9 How employees work when shifts are discontinued suddenly? (3, 2, 4)
10 Both willing and pleasant (9)
12 Jars when you slam the brakes on in reverse (4)
13 Determine to get a seat (6)
14 Played daring roles in films though not allowed to become big (7)
15 Made out one had been a caretaker before (9)
17 Tar-something that marks indelibly - he won’t have (9)
18 Punish when you hang up on (7)
19 Going back, shred everything brought in the post (6)
20 So I get right inside (4)
23 Claimed to have struggled against (9)
25 Practitioner who takes the blame at first (9)
26 Backlash you confront (4)
27 Bottle you carry off secretly (6)
29 Scams that haven’t been kept quiet! (7)
32 Having meant, somehow, to go to the match, will (9)
34 The man’s given meat and stuff (9)
35 Make up for having got out of line? (7)
36 Got even - and wallowed in it (6)
37 The food, by the end, is rather unhygienic (4)
38 Tees off, outside Dover, getting dressed as a docker (9)
39 What chairs
9 Hit back (9)
10A copious supply (9)
12 Neck part (4)
13 Take for granted (6)
14 Young cats (7)
15 Fruit type (9)
17 Nudists (9)
18 Breathes out (7)
19 Colour (6)
20 Fencing sword (4)
23 Spring about on this (4, 5)
25 Sure of oneself (9)
26 Cummerbund (4)
27 Nearly (3, 3)
29 Medical practitioner (7)
32 Grows, expands (9)
34 Squeeze-box (9)
35 Not either (7)
36 Aromatic spice (6)
37 Rescue (4)
38 Abides (9)
39 Perforated pans (9)
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DOWN
1 Peter’s instrument? (8)
2 What made man, wisely, stop going round naked? (7, 5)
3 Having proposed, is the fiance (8)
4 Put in the microwave when he’d come round to have a meal? (6)
5 Game the babe’s playing with everybody (8)
6 The green-keeper’s informant? (5, 5)
7 Reading the new Super-man (7)
8 Newly recruited, he’s given money at the base (10)
11 Stick no label on when returning (5)
16 One repeated the time (6)
19 Paper the home (3)
21 Create a fuss when you enlarge your attic? (5, 3, 4)
22 A dresser - or something on it (6)
23 Settle for “Invitation the weary guest appeared” (4, 2, 4)
24 Gloom that means rain’s on the way (10)
25 Shot the child (3)
28 Answered that it had been taken back? (8)
29 Goes back, having broken off the engagement (8)
30 A celebrity and what a physique! (8)
31 Hesitated, we’d say, to enter (7)
33 Slink, having left, inside (5)
34 “Wax” in a foreign language (6)
1 Brown-haired woman (8)
2 Accelerate (4, 2, 3, 3)
3 Destroyers, say (8)
4 Term of office (6)
5 Motherly (8)
6 Rain very hard (6, 4)
7 Newspaper bosses (7)
8 Incessantly repeated (10)
11 Requires (5)
16 Join up (6)
19 Tibetan ox (3)
21 Planned beforehand (12)
22 Looking glass (6)
23 Ardent (10)
24 Explain with pictures (10)
25 Popular pet (3)
28 Trade, profession (8)
29 On the q.t.(8)
30 Flimflam (8)
31 Ties up (7)
33 Moderate coldness (5)
34 Set upon (6)
