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Name Address ACROSS

8 Rebuke partners when backed (4)

13 County worker on edge (6) 14 Scottish boys' casual trousers (7) 15 Polish Socinian or vicar on a roll (8) 18 Seine that is in spate where a star was seen (9, three words) 19 Rope-trick involved edible lichen (9, two words) 20 Canon's a professional club- member. Not half (4) 24 Frosty heartless foreigner is off (6) 27 Emended 'Eat Latin date' (6) 29 Spoke of sheep and trees (4) 30 Backrooms strike (4) 37 Makes merry about unfinished job with desserts (8) 38 Money finally bought one Scottish cassock (7) 39 They live high up, in the same place, with former partners (4) 40 Not absolutely like a sister? (10) 41 Company omitted from supplementary grant (4) 42 Diseased — rust-affected passed away (8) DOWN

1 Serve as a soldier putting power into sabre-rattling (8, two words)

2 Rude chap once rang up during News at . . . (6) 3 High plateau-land's one bird top to bottom (4) 4 Push to extremities and travel to former border landmark (14, four words) 5 Look again around the plant (7) 6 Contour line is up to isle (8) 7 Like a corpse — quiet — without a drink (14, two words, one hyphen) 9 The Queen's County with garland by unknown (4) 10 He discriminates against the old adult with spirit (6) 11 Stake amongst vegetable makes money (6) 17 Biting — heartlessly! (4) 22 Squalid state, Baby's no answer to it! (4) 23 Presenter — one of the lady's men, maybe (8, two words) 25 Extreme poverty, being born with a penny (4) 26 Prized donkey ruined seeds (8) 28 Artist up-river for food (7) 30 How to assist arrest (6) 31 Royal loo, apparently (6) 33 Sound of a gag? (6)