The Cairns Post

JUMBO CROSSWORD

15/9

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ACROSS

1 Business transactio­ns (5)

4 Remedial alcoholic drink the morning after (3,4,2,3,3)

14 Cove (5)

15 Swedish car make (5) 16 War vessel (10)

17 Water channel (5)

19 Soaked (3)

20 Dull, routine (7)

21 Dancer’s spin (9)

22 Tension (6)

25 Accumulate­d learning (9)

27 Tranquil (6)

28 Holmes’s helper (6) 33 Boxed confection

(10)

35 Falsehood (3)

36 Breed of hound (6)

37 Suspend (4)

39 Alcoholic drink (3)

41 Short high-pitched noises (7)

42 Substance which turns litmus blue (6)

43 Beyond normal limits (9) 44 Welded (5)

45 Use irons (anag)(8) 50 Belonging to (2)

51 Military foray (8)

55 Head skin (5)

58 Yellow flower (9)

59 Sufficient (6)

60 Snubbed (7)

61 Tavern (3)

63 Check and correct (4) 64 Collision (6)

65 Sick (3)

66 Iteration (10)

68 Noon (6)

69 Traveller’s complaint (3,3)

71 French cheese (9)

76 Paris tower (6)

77 Asymmetry (9)

79 Return to a former state (7)

81 Express in words (3) 84 Flower (5)

85 Right to enter (10)

86 Smell (5)

87 Séance board (5)

88 An ever-present danger (5,2,8)

89 Kingdom (5)

DOWN

2 Mass departure (6)

3 Furiously angry (5)

5 Cure (4)

6 Striking (7)

7 Refrigerat­or compartmen­t (6)

8 Yellowish pigment (5) 9 Betting adviser (7)

10 Engrave with acid (4) 11 Highly decorated (6) 12 Imperfecti­ons (5)

13 Train stop (7)

14 Criminal (7)

18 Cold crystals (10)

23 Marks from impacts (5)

24 Got caught on (7)

26 Atomic (7)

27 US star-wearer (7)

29 A language of Africa

(7)

30 Bank order (6)

31 Overgarmen­t (5)

32 Lively high-kicking stage dance (6)

34 Song for one (4)

36 Collect together (5) 38 Putting area (5)

40 Continent (4) 45 Illustriou­s (5)

46 Not tested (7)

47 Had debts (4)

48 Financial gain (6)

49 Addiction (5)

50 Aperture (7)

52 Food group (10)

53 Skeet participan­t (7) 54 Type of wildcat (6)

55 Presiding officer in a legislativ­e assembly (7) 56 Planet (5)

57 Laboratory gel (4)

62 Increased (5)

67 Crisp lustrous fabric (7)

68 Assignment (7)

70 Back problem (7)

72 Antiquated (7)

73 Jaundiced (6)

74 Small domestic fowl breed (6)

75 Handy (6)

76 Eagle’s nest (5)

78 Carrying weapons (5) 80 Wash out (5)

82 Box (4)

83 Throb (4)

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