Across
- 3. Friars meet the Cooking Canon (5,6)
- 5. Organising thermals before the morning (10)
- 7. Liverpool river with a new beginning (6)
- 11. Making flour with footballer Joey or actress Mischa (6,5)
- 14. William Shakespeare is not ill (8)
- 15. Happy after cake? (6)
- 18. A book or your rights maybe? (4)
- 19. He has not won, quite the reverse (6)
- 27. An oven finishing in the north (6)
- 28. Pack away on a mountain perhaps? (10)
- 29. Romantic poet Percy (7)
- 31. John Silver is being followed by Ms. Giedroyc and the 38th US president (4,7)
- 33. Watching the author who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird (7)
- 34. A favourite of Winnie the Pooh with neck wear (5,3)
- 35. You can close these on a jar or in the garden (7)
- 38. Valued after nine (7)
- 39. The soft towel is arranged on the beach (9)
- 40. Mining for sheep? (7)
- 41. Soap and flannel in the stream (9)
Down
- 1. A singular dwelling (8)
- 2. Where to bury deceased chickens (8)
- 4. She prefers red wine and no tea (5)
- 6. Walsh or Wiggins when they were young (6,7)
- 8. Garden cart without a wheel (6)
- 9. The baddie in Pride & Prejudice sells goods (7,6)
- 10. Making sure the loaf is put on the scales (8)
- 12. It’s a heavy day after Wednesday (8)
- 13. Modern stalls (9)
- 14. Actor Pitt's crops catches fire (9,7)
- 16. A river crossing made of trees (9)
- 17. Violin I shall play (11)
- 20. Flowers, the lead singer of The Killers? (7)
- 21. Muddled sham law with the french trees (7,2,7)
- 22. Fighting Edward (6)
- 23. Without your Cortina (8)
- 24. Liquid granite? (10)
- 25. The misery surrounding nine (5)
- 26. Lead free checked fabric (6)
- 27. What Jack Ruby did to Harvey Oswald? (7)
- 28. Goalscorer for Blackburn and Norwich? Some may say who? (6,3)
- 30. Is the Foriegn Minister mixing with lodgers? (9)
- 32. A russet house (3,5)
- 36. Anna wanted to act on the stage (5)
- 37. Looking backwards and forwards for this town (3)