GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sincere (7)

4 Showing no mercy (8) 8 Neighbourhood (8)

11 Avocado-based dip (9) 13 Reptile (6)

14 Close-lipped (8)

16 Elusive (7)

17 Perfumed (8)

19 Surprised (8)

20 Hopeless (9)

24 Living being (8)

25 Vessel for pouring hot

beverages (6)

27 Honeymooner (8)

29 Regret (7)

31 Pulpit (7)

33 Ad-libbing (13)

37 Fragrant shrub (8)

41 Faint (5)

42 Boredom (5)

43 Tasteless (5)

44 Secret meeting (5)

45 Staff member (8)

48 Unliveable (13)

51 Hellfire (7)

54 Fit and well (7)

56 Deep blue (8)

57 Roar (6)

58 Buyer (8)

59 Female sex

hormone (9)

63 Exemplar (8)

65 Urges (8)

68 Small amount (7)

69 Menace (8) 70 Collision (6)

71 Without a dissenter (9) 72 Checks (8)

73 Archaic term for

Christmas (8)

74 Female tiger (7)

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1 Intellectual type

(coll) (7)

2 Inspect (7)

3 Genre convention (5)

4 Introduction (7)

5 Style of a particular

artist (5)

6 Precise (5)

7 Alluring (9)

8 Semblance of truth (14) 9 Effecting an emotional

release (9)

10 Rigid (5)

12 Gather (5)

15 Small country house (7) 18 Invigorating seaside

air (5)

21 Biblical garden (4)

22 Recompense (6)

23 Neaten (4)

26 Animal which eats

every kind of food (8) 28 Stringed instrument

from ancient Greece (4) 30 Gin-based cocktail (7) 32 Soft tissue at the back

of the throat (6)

34 Craze (5) 35 Vigorous (7)

36 Slowpoke (5)

38 Rough (8)

39 Inherent qualities (6) 40 Extra soldiers (14) 46 Talking bird (6)

47 Footy field (4)

49 A unit of land (4)

50 Labyrinth (4) 52 Leaves (7)

53 Revised (9)

54 Aggression (9)

55 Injures (5)

59 Unclear (7)

60 Small migratory bird (7) 61 Small reptile with adhesive pads on its toes (5) 62 Agent of retribution (7) 64 Despise (5)

66 Tutee (5)

67 Legitimate (5)

68 Deliberate (5)