Across
6A cute little angle, and a sharp one (5)
9Stave off the goddess who keeps the fire (5)
16Caught a yob, and that carries some influence (5)
19Boredom found in a wooden nuisance (5)
22Batman's mate, a bird (5)
23A quarrel with one following, up a tree (5)
24Official hesitates, and passes it on (5)
28Motorway to the Russian mountains — it's a wall painting (5)
29A spine, and you are taken by surprise (5)
34Grand production hidden in a Europe race (5)
35Writer, then Capone: a punishing system (5)
36Caught in the edit — it's an order (5)
37Freewheel along the shore (5)
39About to place, and pass it on (5)
40Sounds like an island, but you walk down it (5)
41Charges include caught, and what a nasty mess (5)
42Bind up — or the Prime Minister who didn't (5)
Down
1Cry it, and let slip the dogs of war (5)
3A blast of wind, then nothing, done with relish (5)
5Fine, going east, for a blow-out (5)
19Slip up, then gold: a mistake (5)
20No, so E, all tangled — a hanging matter (5)
21Pub, then hesitation, and that's more central (5)
25I meet a wizard, and here's the picture (5)
26Across, briefly, at the front of transport (5)
27Cat turns up with it — say no more (5)
30Poems rewritten get gloomy (5)
31Information, that is, out of the lamp (5)
32React differently to the faintest sign (5)
33Old sailor, unknown, and a bit tart (5)
37Skill enough to build a boat (5)
38Society drinks, and the figures go up (5)
Through
2Opening found in pain, trouble (5)
4Targets, or what is left of the cigarettes (5)
5Rifts resolved put you in the lead (5)
6Weapon plus gold: protection, American style (5)
7A takeover, with energy, and here's the car (5)
8Raita, stirred, becomes a crown (5)
10Society grows pale over the royal birds (5)
11Lean king, twisted — it's a joint (5)
12A team's remark not meant to be heard (5)
13Weight, one caught, and that's a pick-me-up (5)
14We, with a tic, shake, on two occasions (5)
15Society dines and takes its places (5)
16Caught the rest at the top (5)
17Repel, in a new form: the outcast (5)
18Stray about with what the waiter carries (5)