GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2 Transfix (5)

9 Italian food (5)

13 Renown (4)

14 Intact (5)

15 African wild dog (5)

16 Show sullen

aloofness (4)

17 Badminton

projectile (11)

18 Official document entitling one to travel overseas (8)

20 True (8)

23 Addiction (5)

25 Three months (9)

26 Flower (9)

32 Spot (4)

34 Flighty person (15)

35 Second (4)

39 Root vegetables (8)

41 Proclaim (7)

42 Big grey animal (8)

43 Centre (5)

44 Restrict (5)

45 Discombobulate (5)

46 Ambassador (5)

50 Sudden emotional

release (8)

52 Sulphuric acid (7)

53 Rebuke (8)

57 Secure closed (4)

59 Freedom fighter (15)

60 Repast (4)

61 Articulate (9)

64 Circumference (9)

66 Hirsute (5)

67 Credulous (8) 72 Thin, pliable sheet of

tissue (8)

74 Delusions of

grandeur (11)

75 Children’s game;

leap — (4)

76 Flower (5)

77 Human trunk (5)

78 Melt, as snow (4)

79 Lobby (5)

80 Out of practice (5)

DOWN

1 Shining (7)

2 Retirement (9)

3 Recording (5)

4 Distort (5)

5 Concentrate (5)

6 Unbiased (7)

7 Mythical bird born of

ashes (7)

8 Pale yellow (5)

9 Weatherproof jacket

with a hood (5)

10 Of sound (5)

11 Forward (9)

12 Chowhound (7)

19 Determination (7)

21 Hide (7)

22 Annual race for threeyear-old horses (5)

24 Perhaps (5)

27 Pictographic letter (5)

28 Inheritor (11)

29 Plant stem (5)

30 Fear of open spaces (11)

31 Game of chance (5)

33 Genuine (9) 36 Variety of herbal tea (9)

37 Breastbone (7)

38 Point of view; belief (7)

40 Cleave lengthwise (5)

42 Additional (5)

47 Jovial (5)

48 Dress (5)

49 Leviathan (5)

51 Epicurean (7)

54 Hate (7) 55 Duck’s noise (5)

56 Genuflect (5)

58 Learning, erudition (9)

60 Motherhood (9)

61 Chickens, for example (7)

62 Canters (7)

63 Flog, in commercial

terms (7)

65 Restoration (7)

68 Chauvinist, racist (5) 69 Vacant (5)

70 Lithe (5)

71 Wroth (5)

72 Senior (5)

73 Negative (5)