JUMBO CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Threaded fastener (5) 4 Holding at one’s mercy in a helpless position (4,4,1,6) 14 Steam bath (5) 15 Game fish (5) 16 Film or play taken from a written work (10) 17 Perfume (5) 19 Very cold (3) 20 Underwater missile (7) 21 Lifelike (9) 22 Lemon acid (6) 25 Without boundaries in extent, size or quantity (9) 27 Embraced (6) 28 Oddball (6) 33 Instructions on how to get there (10) 35 Lubricate (3) 36 Unattractively thin (6) 37 Egg (4) 39 Allow (3) 41 Following as a result (7) 42 Day’s end (6) 43 Daily chores (9) 44 Group of eight (5) 45 So long (8) 50 Out of bed (2) 51 Swisher (8) 55 Make a pretence of (5) 58 Of one’s forebears (9) 59 Touched down (6) 60 Thriftiness (7) 61 Twosome (3) 63 Narrow aperture (4) 64 Bumps (6) 65 Signal (3) 66 Tracks (10) 68 Inventor’s protection (6) 69 Entices (6) 71 Calculated roughly (9) 76 Minor weakness or eccentricity (6) 77 Charred (9) 79 Mark with fingernail (7) 81 Zero (3) 84 Stratum (5) 85 Link (10) 86 String-player’s wax (5) 87 Banish (5) 88 Sudden attack of hoarseness (4,2,3,6) 89 Trivial (5)
DOWN 2 Police line (6) 3 Kit out (5) 5 Tacks on (4) 6 Nonstop train (7) 7 Feasible (6) 8 Rider’s straps (5) 9 Decorative flags, streamers (7) 10 Expose to danger (4) 11 Eye protector (6) 12 Uniform jacket (5) 13 West Indian dance (7) 14 Deprived of food (7) 18 Right of entry (10) 23 Inundation (5) 24 Please greatly (7) 26 Frozen block (3,4) 27 Summit (7) 29 Filled pasta envelopes (7) 30 Austrian capital (6) 31 Steed (5) 32 Yearly book (6) 34 Ghetto (4) 36 Condition (5) 38 Manufacturer (5) 40 Optical glass (4) 45 Unravels at the edge (5) 46 Sale document (7) 47 Clean with water (4) 48 Voice box (6) 49 Sorts (5) 50 Opens with a key (7) 52 Favourable reception; approval (10) 53 Dawn (7) 54 Hostility (6) 55 Glow fitfully (7) 56 Below (5) 57 Cow meat (4) 62 Dense (5) 67 Give a right to (7) 68 Colonist (7) 70 Pouch-billed bird (7) 72 Pullover (7) 73 Team member (6) 74 Beat (6) 75 Actor’s lines (6) 76 Panache (5) 78 Spiral seashell (5) 80 Solo (5) 82 Ship’s prison (4) 83 Prolonged unconsciousness (4)