The Gold Coast Bulletin

JUMBO CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Perhaps (5) 4 Capable of making mistakes (8) 9 Informal get-together (6) 14 Small arm of the sea (5) 15 Very uninterest­ing, dreary, boring (4,2,10) 17 Hungarian composer (5) 18 Tune (3) 19 Cautious (7) 20 Saying “no” to (9) 21 Dreaded (6) 24 Municipal regulation (9) 25 Offensivel­y curious (6) 26 U-shaped nail (6) 29 Giant’s diet (anag)(10) 31 Tankard (3) 32 Hard hat (6) 33 Charges (4) 35 Mined mineral (3) 37 Trendy (4) 39 Made cheerful, spirited (9) 40 Site (9) 41 Assists in wrongdoing (5) 42 Do deeply (anag)(8) 47 Fluctuated back and forth (8) 51 Short, flat-headed nail (5) 55 Scent shop (9) 56 Rock slide (9) 58 Block up (4) 59 Drunkard (3) 60 Food shop (4) 61 Standing posture (6) 62 Small child (3) 63 Body of persons entitled to vote (10) 66 Dinner jacket in the US (6) 67 Slowly (mus)(6) 69 Formal party after a wedding (9) 72 Ebbs (6) 73 Tourist (9) 75 Mosque tower (7) 77 Male offspring (3) 80 Foreign or unfamiliar language (5) 81 Quick-witted; very perceptive (2,5,2,1,6) 82 Student’s compositio­n (5) 83 On land (6) 84 Imaginary place abounding in gold (8) 85 Workers (5) DOWN 2 Excessive admiration (9) 3 Swelling (5) 5 Opera solo (4) 6 Stand for holding a book (7) 7 Confusion (12) 8 Consumed (5) 9 Rebounds readily (7) 10 Young male horse (4) 11 Gangways between seats (6) 12 Implore (5) 13 Make jump (7) 14 Repeat (7) 16 Devious tactics (11) 22 Put in drop by drop (6) 23 Eternal (7) 24 Of the eye (7) 25 Eastern temple (6) 27 Advance showing (7) 28 Shelled insect (6) 30 Plummet (4) 32 Girl’s name (5) 34 Church council (5) 36 Prohibits (4) 38 Garden tool (3) 42 Fooled (5) 43 Baffle (7) 44 Responsibi­lity (4) 45 Builds (6) 46 Baggy (5) 48 Power line worker (11) 49 Pain-killing drug (7) 50 Big bird (3) 51 Deadly poison (7) 52 Skin decoration (6) 53 Pacific site of giant stone statues (6,6) 54 Partner (4) 57 Goes stealthily (6) 64 Burrowed (9) 65 In a perfect world (7) 66 Kitchen appliance (7) 68 Make faces (7) 70 Spreading plant (7) 71 Court game (6) 72 Nonspecifi­c sense of anxiety (5) 74 Overly eager speed (5) 76 Amphitheat­re (5) 78 Extinct bird (4) 79 Hand-me-down (4)

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