2711: Homework
Across
1 Magnificent place featured in dispatch papers (8)
15 Wrongdoer relinquishes first secret (5)
16 Cut some garlic (5)
17 Stomachs filled with endlessly bad, bad feelings (6)
18 Young lad bored by love before long (4)
21 Housing activity on course to increase (7,2)
22 To become stronger, senator takes time away from work (7)
26 Blue uniform accepted by a cleaner, possibly (9)
30 Advance payments – one way to eke out a living (7)
32 Misguided negotiator dismissing one ordinary form of crowd control (4,5)
34 Left in charge, do a runner (4)
35 Fantastic nectar from a Mediterranean island (6)
37 Tiny particle to attach with paste, we're told (5)
38 Old, mostly long-legged primate (5)
40 Everyone's initially taken in by celebrity's looks (6)
41 Health resort next to some French digs (6)
42 Pretentious food regularly 'poshed up' at first (8)
Down
1 Line ignored by individual small chars (6)
2 Reason colonel turned up to protect soldier (5)
3 Be flipping nasty (4)
4 Proficient fighters ultimately found MMA competition pointless (4)
5 Somewhat nicer, undulating winter track (3,3)
7 Scripts primarily penned by better comedian (7)
8 Gallons freely imbibed by a non-drinker, finally (2,4,4)
9 Renoir worked with extremely grainy, pale colour (4,4)
12 Designated part of hospital managed to support it (8)
19 Tomato sauces served up with instant veg (5,4)
20 Drunk blacked out a lot (10)
24 University doctor has outbursts and feelings of resentment (8)
25 Disease causing swelling and foul scar, sadly (8)
27 Basketball play indicated by line through a circle (5-3)
29 Pin destroys parts of maps (7)
30 Scoffs starters of salted nuts and really fresh salad (6)
31 Be impressive, but not as fashionable (6)
33 Some computer installations for early development sites? (5)
35 Lawyer's job is objective, perhaps (4)
36 Say a dead oath from back in the day (4)
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