9 Preferred thing - when you're on the wagon? (3,2,3)
10 The current look (3)
11 Put upon in having provided for (4,2)
12 Not the horse that was flown off after the race? (6)
13 Finished most of the preliminary sketch (7)
14 Does better than, though a little backward (4)
15 Bread for the captain (6,4)
17 Identified the pretty girl the youth was embracing (8)
18 Letting one know it's having an impact (7)
19 Duck back to have a drink after work {4)
21 Tried to get the time and the dates changed (6)
24 Being taught by a different teacher, far inferior (3,2,3,4,5)
27 She returned, an hour after midnight, home (6)
29 Move forwards slowly, having an instinct (4)
30 Can rake in excellent money (7)
33 Take back the money paid with and disconcert? (8)
35 Certainly, using any way available to actieve your end 2,3,5)
36 A blinking tailless fish! (4)
37 They're why the children are jumpy at first (7)
38 Note the owner has gone off to the north (6)
40 Predicament thet means you must be very economical (6)
41 The education got off to a bad start, as expected (3)
42 I left it by the barrier at the back of the field (8)
9 Dealer in gems (8)
10 Small vegetable (3)
11 Required (6)
12 National song (6)
13 Fix up (7)
14 Regrets (4)
15 Level (10)
17 Kills brutally (8)
18 Disorderly struggle (7)
19 Yashmak (4)
21 Young cat (6)
24 Treat superficially (7,3,7)
27 Mend one's ways (6)
29 Conservative (4)
30 Bureaucracy (3,4)
33 Solid fuel (8)
35 Plot (10)
36 Break suddenly (4)
37 Hermit (7)
38 Musical dramas (6)
40 Area (6)
41 Actor's signal (3)
42 School bags (8)
DOWN
DOWN
1 Vegetable suitable for the Atkins diet? (6,4)
2 Is pronounced altogether devout and godly (4)
3 Upsetting the daily routine's gone off to fish (8)
4 A f-fighting group (7)
5 Hiding the foreign currency in a book, is aggravating (11)
6 With this order, there's always a starter (10)
7 Many take to drink when upset and it's dangerous (6)
8 All there, you conclude (8)
10 May you count upon starting where she leaves off (5)
16 Got rid of an undesirable character? (7)
20 Standards required for the jobs (5)
22 A suitable vegetable to accompany fish? (3,4)
23 Do repairs on the watches to be sold (6,5)
25 It's not "Hors d'Oeuvre" that's scratched from the race (3-7)
26 The energy to give it another whirl? (6,4)
28 Proclaim, or declare, to be a lightweight (8)
31 Be cruel to the patients you practise medicine on? (3-5)
32 Fish you lay in for the dogs (7)
34 Object to "Are out to make themselves popular" (6)
35 Came to grief on the rocks (5)
39 A duck on an English river (4)
ACROSS: 9, Cup of tea 10, Air 11, Laid on 12, Stayer 13, Th(e)-rough 14, Tops (rev) 15, Bridge roll 17, La-belle-d 18, Telling 19, O-pus 21, T-asted 24, Not in the same class 27, Ma-I-den 29, Nose 30, Fin-anc-e 33, Un-settle 35, By all means 36, udd(y) 37, Rea-sons 38, Renow-n 40, Scrape 41, Due 42, (i)T-ralling
