Complete Clue List
Across
1. Fate-decider. One of twelve
4. Throw something out forcibly (eg an unwanted passenger in a silver Aston Martin)
7. Polite title for a man from India
10. Cypriot capital (is no salad)
11. Bodies suspended off fixed points so that they can swing back and forth (going nowhere constantly)
12. Representative (and if they're special they can work for the FBI)
13. Tennis shot with a high trajectory
15. Tall (when its head is not in the sand) flightless bird
16. Remove by effort (or what you do to yeast to make Vegemite or pale imitation Marmite)
17. Infamous German POW camp near Krakow, Poland
20. Mongrel dog or a cowardly man (is not quite rudely brief)
21. Prohibition (US) barroom (where conversation flows loquaciously)
23. Kilmer (US actor) OR McDermid Scottish crime novelist
24. Talkativeness (only a chatterbox could find a way to work such an obscure word into a sentence)
27. Samantha's daughter (both twitchy)
29. A Colombian cowboy (doesn't herd Llamas)
31. French team meaning 'from gold' (almost makes an entrance)
32. Move with a hissing or rushing sound (like a Nike)
34. Opioid, brand name Demerol, for severe pain relief. Infrequently prescribed contemporaneously
36. Ability to move quickly and easily (ie Move like Jagger)
37. European currency (a bit bigger than the national Polish airline)
38. An almost archaic word meaning a broad strip of something eg cloth or countryside
39. Mike, boxer (bit off more than he could chew)
Down
1. Military or political entity that rules a country after forcefully evicting the incumbent
2. Cathedral & castle Kent (UK) town OR city in MN with a clinic OR NY city with a photographic memory
3. Italian-origin girl's name (that sinks like an Egyptian stone)
4. (More than a chip on the shoulder,) part of a uniform denoting military rank
5. Initially a sixth sense (but just short of a TV sports network)
6. Fibrous tissues that attach muscles to bones (might just be your Achilles heels)
7. Short and disproportionally wide OR to crouch on one's haunches
8. Harry, escaped for a living
9. Dutch painter OR German engineering and technology company (Take your pick but not both)
14. Musical peas that sure can rap (5-4)
16. Spreadsheet software program (does its job very well)
18. Grass and legumes stored for future livestock feed. (It's cut and dried!)
19. F. Scott's wife (became a princess. Peachy!)
21. Music genre: precursor to rocksteady/reggae (is pure Madness)
22. Consequences following a significant unpleasant event
23. Makes glassy (to increase transparency)
25. Four in Italian or German automobile model
26. 'Tinkling the ____" means playing the piano
28. Guitar player (who has lost a couple of strings from their instrument)
29. Jennifer, actress (married Ben, actor) "Gigli"
30. Davison or Blunt both influential Britons
33. Joseph, Austrian composer. Chamber music. (No, he didn't drop an 'E' in his name to fit this CW)
35. Perón, Longoria or Cassidy