JUMBO CROSSWORD
25/3
ACROSS
1 Inundate (5) 4 Confirmed the truth of (8) 9 Wooden hammer (6) 14 Natural ability (5) 15 Spoil with too much indulgence or generosity (4,4,8) 17 Striped animal (5) 18 Rascal (3) 19 Covertness (7) 20 Bridge for boarding and leaving a vessel (9) 21 Gambol (6) 24 Daily travellers (9) 25 Fashions (6) 26 Reply (6) 29 Pastry-making fat (10) 31 Dudgeon (3) 32 Public uproar (6) 33 Pottery oven (4) 35 Each and every (3) 37 Largest continent (4) 39 Snarled, caught up in (9) 40 One running a pub (9) 41 Long for (5) 42 News report (8) 47 Flying (8) 51 Omits (5) 55 Motor launch (9) 56 Sleeve fasteners (9) 58 Mailed (4) 59 Spoil (3) 60 Fate (4) 61 Crates (anag)(6) 62 Fuss (3) 63 Pickled cabbage (10) 66 Financed (6) 67 Entices (6) 69 Plates, cutlery, glasses (9) 72 Plaster wall coating (6) 73 Laughed slyly, disrespectfully (9) 75 Voracious fish (7) 77 Facial twitch (3) 80 Surpass previous best (5) 81 Very quickly indeed (2,4,4,2,4) 82 Waned (5) 83 Arachnid (6) 84 Seasonal allergy (3,5) 85 Unrefined (5)
DOWN
2 Lime-based wall paint (9) 3 Grinding tooth (5) 5 Sound rebound (4) 6 Mimic (7) 7 Incapable of being digested (12) 8 Reside (5) 9 Stonework (7) 10 Indolent (4) 11 Hot coals (6) 12 Fear attack (5) 13 Sweet cover (7) 14 Dropping (7) 16 Bungling, inept (11) 22 Romeo’s lover (6) 23 Chorus (7) 24 Cut short (7) 25 Free from fluctuation (6) 27 Speak quietly (7) 28 Sultanate in NW Borneo (6) 30 Dinner bell (4) 32 Dog-biters (5) 34 Courage (5) 36 Roadway edging (4) 38 Former French coin (3) 42 Any two-footed animal (5) 43 Mean, underhand (3-4) 44 Cereal heads (4) 45 Pressed (6) 46 Movies (5) 48 Booking (11) 49 Watch (7) 50 Religious sister (3) 51 Heaped (7) 52 Abolishes, cancels (6) 53 Easily (12) 54 Added bonus (4) 57 Queasiness (6) 64 Feeling no guilt or embarrassment (9) 65 Fastened (7) 66 Plume (7) 68 Cycle bag (7) 70 Respire (7) 71 Frozen polar covering (6) 72 Diver’s gear (5) 74 Australian parrot (5) 76 Thespian (5) 78 Pleased (4) 79 Bogus (4)