5  Key presenter has spirit (5)

 9  Strong utterance about stomach (3)

10 Dog residing with monsters (5)

11 Vegetable doesn’t start as a missile (5)

12 Low-flying bird (3)

13 Supporter of golf (3)

14 The gondolier’s conceit (3)

16 Choose a new pot (3)

18 Burning fame, working around city (6)

21 Total zero at sport (4)

23 Creature right in the mist (4)

26 Tell engineers about tale (6)

29 Appearing to have food (3)

31 Ready for collection (3)

32 Enemy keeps iron ring inside (3)

34 Talk of nitrogen, say (3)

36 Fruit that’s round, as it happens (5)

37 A profit once more (5)

38 Catch in one trap (3)

39 Betting fish had a shower (5)

40 Paradoxical odds (5)

 1  A portal’s made of stones (6)

 2  Certain to use ruse (4)

 3  Master new river (6)

 4  Draw on the Spanish cloth (5)

 5  Husband of horse attendant (5)

 6  Cut in the wages (3)

 7  Capital of Czechoslovakia (4)

 8  Contented with the accommodation (4)

15 Bag overturned on the French ornament (5)

17 In favour of compromise (3)

19 On behalf of a number, say (3)

20 Deftly surround amphibian (3)

22 Roused about employment (3)

24 Distil in free style (6)

25 Welcomes German tree’s cultivation (6)

27 Easy to work with small composition (5)

28 Compensate by sending a note (5)

29 Don’t answer, just overtake (4)

30 A rag used as a thickening agent (4)

33 Hot place in Coventr (4)

35 Silver on a stove (3)