Complete Clue List
Across
1. Imagine: mystery (6)
5. Dispute: advantages (6)
9. Saga: hot air (3)
11. Agrarian: river boundary between Ontario and New York (7)
12. Knollers: signs up (var., 7)
13. Dyer: rare colour? (3)
15. Enclose: "Hold your horses!" (3,3)
17. Bogeyed: followed the leader (6)
18. Broached: scanner reading (3,4)
19. Terms: once, long ago (4)
22. Diets: bad day for Caesar (4)
24. Singletons: baby birds (9)
25. Atoms: brewer's kiln (4)
27. Image: star followers (4)
30. Slimiest: arrogant attitude (7)
32. Defamer: "Goodness!" (4,2)
33. Ladders: burden with (6)
34. Real: big time (3)
36. Ordained: contacted by shortwave (7)
37. Rebating: heading (7)
38. Leal: completely (3)
39. Impound: speaker's spot (6)
40. Greenly: power (6)
Down
2. Canteens: puts in order (7)
3. Abridge: 2nd best (5,1)
4. Aargh: Petri dish filler (4)
5. Duets: spent (4)
6. Bickers: journalist, informally (6)
7. Aldehyde: late (7)
8. Dungeon: ruined (6)
10. Disease: digressions (6)
14. Catalogers: nonstop flight? (9)
16. Upscales: pill (7)
17. Godsends: idiosyncrasy (7)
20. Arty: hand-woven Scandinavian rug (3)
21. Nett: demolition stuff (init., 3)
22. Aims: belief system (3)
23. Gage: bird-to-be (3)
25. Rewords: commands (6)
26. Don't stay: get ready for action (5,2)
28. Dawdling: throwing into confusion (7)
29. Elegiac: big chill (3,3)
30. Embroil: blood clots (6)
31. Manmade: married Frenchwoman (6)
34. Named: Dutch cheese (4)
35. Belay: skilled (4)