground (4)