The House

7×7×7 · 50 entries

Grids — one sheet per Z layer

Z 1

123
456
78
91011

Z 2

1213
1415
16
17181920

Z 3

21222324
25
26
27

Z 4

Z 5

282930313233
34
35
36

Z 6

37

Z 7

38394041
42
43
44

A square marked also carries a letter of a Through answer running through the sheets.

Clues

Across

1Woodwind found in two Boers (4)
4Ruth, upset, and wounded (4)
9The law that says it will go wrong, and a spud (6)
21Later, rearranged, and on the lookout (5)
25Time to relax, and to mock (5)
26Closed, with time and the French: it goes to and fro (7)
27Bury it in winter's heart (5)
28Twice arctic, and swinging between the two (7)
34A senator, turned, commits it (7)
35A soft spot on the internet, and much the same (5)
36The night before, and the first woman (3)
37Ring, or the man who invented the telephone (4)
39Without purpose, in solid lying (4)
43Crossed the water, one, and here is the holy man (5)
44Chose the editor, and he got in (7)

Down

2A branch, then time, and it was paid for (6)
3East, disturbed, and it consumes (4)
7A Member of Parliament turns it up (3)
8Exist, as era does backwards (3)
21The painter, one caught, and altogether creative (8)
22Energy put on a valuation: size it up (8)
23Time for the radiators, and these are where the plays are, in America (8)
24Died, one, a parking machine, and it runs right across (8)
28It flies at night, or you hold it at the crease (3)
29Before taking sides, one chaired the meeting (8)
31Attend, then hesitate, and here is the one at the radio (8)
33Telephone the team, and get the best seat at the fight (8)
35Out, a mess, and it is the American car (4)
38Set SOS adrift, and it pitches about (6)
40A tin day, badly organised, turns out delicate (6)
41Gives way, and what the harvest does (6)
42Grab it, and the director wants another (4)

Through

2Preserved in glass, or lost one's nerve (7)
3A churchman, a learner and an unknown: all rather old (7)
5Ruses, reworked, for the people on the app (5)
6Teach, then a couple of Es, and here is the learner (7)
9A muddle, then an era, and here is the text (7)
10Uterine, awkwardly, and brought together again (7)
11A warm exam, and the most so (7)
12Talk on and on, like the animal in the hat (6)
13Sounds like the doctor, and it goes anywhere (4)
14Says so, and where the President lives (6)
15Arrived with the artists, and took the picture (6)
16Poetry with a duke, and well up in it (6)
17The one Americans plead, and the note after the fourth (5)
18Soak it, on a sharp slope (5)
19Time to regret it, and that is a fact (4)
20A bear, or Roosevelt (5)
30Sash found in Nairobi (3)
32Everything, in a small way (3)