GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Derision (7)

5 Scales (7)

9 Blade affixed to firearm (7)

15 Thrift (7)

17 Jumped (5)

19 Result (7)

20 Oily fruit (5)

21 Hear (5)

22 Tried hard, struggled (7)

23 Annoy (5)

24 Sportsperson, e.g. Simone

Biles (7)

25 Conceal (4)

26 Shrimp (4)

27 Partially or wholly

coincide (7)

29 White ant (7)

30 Needle case (4)

32 Flightless bird of South

America (4)

33 Approval (6)

35 Salt or ester (7)

38 Soft colour (6)

41 Fastened a knot (4)

42 The Earth has two (4)

44 Consulate (7)

46 More intelligent (7)

48 Meeting (11)

50 Tip off, give notice (8)

51 Foe (8)

52 Hazardously (11)

55 Eagerly but wrongfully

desired (7)

57 Engulfs (7)

58 Australian salt lake (4)

59 Indonesian holiday isle (4)

60 Ability to see (6)

63 Team sport, usually

women’s or mixed (7)

65 Shut (6) 69 Use a sieve (4)

71 Luxury (4)

74 Honeybun (7)

77 Refuse (7)

78 Operatic melody (4)

79 Absent (4)

80 Petty (7)

82 Perch (5)

83 State government

leader (7)

84 Smell (5)

85 Likeness (5)

86 Substance used to close or

fasten objects (7)

87 Playground equipment (5)

88 Small country house (7)

89 Resisting openly (7)

90 Sparkle (7)

91 Breathed in (7)

DOWN

2 Having no smell (9)

3 Famous Tennessee city (9)

4 Artificial silk (5)

6 Maintained (7)

7 Variety of gypsum (9)

8 Tableware implements (7)

10 Between (5)

11 Tricks (9)

12 Calling forth (9)

13 Edginess (7)

14 Expose to the elements (7)

16 Environment (6)

18 Throw or hurl (6)

28 Trifling (5)

29 Records (5)

31 Self-reliant (11)

32 Able to be quelled (11)

34 Brazen (9)

36 Hack (4)

37 Aid, encourage (4) 39 Arbitrary or despotic (9)

40 Ideal (7)

43 Express objection (7)

45 Gap (5)

47 Tree (5)

48 Additionally (3)

49 Plaything (3)

53 Way out (4)

54 Tall plant cultivated for its

edible pods (4) 56 Thick (5)

57 Cut into small cubes (5)

61 Involve by suggestion (in

some matter) (9)

62 Fancied (9)

64 Student of living

organisms (9)

66 Group of musicians (9)

67 Get rid of entirely (9)

68 Rhapsody (7) 70 Long, narrow trench (6)

72 Personification (6)

73 Post-mission interview (7)

75 Sunshade (7)

76 Exhaustion (7)

81 Ancient tongue (5)

83 Kind of nut (5)