8 Ruffle and you go off in high dudgeon (7)
9 Obviously a baby girl and well (2, 3, 4)
13 i.e., take the broken-down car away (2, 3)
14 A fight in the second batch of games is overheard (5)
15 Intend to fill a gap in clothing (7)
16 Bother! Ran unexpectedly into bad weather (7)
17 Is effective and one gets the job (5)
18 A very little R in “increase” (5)
20 Punches holes in them one doesn’t want! (5)
22 Greenery, a duck and a barge floating round (6)
23 Goose that vegetarians will eat (6)
25 “Cheer up, do” only added to it (7)
27 Don’t accept there’s a deterioration in (7)
30 Drink the lady dropped, so sorry (6)
31 A storage place in the tower (6)
32 The male layabout is on the bed (5)
35 Cook is run down (5)
36 Have a drink, good heavens, after the game! (5)
37 Pet food the sister is leaving to get (7)
39 Please - before I get the lining (7)
41 Gnat flying round the globe, east of Fiji (5)
42 Be forced to poke the string through and pull (5)
43 The inference is there will be a cut in (9)
44 Arrested for having caused an obstruction (7
8 Whaler’s spear (7)
9 Roll of tobacco (9)
13 Over (5)
14 Cutlery item (5)
15 Coach (7)
16 Card game (7)
17 Shallow round dish (5)
18 Articles (5)
20 Destroys (5)
22 Land adjoining a house (6)
23 Strain, emphasis (6)
25 Looking exhausted and unwell (7)
27 An exercise (5-2)
30 Amongst (6)
31 Lounge (6)
32 Cherished hope (5)
35 Spanish man (5)
36 Open sore (5)
37 Splinter group (7)
39 Having died out (7)
41 Banquet (5)
42 Group of nine (5)
43 Camel type (9)
44 Chooses (7)
DOWN
DOWN
1 Come out and it runs (6)
2 Joke, up to the last, “I arranged the wedding” (8)
3 In an aviary, would a tailorbird find it useful? (7-4)
4 Possibly out to annoy, detaining the train (9)
5 Value the riches amassed and hard to come by (7)
6 Seasonal list of Asian food (6, 4)
7 As soon as you get a single, caught in (4)
10 Says, as one puts back that half inside (6)
11 Cook heard he left to become a waiter (7)
12 Attitude adopted by the con woman (6)
19 As before, the man enters rather slowly (7)
21 In a predicament through awful car sickness (7)
24 Do those forming it seek to be sociable? (6, 5)
26 Lie down for a while, dead to the world (7, 3)
28 Step up the advertising campaign (9)
29 In the swing, yes, is influencing one (7)
30 Particles from brushes (6)
32 You’ll be lucky! Not all aspire to (4, 4)
33 The picture that’s got its face to the wall? (6)
34 Apprehensions of various stars about to appear in (7)
38 Finds many in floods of tears (6)
40 To be a duo is the thing! (4)
1 Abandon ashore (6)
2 Calms, pacifies (8)
3 Glare with hostility (4, 7)
4 Sets free (9)
5 Fairground ride (7)
6 Hits back (10)
7 Knock senseless (4)
10 Star sign (6)
11 Small acting role (3, 4)
12 Emergency (6)
19 Put to death (7)
21 European language (7)
24 Male relative (11)
26 Art of good eating (10)
28 Ignite (5, 4)
29 Newspaper or periodical (7)
30 Solution (6)
32 Stoppered bottle (8)
33 Sixty seconds (6)
34 Guardianship (7)
38 Congenital (6)
40 Conservative (4)
