JUMBO CROSSWORD

15/4

ACROSS

1 Pretend not to see (4,1,5,3) 8 Husband or wife (6) 14 Garden tool (5) 15 Ancient Hindu language (8) 16 Make ready (7) 17 Mournful song (5) 18 Small round mark (3) 19 Young tree (7) 21 Competitor’s advantage (4,5) 22 Room to manoeuvre (6) 25 Pasta in long slender threads (10) 27 Racetrack (8) 28 Chemist’s grinding tool (6) 31 Summer flower (6) 33 Lockjaw (7) 34 Make less harsh (6) 35 Door out (4) 37 Jump on one leg (3) 39 Horse farm (4) 40 Become better (7) 41 Blue-green gemstone (9) 42 Certificate (7) 43 Profit or returns (8) 48 Rural worker (8) 52 Comfort in grief (7) 56 Wet sport (5,4) 57 Cocktail (7) 58 Playthings (4) 59 Decay (3) 60 Paper quantity (4) 61 Red wine (6) 62 Supervise (7) 63 Lace hole (6) 65 Underside (6) 66 Schools (8) 68 Bully, browbeat (10) 71 Bluest (anag)(6) 72 Ancestry (9) 74 Painkilling drug (7) 76 Brim (3) 79 Chain of mountains (5) 80 Hair cleaner (7) 81 Australian parrot (8) 83 Grate (5) 84 Fish covering (6) 85 Advantage supplementing wages (6,7)

DOWN

2 Ignorant of (7) 3 Of the nose (5) 4 Drinks counter (3) 5 Jot, small amount (4) 6 A decrease in value over time (12) 7 Give up (5) 8 Directed (7) 9 Probability (4) 10 Flavoured water ice (6) 11 Bow-legged (5) 12 Small surviving trace (7) 13 Joint business (11) 14 Underwater plant (7) 20 Stone fruit (9) 23 Australian animal (8) 24 Fine lustrous silk-like fabric (7) 26 Tuneful (7) 27 Scorched (6) 29 Fabric (7) 30 Fireplace floor (6) 32 In search of (5) 34 Parody (5) 36 Flecked woollen cloth (5) 38 Leap (4) 43 Might (5) 44 Pariah (7) 45 Gain by work (4) 46 Scribble aimlessly (6) 47 Motionless (5) 48 Short dagger (8) 49 Outer skin layer (9) 50 Excitable, fiery person (7) 51 Poem (5) 52 Rust (7) 53 Remote (3-2-3-3) 54 Fire remains (6) 55 Garment worn indoors (8,4) 64 Shell (7) 65 Ship-stabilising material (7) 67 Car’s underframe (7) 69 Capital of Libya (7) 70 Medical establishment (6) 71 Left over (5) 73 Narrows (5) 75 Reflection (5) 77 Prisoner’s room (4) 78 Unit of area (4) 82 Signal (3)