The Chronicle

JUMBO CROSSWORD: Number 919

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ACROSS

1 Tastes (7)

4 Bad behaviour (10)

9 Crime (7)

13 Small whirlpool (4)

14 Colonise (6)

15 Master, dab hand (6)

16 Fruit tree group (7)

19 Sentry (7)

20 An apparent misfortune that turns out later to be a boon (8,2,8)

21 Handwritin­g (6)

22 Vow (6)

24 Men-only do (4,5)

29 Spring flower (8)

30 Free (6)

31 Outfit (7)

35 Grandiloqu­ence (8)

36 Habitual user (6)

37 Chew at (4)

38 Judge’s hammer (5)

39 Plant fluid (3)

41 Surrender (5)

43 Fish (6)

47 Kingdom (5)

50 Label (3)

54 Water vapour (5)

55 Skin eruption (4)

56 Defensive covering (6)

57 Cross-examine (8)

60 Big cat (7)

61 Hissed (anag)(6)

62 Contestant finishing second (6-2)

65 Misappropr­iated money under one’s control (9)

67 Low room (6)

68 Fold mark (6)

72 Bill at exorbitant prices (6,2,3,3,1,3)

75 Humdrum (7)

77 Count in (7)

78 Interment (6)

79 Rabbit hole (6)

80 Formal dance (4)

81 Annoying (7)

82 Used (6-4)

83 Golf match spectators (7)

DOWN

1 Tumefy (5)

2 So-so (8)

3 Detective (6)

4 Put into storage or on hold for an indefinite period (10) 5 Vista (5)

6 Supervise (7)

7 Fragrant flower (6)

8 Welsh dog (5)

10 Presage, indicate by signs (10)

11 Tire out (7)

12 Stroke lovingly (6)

17 Required by rule (10)

18 Proverb (5)

21 Residentia­l areas (7)

23 Misleads, takes in (7)

25 Darting pain (6) 26 Swot up (6)

27 Military display (6)

28 Single-celled animal (6) 30 Interrogat­e (5)

32 City transport (4)

33 Seaweed (4)

34 Lose colour (4)

40 Off course (6) 42 Metal with symbol Pb (4) 44 Disinteres­t (6)

45 Viral disease (5) 46 Non-partisan (7) 48 Astuteness (6) 49 Masked ball (10)

50 Clip (4)

51 Bona fide (7) 52 Treaty (4) 53 Selection (6) 58 Public vote (10)

59 At risk (10) 63 Stratosphe­ric layer (5) 64 Covertly undermine or damage (8)

66 Small glass balls (7) 67 Hugged lingeringl­y (7) 69 Black eye (6) 70 Gambling house (6) 71 Concentrat­ed (6) 73 Way, course taken (5) 74 Country with Tripoli (5) 76 Ridiculous (5)

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