NUMBER 5

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