JUMBO CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Of short duration (5) 4 Your knowledge is gained by experience (3,4,3,5) 14 Collector’s item (5) 15 Perfume (5) 16 Enigmatic (10) 17 Motionless (5) 19 Metal container (3) 20 Will supplement (7) 21 Alien (9) 22 Expose the true character of (6) 25 Pen type (9) 27 Iciest (anag)(6) 28 Improved (6) 33 Restriction (10) 35 Garden tool (3) 36 Distribute sparingly (6) 37 Talon (4) 39 Mimic (3) 41 Sure (7) 42 Eat hungrily, quickly (6) 43 Spreading rumours (9) 44 Unit of capacity (5) 45 Light gas (8) 50 Next to (2) 51 Hamlets (8) 55 Ooze out (5) 58 Not influenced or affected (9) 59 Muslim sovereign (6) 60 Unknown (7) 61 Snow runner (3) 63 Let fall (4) 64 Come to rest (6) 65 Watch (3) 66 Two-wheeled vehicle (10) 68 Underside (6) 69 Fencer’s call (6) 71 Restore to a former rank or condition (9) 76 Cruel (6) 77 Earnestness (9) 79 Manufacture (7) 81 Vapour (3) 84 Nincompoop (5) 85 Condiment container (4,6) 86 Bus station (5) 87 Spectacle (5) 88 At the last possible moment (2,3,4,2,4) 89 Fashion (5)
DOWN
2 Calculate (6) 3 World-weariness (5) 5 Type of agate (4) 6 Disappointment (7) 7 Poem parts (6) 8 In the midst of (5) 9 Meal course (7) 10 Compass point (4) 11 Rules over (6) 12 Building block (5) 13 Run aground (7) 14 Butcher’s hatchet (7) 18 Deceptive (10) 23 Dense (5) 24 Small remaining trace (7) 26 Flier (7) 27 Obviously (7) 29 Making conversation (7) 30 On the cards (6) 31 Toss (5) 32 Miniaturised tree (6) 34 Requirement (4) 36 Takes a break (5) 38 Pay (5) 40 Window ledge (4) 45 Pursue relentlessly (5) 46 US motor city (7) 47 Musical work (4) 48 Repeated (6) 49 Beat (5) 50 Surround and blockade (7) 52 Written works (10) 53 A sly ant (anag)(7) 54 Swamp (6) 55 Book printing (7) 56 Hints (5) 57 Tranquil (4) 62 Rise (5) 67 Pilot’s compartment (7) 68 Greatest in size (7) 70 Red colour (7) 72 Uproot by force (7) 73 Military flag (6) 74 Painting in wet plaster (6) 75 Rolled document (6) 76 Consumption (5) 78 Abdominal pain (5) 80 Resided (5) 82 Hankering (4) 83 Microbe (4)