JUMBO CROSSWORD: Number 900
ACROSS
1 Baggy (5)
4 Elusive (8)
9 Pick (6)
14 Main (5)
15 Speak plainly and bluntly (4,1,5,1,5)
17 Duck for down (5)
18 Unreturnable serve (3)
19 Disregarded (7)
20 Saying aloud for the purpose of recording (9)
21 Drawing implement (6)
24 March stiff-legged (9)
25 Club (6)
26 Seat for two or more (6)
29 Inward breath (10)
31 Wane (3)
32 Rotate (6)
33 Lodgings (4)
35 Pale (3)
37 As well (4)
39 Fondly recall the past (9) 40 Delivery operation (9)
41 Tree (5)
42 Retaliatory action (8)
47 Done again (8)
51 Deep-seated anxiety (5)
55 Refused to do business with (9)
56 Very ill (2,1,3,3)
58 Action (4)
59 Track circuit (3)
60 Large plant (4)
61 Far away in space or time (6)
62 Truss (3)
63 Antagonist (anag)(10)
66 Shared, common (6)
67 River crossing (6)
69 Tourist (9)
72 Stringed instrument (6)
73 Disbelieving (9)
75 Sheath for handgun (7)
77 Leather-piercing tool (3)
80 Dark wood (5)
81 Go out in bad weather (5,3,8)
82 Wear away (5)
83 Expose (6)
84 Ghost expeller (8)
85 Majestic (5)
DOWN
2 Large ape (5-4)
3 Volley of shots (5)
5 Jump (4)
6 Foresee (7)
7 Readily satisfied (4,2,6)
8 Bread ingredient (5)
9 Removed dirt (7)
10 Portent (4)
11 Soaked through (6)
12 Last (5)
13 Transgression (7)
14 Noisy firework (7)
16 Spiny-backed dinosaur (11) 22 Light gas (6)
23 Enchant (7) 24 Alluring beauty, charm (7) 25 Spun woven trap (6)
27 Cut into three (7)
28 Go back on a promise (6) 30 Cat’s lives? (4)
32 Trap (5)
34 Church council (5)
36 Speed competition (4) 38 Fib (3) 42 Automaton (5)
43 Disbursement (7)
44 Pressing appliance (4) 45 Song of loyalty (6)
46 Nimble (5)
48 Wages container (3,8) 49 Accounts checker (7) 50 Day before (3)
51 Break from a meeting (7) 52 Walk very quietly (6) 53 Develop a liking for (4,1,5,2) 54 Deep singing voice (4) 57 Riches (6)
64 Large musical group (9) 65 Afternoon performance (7) 66 Mosque turret (7)
68 Unit of sound intensity (7) 70 Vividly descriptive (7) 71 Wheedle (6) 72 Murky darkness (5) 74 Serenity (5) 76 Strain (5) 78 Funeral fire (4) 79 Shambles (4)
QUICK QUIZ
1. Which US state is home to the Dazed and Confused students at Lee High School in the 1993 coming-of-age movie?
2. Infamous English prisoner Charles Bronson was played by which actor in the 2008 movie Bronson?
3. What is the name of Rebel Wilson’s character in the Pitch Perfect movies?
4. Hallelujah is a song written by which Canadian recording artist?
5. What is Australia’s tallest building?
6. Music group Aqua originated in which country?
7. Veronica Corningstone, Brian Fantana and Brick Tamland are all characters from which 2004 US comedy movie?
8. Which US actress plays April O’Neil in 2014 movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
9. Mimi Rogers married which US actor in 1987 (divorcing three years later)?
10. Which US magician and stuntman died of peritonitis on the Halloween of 1926?
11. Which US actress starred as Mia in The Princess Diaries?
12. US novelist Chuck Palahniuk wrote an awardwinning novel made into which 1999 movie?
13. Which US actress is Kevin Bacon married to?
14. Lucy Liu rose to fame in which US TV series?
15. What is the longest and strongest bone in the human body?
16. Which US actress played Debbie Jellinsky in Addams Family Values?
17. Who does Daenerys Targaryen become pregnant by in series one of Game of Thrones?
18. Dancing on the Ceiling is an album from which US singer?
19. Harry Bosch is a fictional LAPD detective in a series of novels by which US author?
20. How old was William Shakespeare when he died?