JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Backless seat (5) 4 Further deterioration (4,3,2,5) 11 Chopped straw fodder (5) 14 Pick-me-up (5) 15 Burning flamelessly (11) 16 Fibrous insulator (8) 19 View (7) 20 Adhered (5) 21 Poverty-stricken (9) 24 Spoke quietly (9) 26 Sermonise (6) 27 Powdery stuff on flowers (6) 31 Stockpile (5) 32 Intense unfounded suspicion (8) 34 Open to attack (10) 38 Summit (7) 39 Window-shop (6) 40 Ageism (anag)(6) 41 Apartment (4) 42 Jewellery item (7) 45 Percussion instrument (10) 50 Air hole (7) 54 Excessively selfsatisfied (4) 55 Trill (6) 56 Articles (6) 57 Parties (anag)(7) 60 Seamstress (10) 61 Setting alight (8) 62 Special ability (5) 65 Uncouple (6) 66 Draw back in fear, pain (6) 67 Productive with minimum waste (9) 72 Use a keyboard without looking (5-4) 73 Pilot’s badge (5) 74 Conveyance (7) 79 French police officer (8) 80 English playwright (11) 81 Flavouring plants (5) 82 Distance down (5) 83 Unsettled, undetermined, not finalised (2,1,5,2,4) 84 Whisky plant (5)

DOWN

2 Armed forces (6) 3 Vegetable (5) 5 Sloping path (4) 6 Canadian police officer (7) 7 Kidnap (6) 8 Grow weary (4) 9 Was curious (8) 10 Without difficulty (6) 11 Chequered playing square (10) 12 Play divisions (4) 13 Vogue (7) 17 Damp (5) 18 Wide of the mark (10) 22 Foot lever (5) 23 Spherical (8) 25 Jumped over (7) 26 Tableland (7) 28 Beginner (6) 29 Woven trap (6) 30 Invisible (6) 33 Large blood vessel (5) 35 Praise (5) 36 Depressed (4) 37 Short skirt (4) 42 Sat for a painter (5) 43 At unease (anag)(8) 44 Drink sachet (6) 45 Mealtime cover (10) 46 Submissive (4) 47 African bird (7) 48 Rules over (6) 49 Darkness (5) 51 Pulled by rower (4) 52 Congeal (7) 53 Call names (6) 58 Dangerous maniac (10) 59 Smithy’s block (5) 63 Photo (8) 64 Blended (5) 65 Harmed (7) 68 Concealing device on nude statue (3,4) 69 Norway lobsters (6) 70 Debacle (6) 71 Worldwide (6) 75 Chemically unreactive (5) 76 Speak sharply, irritably (4) 77 Brief satirical sketch (4) 78 German Mrs (4)