JUMBO CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Take an oath (5) 4 Abandon restraint, enjoy yourself (3,4,4,4) 14 Venomous snake (5) 15 Gum (5) 16 Hinged castle ramp (10)
17 Play for time (5) 19 Ovum (3) 20 Preserving liquid (7) 21 Smoked cylinder (9) 22 Request forcefully (6) 25 Shotgun shell (9) 27 Empties of liquid (6) 28 Black-and-white bird (6)
33 Cold continent (10) 35 Owns (3) 36 Hue (6) 37 Incentive (4) 39 Pair (3) 41 Incapacitate (7) 42 Treeless arctic plain (6)
43 Dying down (9) 44 Thoughts (5) 45 Coteries (anag)(8) 50 At home (2)
51 Sword sheath (8) 55 Dense (5)
58 Bona fide (9) 59 Every 12 months (6) 60 Science of bodily structure (7) 61 Unwell (3) 63 Blown instrument (4) 64 Rolled document (6) 65 Permit (3) 66 blasé (10) 68 Against (6) 69 Feverishly active (6) 71 Timid, lily-livered (9) 76 Hot-tasting food additive (6)
77 Exercising weights
(9) 79 Engraving with acid (7)
81 Falsehood (3) 84 Encouraged (5) 85 Freak of nature (10) 86 Engineer’s block (5) 87 Tries out (5) 88 In a tricky or awkward situation (2,1,6,6)
89 Bus station (5)
DOWN
2 Grain pest (6) 3 Living (5) 5 Acquire by effort (4) 6 Showing tiredness (7) 7 Imaginary (6) 8 Fence of live shrubs (5)
9 Disposition to remain inactive (7) 10 Nightfall (4) 11 Dilute (6) 12 Moved gradually, furtively (5)
13 Easily damaged (7) 14 Farmer’s calendar (7) 18 Fastidious (10) 23 Restrict (5) 24 Perpetual (7) 26 Stubbornly resolute (7)
27 Contempt (7) 29 Red condiment (7) 30 Gastropods (6) 31 Tell off (5) 32 Canadian province (6)
34 Border against (4) 36 Celestial body (5)
38 Inflexible (5) 40 Branch (4) 45 Precise (5)
46 A month (7) 47 Watched (4) 48 Unbroken (6) 49 Thrash, flog (5) 50 Charmingly simple and serene (7) 52 Wipe out (10) 53 Wartime conflicts (7) 54 Prompt (6) 55 Light motorcycle (7) 56 Confidence (5) 57 Family (4) 62 Fatuous (5)
67 Not convinced (7) 68 Solve it (anag)(7) 70 Huge sea wave (7) 72 Wise, tactful (7) 73 Large bottle (6) 74 Biblical language (6) 75 Blue dye (6) 76 Discontinue (5) 78 Snap (5)
80 From this time (5) 82 Probability (4) 83 Heavy volume (4)