Lent on Easter

The grid for the March puzzle Lent on Easter can be found here: March blank

Clues:

Across

1, and 8 across. Junior Officer has no beginnings as a Gospel writer. (4)

2. Fewer within your sleeping place makes you happy in God! (7)

8. See 1 across.

10. I say, be wild and archaic: expiates from sin. (5)

11. Online right away. Right right right away! (3)

13. Basilica coadjutor cross with chocolate tree. (5)

16. Our Lady invites. (2)

18. The upset are indignant. (3)

19. Here begins a holy utopian Welshman. (3)

21. Back an ad from Italy? (2)

22. The general drift of a male singing voice. (5)

24. Vortex ascending across the southern state. (5)

26. Angels waver in the corners. (6)

28. Red mat folded in sleeping vision. (6)

29. Art left off road. (2)

30. Hay mask turned up on Turkish veil. (7)

32. See. Even Sweden is on line. (2)

33. The ulna, a broken timber? (5)

34. Small – small. (3)

36. One noggin in front. (5)

39. Eaten dialect? (2)

41. Why write off any one article? (2)

42. Abroad, old son! (2)

44. Unexpected ordination to begin with. (2)

45. A crazy canon in a unit for announcing big news! (12)

 

Down

1. Yes: German jaw right away. (2)

3. Send sixth note to Californian city. (2)

4. To be a mixed electronic ship? (5)

5. New York City’s shaken up and keeps time together. (4)

6. Psalms’ mystery pause to unravel leash? (5)

7. Even so, in short, not from W.A. (2)

9. Not right away, but still negative. (2)

12. To vary a consecrated vow? (6)

13. Wheat cross for sincere almsgiving? (6)

14. Nor Tau twisted will come first in race. (6)

15. The gnarled seer at the resurrection. (6)

17. Season in plenty. (4)

18, & 20 across. The whole key mysteriously leading up to Easter? (4,4)

20. See 18 across.

21. Breeding mothers holding water in the paddocks. (4)

23. Non-governmental Chinese family? (2)

25. Golden Dawn politicians Xeroxed all to begin with? (2)

27. Steam Ship Ash? (5)

28. Start with the Directory of Marcion at the Ancient Library of Alexandria. (5)

31. Hire MU to break upper arms! (6)

35. Ape squashing vegetable! (3)

36. Mary’s mother in the annals. (3)

37. The point in the anecdote. (3)

38. Little Norway. (2)

40. Tammin? In Tunisia? (2)

41. Aussie gold! (2)

43. So irreproachable, the Jesuits!

44. Not the United Nations? (2)