JUMBO CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Decorative (5)

4 In open enmity, ready to attack one’s enemy (2,7,5) 11 Thoughts (5)

14 Bid (5)

15 Having no intelligible meaning (11) 16 Suffocating (8)

19 Skull (7)

20 Happen afterwards (5) 21 Make worse (9)

24 Dusk (9)

26 Make longer (6) 27 Danger (6)

31 Placates (5) 32 Mind-affecting drug (8) 34 Chief rabble-rouser, mutineer (10)

38 Passed out (7) 39 Looking-glass (6) 40 Shouted (6)

41 Meat from cow (4) 42 Quandary (7) 45 Requiring minimum exertion (10)

50 Percussionist (7) 54 Imminent (4)

55 Plan (6)

56 Against (6) 57 European country (7) 60 Science and technology of metals (10)

61 Kidnap for enforced service at sea (8)

62 Wet (5)

65 Feeling concern or interest (6)

66 Technique (6) 67 Kitchen implement (9) 72 Fatigue (9)

73 Wash soap out (5) 74 Surgeon’s blade (7) 79 Begin to understand (6,2) 80 Domed building for displaying and studying the heavens (11)

81 Deadly (5) 82 Autographs (5) 83 On prescribed medication (5,3,6)

84 Serpent (5) DOWN 2 Have sufficient money for (6) 3 Dirt-free (5)

5 God of thunder (4)

6 Store for weapons, ammunition etc (7) 7 Mental giant (6) 8 Surprise attack (4) 9 Board game (8) 10 Endemic (6)

11 Smitten (10)

12 Heinous (4)

13 Espied (7) 17 Japanese dish (5) 18 Rules of personal conduct (10)

22 Edible internal animal parts (5)

23 Nightmare (3,5)

25 Huge (7)

26 Extracted passage (7) 28 Hunting expedition (6) 29 Home sound system (6) 30 Concurred (6)

33 Rock face (5) 35 Make mention of (5) 36 Side (4)

37 Cow shelter (4) 42 Hard-wearing fabric (5) 43 Surgical tie (8) 44 Grow by addition (6) 45 Non-deciduous trees (10) 46 Electric cable (4) 47 Swotted up (7) 48 Grubs (6) 49 Smarted (5)

51 Coral bank (4) 52 Captain of industry (7) 53 Of a horse (6) 58 Defamatory (10) 59 Thorns (5)

63 He painted his mother (8) 64 Be equal to (5) 65 Options (7)

68 Of the stomach (7) 69 Gilded bronze (6) 70 Forsaken (6) 71 Comment (6) 75 Memorise (5)

76 Adult male deer (4) 77 Unit of length (4) 78 Aniseed-flavoured spirit (4)