The Chronicle

JUMBO CROSSWORD: Number 940

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ACROSS

1 Fly larvae (7)

4 Destitute (4,3,3)

9 Energy sugar (7)

13 Pleased (4)

14 Fire-breathing monster (6) 15 Dwell (6)

16 Whim (7)

18 Large water body (3)

20 Very easy challenge (6,4) 21 Face jewellery (4,4)

22 Auctioneer's hammer (5) 25 Film theatre (6)

26 Sovereign's seat (6)

28 Arrest (9)

33 Even (8)

34 Scanty (6)

35 Badly behaved (7)

39 Actor (8)

40 Air trip (6)

41 Identify (4)

42 Content (5)

43 Mournful song (5)

46 Wealth acquired by illegal or unfair means (3-6,5)

53 Separated (5)

56 Parody (5)

57 Soothe (4)

58 Mutual (6)

59 Spanish gold coin (8)

62 Vividly descriptiv­e (7)

63 Display ostentatio­usly (6) 64 I gave ten (anag )(8)

67 Garden cutters (9)

69 Clockwork model of the solar system (6)

70 Motto (6)

74 Entire range (5)

75 Wealthy (8)

77 Uninterrup­ted (10)

81 Small viper (3)

83 Abundant (7)

84 Leapt (6)

85 Room to manoeuvre (6) 86 Long pointed tooth (4) 87 Let go (7)

88 Intense aversion (10)

89 Accounts checker (7)

DOWN

1 Sorcery (5)

2 Slope (8)

3 Handwritin­g (6)

4 Unquestion­ed doctrine (5) 5 Comes first (4)

6 Organise (7)

7 Stop doing (6)

8 Less than (5)

10 Rich soil (4)

11 Sure (7)

12 Clandestin­e (6)

17 Throat projection (5,5)

19 Irate (5)

23 House of ill repute (8) 24 Bundle of cornstalks (5) 25 Made (7)

27 German white wine (4) 29 Voracious fish (7) 30 Highly-seasoned preserved sausage (6) 31 Cardboard box (6) 32 Dazed state (6) 34 Power (5)

36 Hold firmly (5) 37 Equipment (4) 38 Warning sign (4) 44 Polluted (6) 45 Category (5)

47 Heavy metal (4)

48 Risk taker (7)

49 Thin paper (6) 50 Precise (5) 51 Foliage (8)

52 Uses a gun (6)

53 In two minds about (10) 54 Tiny particle (4) 55 Stress (7)

60 Essential (5) 61 Laboratory gel (4) 65 Muscular (5) 66 Unaware of (8) 68 Learned (7) 69 Eight-sided figure (7) 71 Wheedle (6)

72 Feeling of having experience­d a situation before (4,2)

73 Layers (6) 76 Peals (anag)(5) 78 Excessivel­y fat (5) 79 Sweeten (5) 80 Ado (4) 82 Blueprint (4)

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