Across
- 3. Evens out chairs lost in dee (4,4)
- 4. Manage inferno replacing a learner with a master (4)
- 7. Business leader sprinted endless avenue (9)
- 8. Hello Roman things for audience (4,5)
- 10. He gets lost in showboat vapor (7,5,3)
- 12. Rook held back in felt sack (6)
- 15. Sprout around a scruffy brow (9)
- 17. Only old lies valued highly in odd comeuppance (9)
- 19. Hidden behind scar thoroughly (10)
- 20. Part of Birkenhead put up in preparation for space transformation (9,4)
- 21. Sports kit brings no end to Caesar's bad day (9)
- 22. Iron horse? (4)
- 23. Perused for auditors (3)
- 26. Genuflect then chop down (7)
- 29. Cook hot barm (7)
- 31. Angelic? Not so much (9)
- 32. Transaction caught canvas (4)
- 33. Leaders from Hungary are regularly denied key notes on transnational trade (4,5)
- 35. Ranchero not looking after fowl (5)
- 36. Demonstrate during pogo stick lesson (8)
- 37. Rebel revolts with a civil rights hero (9)
- 39. Remarkably no end to Golgotha (5,5)
- 41. French popstar meets entomological superhero (8,3)
Down
- 1. Unexpectedly thank turncoat (8,5)
- 2. Stag tucking into raised dipping bread (4,7)
- 5. Grow oddly breezy after middle-age (4)
- 6. Tom calls to put all the bad leaders in cells (8)
- 9. Anger loses energy but gains force in prison (4,4)
- 11. Greek Romeo dons waterproof hat in part (4,5)
- 13. Spooner's bunny boiler (5,4)
- 14. Mist closing in around tops of giant hills, hardly even accessible (6,4)
- 16. Start to think twice after throwing away the last of brandy (9)
- 18. Trimmed root vegetable, chef is gutted (7)
- 22. Dull entanglements are, by the sounds of it, a tryst gone wrong (4,6)
- 24. Vision all over the place in playground equipment (6,4)
- 25. Zero bins only camoflauge shipwreck survivor (8)
- 27. Stringed instrument suffuses original soundtrack playback (7)
- 28. Featured in felon's calendar (8)
- 30. Bananas absorb new unsavoury toast (9)
- 34. Tina's bandmate succeeds King George (5)
- 38. What democrats should do in elections, so they say (5,4)
- 40. Sporting group of competitors comes to beautiful meadow (9)