Complete Clue List
Across
1. Common duck
5. Became aware
9. Poem
10. State capital of Michigan
11. Wordsworth or Shakespeare?
12. Illuminated
13. Rise out of the water
16. Fish-eating birds
19. Severe pain
21. Benediction
23. Close
25. With 5 down, Potter character or physicist (5,6)
26. Spider's trap
27. 31st US President
29. Willow
32. Olympic field event (4,3)
35. Crustacean
38. Remove
39. Stir up
40. Communicated in writing
41. ABBA song
42. Patterned linens
43. Occupiers
Down
1. Indecisive young male
2. Of the moon
3. Japanese dog breed
4. Tight bend in route
5. See 25 across
6. Dutch flower
7. Ravine, or backbone in meat
8. Heavyweight boxing champ, 1919-26
14. Long-handled device for killing insects
15. Reindeer
17. Electrical device, a type of transformer
18. Causes
20. Hoofed animal
22. Friend of Winnie the Pooh
24. Short farewell
26. Milk and egg-based sauce
28. Screen found in church
30. Emphasise
31. Of greatest age
33. Drug obtained from poppy
34. Pomaceous fruits
36. Organ of the body
37. Claw