JUMBO CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Period of rule (5) 4 Escape with no penalty at all (3,4,4-4) 14 Be worthy of (5) 15 Confess to (5) 16 Make easier (10) 17 Striped animal (5) 19 Seedcase (3) 20 Abridge (anag)(7) 21 Way (9) 22 Sleeping-sickness fly (6) 25 Janitor (9) 27 Accommodation house (6) 28 Danger (6) 33 Opposition (10) 35 Sewn edge (3) 36 Uncommon thing (6) 37 Impulsive (4) 39 Female deer (3) 41 Recovery setback (7) 42 Toothed fastener (6) 43 Give up (9) 44 Oneness (5) 45 Postscript (8) 50 2000 in Roman numerals (2) 51 Numbed (8) 55 Local tongue (5) 58 Profane or sacrilegious talk (9) 59 Quit (6) 60 Stockings, socks (7) 61 Tame animal (3) 63 Coral bank (4) 64 Help (6) 65 Ailing (3) 66 Unwanted third person in the company of lovers (10) 68 Laying low (6) 69 Launch-pad framework (6) 71 Exact copy (9) 76 Supernatural being (6) 77 Cooking surfaces (9) 79 Hapless (7) 81 Regret bitterly (3) 84 Beaver’s den (5) 85 A request to come (10) 86 Fully developed (5) 87 Progeny (5) 88 Quite lifeless (4,2,1,8) 89 Copper alloy (5)
DOWN
2 Withstand (6) 3 Working (5) 5 Student’s test (4) 6 Extremely stupid or foolish (7) 7 Crops up (6) 8 Tunnel (5) 9 Burdensome (7) 10 Effervescence (4) 11 Raise in a relief (6) 12 Feel about blindly (5) 13 Examined (7) 14 Of Mars (7) 18 Promoted for sale (10) 23 Pass out (5) 24 Contagious deforming disease (7) 26 Stir up (7) 27 Dull, monotonous (7) 29 Desert (7) 30 Decapitate (6) 31 Figure (5) 32 Deprive of food (6) 34 Sinister (4) 36 Antiquity (5) 38 Employed (5) 40 Fuse together (4) 45 Cautionary light (5) 46 Cul-de-sac (4,3) 47 Bites (4) 48 Restless (6) 49 Bungling (5) 50 Cause to feel humiliation (7) 52 Youth (10) 53 Distinguished, notable (7) 54 Mistakes (6) 55 Poetical (7) 56 Religious song (5) 57 Eagerly expectant (4) 62 Drops in temperature (5) 67 Give the right to (7) 68 Sharp racetrack bend (7) 70 Hot clime (7) 72 Not consumed (7) 73 Conundrum (6) 74 Design in skin (6) 75 Talents (6) 76 Feel (5) 78 Cobbled (5) 80 Below (5) 82 Contained (4) 83 Hindu philosopher (4)