Only Connect Crossword
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A Connecting Wall is formed by entries 1a, 2d, 3d, 4a, 9d, 10a, 10d, 17a, 20a, 23d, 24a, 24d, 25d, 29a, 34d, and 39a (all highlighted in red). The connections are given by 11 14 22 16, 40 27, 12 31 8 38 and 11 14 22 21 (highlighted in yellow). None of the entries in the connections are otherwise defined; those clues are marked with an asterisk and contain only wordplay.
Across
- 1 City is fashionable hence (7)
- 4 Freezing cold and mountainous (6)
- 8 Noisy duck flies west (2)
- 10 Lightning in town — not on (4)
- 11 He's inside, thank you (4)
- 14 E.g., Manchester shipping line (3, 3)
- 15 It's alien and, for Caeser, consumed (2)
- 17 On Oxford Street, £130 is torn (4)
- 19 Such empty quiet (2)
- 20 Proposition in finale of Crystal Maze (4)
- 22 Drift around perimeter of oval (6)
- 24 See 26
- 26, 24 Obstructing tactic for game (8)
- 27 Spread out, start to finish (5)
- 29 Evil as a candle (6)
- 30 Even "Bel Air" could help in the music round (3)
- 31 Penny improves (6)
- 36 Agent 51 sent to California, looking for clone (7)
- 38 Stupid onanist (7)
- 39 Plant listening device in Volkswagen (3)
- 40 Inverse total I calculated to 30% (7)
- 41 See 36 down
Down
- 2 Is not sea (6)
- 3 Lubrication gets gears moving around machine finally (6)
- 5 Sexy presenter removing sexy top (3)
- 6 Ale, in the missing vowels round — that is an incorrect answer (3)
- 7 The old naked eyes (2)
- 9 Hooded beast starts to fund absurd legislation by Tory (6)
- 10 Goes about right larks, say (5)
- 12 Hard ordering first before second (4)
- 13 7’s correct (3)
- 16 The German national socialist uprising (7)
- 18 Towards outskirts of Toronto (2)
- 21 Welsh literature, written in Vermilion (10)
- 23 Large mammals were hardly a large evolutionary step at first (6)
- 24 One getting married has good connection (6)
- 25 Applaud STD (4)
- 28 Rag scouser would not wipe his arse with? (3)
- 32 Duck with two degrees made President (5)
- 33 Some wager I chanced in Morecambe (4)
- 34 Scat remixed for cool kids (4)
- 35 Just nothing left in New York (4)
- 36, 41a Scientists feed insect unknown piece of meat (6)
- 37 Animal seen in spring — nothing odd about it (3)