JUMBO CROSSWORD

830

ACROSS

1 Utter words (5)

4 Asleep (2,3,4,2,3)

11 Cove (5)

14 Combine (5) 15 Deterred (11)

16 Aircraft flight recorder (5,3) 19 Laugh quietly (7) 20 Obstruct (5)

21 Carry on (4,5) 24 Sleeping room (9) 26 Nincompoop (6) 27 Admirable quality or attribute (6)

31 Bend (5)

32 Vegetable (8)

34 Very tall building (10) 38 Currently happening (7) 39 Principality in Europe (6) 40 Space to manoeuvre (6) 41 Kiln (4)

42 Bringing about (7) 45 Strikes back (10) 50 Magnify (7)

54 Pen tips (4)

55 Tainted (6)

56 Finer point, nuance (6) 57 Reduce tension (7) 60 Intersection (10) 61 Long-lasting (8)

62 All set (5)

65 Ledger entry (6) 66 Protest (6)

67 Make worse (9) 72 Abnormal (9)

73 Of the moon (5)

74 Knave (7) 79 Mercifulness (8) 80 Emergency worker (11) 81 Throw up (5) 82 Swagger (5)

83 Share of the profit or benefit (5,2,3,4)

84 Chock (5)

DOWN

2 Blanket-like cloak (6) 3 Room within roof space (5) 5 Carpenter’s pin (4) 6 Pest in audience (7) 7 Inaugurate (6)

8 Tidy (4)

9 Egg dish (8) 10 Shapeless semi-solid lump(6)

11 Firebomb (10)

12 Ear part (4)

13 Fabric (7)

17 Feather (5) 18 Watering devices (10) 22 Fixed gaze (5) 23 Journey break (8) 25 Self-evident (7) 26 Capital of Kenya (7) 28 21-shilling coin (6) 29 Musical composition (6) 30 Break free (6) 33 Genetic copy (5) 35 Chain of mountains (5) 36 Shortly (4) 37 Apartment (4) 42 Sneerer (5) 43 Continuous, uninterrupted (8)

44 Frolic (6) 45 Circular road junction (10) 46 Finished first equal (4) 47 Most protracted (7) 48 Passage with arched roof (6) 49 Pass into (5)

51 River in Africa (4)

52 Very old (7) 53 Gluttonous (6) 58 Task (10)

59 Wild (5)

63 Less than zero (8) 64 Steer clear of (5) 65 Options (7) 68 Vividly descriptive (7) 69 Causes (anag)(6) 70 Inflict a penalty (6) 71 Shunting track (6) 75 Not confined (5) 76 Back part (4) 77 Cow meat (4) 78 Reach maximum (4)