| Clues down |
| 1 | Noisy, slightly mad person in Scottish tribe is placed over leader of Democrats – wishful thinking? (5,6,4) |
| 2 | Here’s someone to take your call: “Pinhole is developed in test” (11) |
| 3 | Talc she spilled in school-bag (7) |
| 4 | Material? Companion of Honour holds great quantity (5) |
| 5 | Air passage rots badly when surrounded by nothing (7) |
| 6 | Camel bit me unexpectedly. Is this symbolic? (10) |
| 7 | Stand-in for leading character even I scripted differently (4-9) |
| 8 | Subject for discussion plucked from the memory (5) |
| 9 | Bovine animal carried by Scotsman – one who went to ancient university (7) |
| 10 | Fair? I’m biased! (9) |
| 11 | Edits, changing “ocean currents” (5) |
| 17 | Girl’s flowers seen as complete failures (9) |
| 19 | Indignant, like a locomotive ready to go? (7,2) |
| 20 | Member of the royal bodyguard is a decent sort of chap with a smart turnout (9-2-4) |
| 22 | Insect found in flower-stem, messing things up (5) |
| 24 | Heroin hobo dug out in this locality (13) |
| 25 | Two small firms with a brown powder (5) |
| 28 | Edits, changing “people” – to what end? (11) |
| 29 | Interrogated roughly. Nosed? Quite! (10) |
| 31 | In charge, going round the author of “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”, mostly (9) |
| 35 | Small bird making cat toil, perhaps (4,3) |
| 37 | Jailbird with no conscience? No, the other way round – a matter of chemistry, maybe (7) |
| 39 | Arrived at acre he’d ploughed (7) |
| 40 | To do with birth in one-time African colony (5) |
| 41 | Not here, but in the regimental barracks (5) |
| 43 | Takes trip around French city (5) |
