JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Daily record (5)

4 As good as new; perfect (2,4,9)

14 Expunge (5) 15 Japanese capital (5) 16 Facts and figures (10) 17 Sparkle (5) 19 Terminate (3)

20 Filming devices (7) 21 During pregnancy (9) 22 Make or become gentler (6) 25 Wages container (3,6) 27 Dense equatorial forest (6) 28 Adolescents (6) 33 Star-gazing instruments (10)

35 Donkey (3)

36 Former US president (6) 37 Press (4)

39 Digit (3)

41 Dry white burgundy wine (7) 42 Japanese war cry (6) 43 Alteration (9)

44 Former French monetary unit (5)

45 Short amusing account (8) 50 Via (2)

51 Notorious (8)

55 Canal boat (5) 58 Janitor (9)

59 Skilful, deft (6) 60 Flower dealer (7)

61 One of the Seven Dwarfs (3) 63 Aquatic bird (4) 64 Whole (6)

65 Peppery (3)

66 Thrifty (10)

68 Cricket team (6)

69 Put in position (6) 71 Interplanetary craft (9) 76 Suited (anag) (6) 77 Charge-holding electrical device (9)

79 Keyboard player (7) 81 Cereal crop (3) 84 Mound of stones as a memorial (5) 85 Egg-shaped (10) 86 Yellowy pigment (5) 87 Permission (5)

88 Give free reign to one’s youthful excess (3,4,4,4)

89 African country (5)

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2 Weather map line (6) 3 Poem (5)

5 Fish traps (4) 6 Severe, acute (7) 7 Sampled by mouth (6) 8 Séance board (5) 9 Contempt, scorn (7) 10 Labels (4)

11 US state (6) 12 Sanctuary (5) 13 Blushes (7) 14 Strong feeling (7) 18 Frothy coffee (10) 23 Range (5)

24 Yearly calendar (7) 26 Astringently sour (7) 27 Show adequate grounds for doing (7) 29 Underwater missile (7) 30 Peacock’s mate (6) 31 Cereal crop (5)

32 Inn (6)

34 Join line (4)

36 Make less strict (5) 38 Paper money (5) 40 Concept (4) 45 Sparked across (5) 46 Pain in head (7) 47 Information (4) 48 Stealing (6) 49 Newlywed (5) 50 Stranded out of water (7) 52 Camaraderie (10) 53 Cocktail (7) 54 Dethrone (6) 55 Writing for the blind (7) 56 Ire (5) 57 Workbench clamp (4) 62 Put into words (5) 67 Salad vegetable (7) 68 Gemstone (7) 70 French castle (7) 72 Condition attached to an agreement (7) 73 Country bordering the US (6)

74 Disperse, drive away (6) 75 Fish hawk (6)

76 Rot (5) 78 Incandescent (5) 80 Recess (5) 82 Exclusively (4) 83 Immense (4)