5  Betting three notes on an implement (5)

 9  Is more than one (3)

10 Eclipse is a huge size, we hear (5)

11 Remove soap from broken siren (5)

12 Now employers have to be obliged (3)

13 Healthy colour in Istanbul (3)

14 Nod back at academic (3)

16 Relaxed during conversation (3)

18 Followed woman in the end (6)

21 Uncommon to be lightly cooked (4)

23 Darts player’s place in Rochester (4)

26 Fish right inside a ditch (6)

29 Talk of oxygen, say (3)

31 Fireman’s wrath (3)

32 Bother at a party (3)

34 Stopped around the summit (3)

36 Dull victory paid off (5)

37 Round bees, terribly fat (5)

38 Level with the first woman (3)

39 Peas cultivated round new tree (5)

40 Lures away from regulations (5)

 1  Sell pub to the heartless rector (6)

 2  A number from Marianne (4)

 3  Heard a singer’s note (6)

 4  Requires new seed to be used (5)

 5  School once cooked a cake (5)

 6  Wife is after exercise bench (3)

 7  Organise sale of drinks (4)

 8  Point a set out (4)

15 Furthest sort of route (5)

17 Has turned into a powder (3)

19 Catch in one trap (3)

20 Snow White’s medical friend (3)

22 Silver on a stove (3)

24 Fellow joins the Spanish church (6)

25 Wears down queen with poems (6)

27 Get ready to tear directions (5)

28 Not once was nerve lost (5)

29 Girl at a party (4)

30 Cease sending post (4)

33 Go down into seedy joint (4)

35 Nobel’s prize (3)