JUMBO CROSSWORD: 881
ACROSS
1 Maintain strict control in an operation, business (3,1,5,4)
8 Not take no for an answer (6)
14 Beau (5)
15 Sleeping problem (8)
16 Meat patty (7)
17 Vestige (5)
18 Depressed (3)
19 Infatuated (7)
21 Severity (9)
22 Thwart (6)
25 Youth (10)
27 Word for word (8)
28 Employ (6)
31 Double-sized wine bottle (6) 33 Made an estimate (7)
34 Silver-white metal (6)
35 Complacent (4)
37 Clinging plant (3)
39 Pet bird’s home (4)
40 Tidiest (7)
41 Kept up (9)
42 Educates (7)
43 Gemstone (8)
48 Secretly (2,3,3)
52 Amassed a nest egg (5,2) 56 Very unhappy (9)
57 Seek (4,3)
58 Counterfeit (4)
59 Donkey (3)
60 Business transaction (4)
61 Rabbit burrow network (6) 62 French castle (7)
63 Adventurous courage (6) 65 Meat pin (6)
66 Timetable (8)
68 Half a sixpence (10)
71 Be indecisive (6)
72 Roast lamb dressing (4,5) 74 Russian empress (7)
76 Animal covering (3)
79 Unworldly (5)
80 This evening (7)
81 Goodbye for now (2,6)
83 Foolish (5)
84 Interfere (6)
85 Race-starting chant (5,6,2)
DOWN
2 Anonymous (7)
3 Approximately (5)
4 Public house (3)
5 Principal (4)
6 Reinforced (12)
7 Matter in question (5)
8 Disinclination to move (7) 9 Locale (4)
10 Meagre (6)
11 Moral tale (5)
12 Interlace (7)
13 Pungent sauce (11)
14 Portion (7)
20 Financial gain with little effort (4,5)
23 Estrange (anag) (8) 24 Exchange views on (7) 26 Merciful (7)
27 Calls in on (6)
29 Marzipan ingredient (7) 30 Reduce (6)
32 Warning device (5)
34 Synthetic fibre (5)
36 Scatterbrained (5)
38 German composer (4) 43 Carrying weapons (5) 44 Leavens (anag)(7) 45 Arduous (4) 46 Pedestrian tunnel (6) 47 Of birds (5)
48 With one’s defences down (3,5)
49 Fatigue (9)
50 Compel compliance with (7)
51 Compare (5) 52 Confidentiality (7) 53 Reducing the price of (11) 54 Gladden (6)
55 Tamed (12)
64 Fate (7) 65 Concerned chiefly or only with yourself (7) 67 Long letter (7) 69 Shrewd (7) 70 Formula (6) 71 Witty (5) 73 Debate (5) 75 Enthused wildly (5) 77 Contained (4) 78 Deep voice (4) 82 Regret (3)