9 Immediately put one, folded, round her (9)
10 Somebody going through agonies, sadly, when I abandon (9)
12 Collar some have back to front (4)
13 Learn I can, having got inside the plant (6)
14 A girl, clumsy, mum, and on the big side (7)
15 And, while the duo performed outside, passed round (6, 3)
17 Hit out the other: the one after (9)
18 They brief one on paints, for a start (7)
19 Decree there should be a hole to drain off from (6)
20 Two bands, a small and a large, slotted into place (4)
23 Compered “Top of the Pops,” but was irritated by (9)
25 Realising it’s the song I composed, can’t include (9)
26 Earlier - but not early enough! (4)
27 The girl got a little tipsy on wine (6)
29 Talked of, in a month, retiring; bomb-shell that! (7)
32 Barely shifting! (9)
34 Permission to proceed, as there’s room to manoeuvre (9)
35 Sticking into the gap roughly. Isn’t tailored for (7)
36 That’s a laugh, twit! Back scrubber! (6)
37 Having a drink, love; returned from work (4)
38 What holds one back when the others aim to enter? (9)
39 He metes out but goes without himself (9)
9 Team running event (5, 4)
10 Chatty (9)
12 Wooden shoe (4)
13 Bomb hole (6)
14 Perform surgery (7)
15 Usually (2, 7)
17 Hypocritical (9)
18 Short growth of beard (7)
19 Main circus tent (3, 3)
20 Atmosphere (4)
23 Staying power (9)
25 Happen, occur (4, 5)
26 Sea eagle (4)
27 Feeling of resentment (6)
29 Prickly plant (7)
32 Discolours (9)
34 Initial advantage (4, 5)
35 Encounter unexpectedly (3, 4)
36 Bursts out (6)
37 Public school (4)
38 Insipid (9)
39 Recklessly bold person (9)
DOWN
DOWN
1 To make trouble for, puts back the chit, folded inside (6, 2)
2 Say nothing about the residue I allowed to borrow (6, 6)
3 Birds fight when there are scraps about (8)
4 Emphasise in the article sins are very wrong (6)
5 The turn having been given critical acclaim, is exalted (8)
6 Playing and, for a change, beating (10)
7 Having managed to catch the bus, shut up (7)
8 Right at the bottom of the bag mother’s packing (10)
11 A girl who’s gone astray (5)
16 Young one with a twin (6)
19 Having no match when it comes to eccentricity? (3)
21 What the jockey called his first job? (8, 4)
22 Dram I ordered and I imbibed in flight (6)
23 Is critical of how one demolishes (5, 5)
24 Using long words and being grandiloquent? (7, 3)
25 Whip round he will swindle us in (3)
28 Control the speed of the glue setting in (8)
29 Vacancy for a mountaineer (8)
30 Are cabinet makers put upon by them? (8)
31 Embarking places for soldiers with weapons (7)
33 Supports when one is not working (5)
34 Those that could be dispersed by sun? (6)
1 Having great value (8)
2 Without warning (3, 2, 1, 6)
3 Wedding (8)
4 Middle (6)
5 British money (8)
6 Thoroughbred horses (10)
7 Greek restaurant (7)
8 Slow down (10)
11 Senseless (5)
16 Cinders (6)
19 Cricket extra (3)
21 Not much to look at (12)
22 Cleaves (6)
23 Body of voters (10)
24 Foreign country (5, 5)
25 Foot digit (3)
28 Scatter (8)
29 Renegades (8)
30 Ensnare, enmesh (8)
31 Trailblazer (7)
33 Encircles (5)
34 Pursues relentlessly (6)
