Crossword Centre Prize Puzzle March 2022

 Endless Shame by Chalicea

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   3,31 made a false claim then 21,22 claimed to be 8,11 (7,3,4,2,4) all unclued. Solvers must highlight in the grid what each of them was ultimately recognised to be.

Across

    2    Melancholy Yankee finally receives airmail letters (6)

    7    Good, right and at heart apropos to critically examine wrestling hold (6)

    12    Gran consuming a type of bread (4)

    13    Will's bedraggled bream regularly smeared with cooking fat (8)

    14    Dishonest scheme US backed for trees (6)

    16    One who ran errands once; base eastern Scottish porter (5)

    17    A French bastard made someone hobble and was not censured (8)

    18    Penned in Soho, undisciplined dog (5)

    19    Heartily suspects one variable English weight of long ago (5)

    20    Dismal time lacking ten cents for cubes of glass (6)

    23    Rejected vessel's advance payment (4)

    24    Give money to pay for something - special soft object (5)

    26    Direction repeated; enough said for bard (4)

    29    Dialect phrase so thoughtfully used (7)

    32    The fault of mostly the Crawley family's abbey (6, 2 words)

    33    Phosphorus and iodine polymers occasionally found in Edinburgh's fireworks (6)

    35    Tropical tree in region around cape (5)

    36    A universal old Cypriot coin for a tax collector (5)

    37    Main ally in disarray physically (8)

    38    Casually reject police inspector's mark (5)

    39    Couple of parties consuming most of ray fish (6)

    40    Largish, going round centre of wheel and capable of being grasped (8)

    41    Always endlessly rigorous (4)

    42    Answer returned about European yapper (6)

    43    Be irked by countermanded orders college ignored (6, 2 words)

Down

    1    Labs say run-ups managed in a way that cannot be exceeded (13)

    4    Not the same as tribunal I keenly covered (7)

    5    Disorderly repayments, part dubiously missing for obedient followers (6)

    6    Appears upset for ducks (5)

    7    No dogma by arrangement for Benny, US clarinetist, King of Swing (7)

    9    See revolutionary composition for cityscapes (6)

    10    Old PM in charge - idyllic! (6)

    15    Let loose a rural swan (5)

    24    Conventionally represent with flair securing prizes essentially (7)

    25    Fees, we are told are mostly for the bard's one who settles business (7)

    26    Singular person with body covering - one who curses (7)

    27    Enclosure of disorderly clan welcomed by first lady (7)

    28    Street now and then mauled; brought to a standstill once (5)

    30    Not oddly, help busiest before end of service - worn out in Maxim's (6)

    32    In Glamis, stagger laddie inordinately (6)

    34    Put up special containers for storing small bolts on Clydeside (5)

To enter this competition, send your entry as an image or in list format including the highlighted cells, to ccpuzzles@talktalk.net before 8th April 2022. The first correct entry drawn from the hat will receive a book which has been donated by Chambers.