JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Near death through old age or illness (3,4,2,3,5)

10 Enter unlawfully (8) 15 Reaping implement (6)

16 Not clearly defined (10)

17 News gatherer (8) 19 Necklace with ornament (7) 21 Pugilist (5) 22 Spring flowers (9) 25 Weather instrument (9)

27 Infectious disease (7) 29 Scared (6)

33 Light beer (5)

34 On time (8) 36 Embroidery (10) 39 Be unwell (3) 41 Extremely ugly (7) 42 University treasurer (6)

43 Beaded counting frame (6)

44 Moist (4) 45 Root vegetable (7) 48 Blot out (10) 53 Cut into three (7)

57 Dark blue colour (4) 58 Holds tightly (6) 59 Tea set (anag)(6) 60 Careless mistake (7) 62 Mineral spring (3) 64 Reinforce (10) 65 Wood-cutting device (8)

66 Compare (5) 69 Agitated (6) 70 Bauble (7) 71 Device for carrying sick or injured (9)

76 Cut up and studied

(9)

77 Accounts inspection (5)

78 Treated hide (7) 83 Maker of women’s hats (8)

84 Disappointing ending (10) 85 Highwayman (6) 86 Make concise (8) 87 Being alternatively friendly or enthusiastic and then the reverse (7,3,3,4)

DOWN 2 Silvery-white metal (6) 3 Doomed (5) 4 Lyric poem (3) 5 Eye part (4) 6 Undeveloped frog (7) 7 Christian festival (6) 8 Spoil (4) 9 Singer (8) 11 Stank (6) 12 Thief (10) 13 Singing voice (4) 14 Wandered off course (7)

18 Slow down (10) 20 Midday (4)

23 First appearance (5) 24 Damage or disrupt by secret means (8) 26 Eternal (7)

28 Make bigger (7) 30 Sheen on wood from age and handling (6) 31 Breakfast food (6) 32 Fine-tune (6) 35 Morsel (5) 37 Broken, useless (5) 38 Mountain in Japan (4)

40 Molten rock (4)

45 Breathes noisily, quickly (5) 46 About-face (8) 47 Civil (6) 48 Branch of medicine dealing with childbirth (10)

49 Fewer (4)

50 Pale cane syrup (7) 51 Religious ceremony (6)

52 Giant (5) 54 Actor’s part (4) 55 Dawn (7) 56 Ingenious (6) 61 Irresolute (10) 63 Trainee (5) 67 Located inward (8) 68 Unit of land area (4) 69 Of earthquakes (7) 72 Great victory (7) 73 Evaluate (6) 74 Plain-woven cotton fabric (6)

75 Story in parts (6) 79 Uniform jacket (5) 80 Family (4) 81 Opinion (4) 82 Way out (4) 85 Outlaw (3)