Cryptic clues
Across Down
1. Ask for help from taciturn tourist (4,2)
11. How to get a communication back from parliament? (5)
12. Consumed with regret when the Paris street’s nearly full (6)
13. Vessel used by the Professor and Mary Ann to fish behind ship (1,1,6)
14. Mother and Ms Derek in front of elephant? Nonsense! (5,5)
15. Kiwi initial address on routine arrival (3,3)
16. Pat returned faucet (3)
18. Where Norman and Andrew briefly landed on June 6, 1944? (8)
19. Sailors in the Bohemian drink (8)
21. Strange to own limos that go at a snail’s pace (4,6) 24. Goes on and on about shark epic (4)
25. Had to be controlled by evil spirit (9)
27. As about eleven make enemies of allies (4) 28. Formal enquiry at first meeting (3,2,3,2) 31. Amalgamated harvester didn’t start (8) 33. Endangered South American had doctor set arm inside (8)
36. Tiger’s starting point in the middle of the fifteenth? (3) 37. Serenade the French spinster or bachelor (6) 39. Since when can anyone remember the twelve months with little Dorothy? (3,4,3)
41. Humbug and peas for the wise on clay tray (8) 42. As orchestra should be for fashionable melody (2,4) 43. Deliberately lose blanket? (5)
44. Online stormy weather feature (2,4)
1. Mule is making breakfast food (6)
2. Against organisations for disease fighters (10) 3. Disheartened actors hide under feathers (8) 4. What he saw may unlock the case for police investigators (3,7)
5. Practise agriculture for distant military leader (4) 6. Blazing duck or wading bird? (8)
7. Intense emotion sounds harder for the Cockney (6) 8. Sulky Downtown singer supported by section of Bible (8)
9. Restrained place for dog nap? (6)
17. Fainted when training completed (6,3) 2. Second letter on the radio is well done (5) 22. What you might wallow in, in Bermuda (3)
23. Set aside where skaters perform (2,3) 25. Earnings left out of play (3)
26. Targets for iconoclasts in India? (6,4) 27. Off-putting foreigner accompanied by horrible giant (10)
29. It’s a trial getting baby supplies? (5,3)
3. The latest thing as far as fruit? (2-2-4)
32. Notes to the wise in army dining hall (8) 34. Extreme athlete opens Games venue (6)
35. What fish sleep on in Davy Jones’s locker? (6) 38. Hears what beginner earns (6)
4. Steam room even has tropical plant (4)