GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Courgette (8)

5 Shop where medication is sold (7)

8 Confuse, bewilder (7)

10 Japanese form of heavyweight wrestling (4)

11 Low, upholstered seats that double as boxes (8)

12 Repast (4)

13 Provoke (10)

15 Nervous state over an uncertain outcome (8)

17 Blend (7)

18 Equine movement (4)

19 German philosopher Friedrich – (9)

21 Items of footwear (5)

23 Wandering (6)

25 Disciple of Christ (7)

27 Mathematical proposition (7)

30 Ribald (4)

33 Schoolmaster (7)

35 Artificial reservoir (7)

37 Match up (a device, e.g.) (4)

38 Argued (10)

40 Instrumental composition (6)

43 Uniform (7)

44 Building material (6)

45 Way-finding (10)

47 Responsibility (4)

49 Stiff hair (7)

51 Traveller (7)

53 This was Achilles’ weak point (4)

55 Doodad (7)

58 Book in the Hebrew bible (7)

59 Really (6)

62 Bury (5)

63 Assembly (9)

66 Fruit (4)

67 A fun but often dangerous trip in a vehicle (7)

68 Harsh, caustic (8)

70 Sufficiently rewarding to justify one’s efforts (10)

71 Lowest female voice (4)

72 Oatmeal dish (8)

73 Level (4)

74 Fourth (7)

75 Secret (7)

76 Aristocrats (8)

DOWN

2 Last (8)

3 Covered walk in a convent or monastery (8)

4 Publish (5)

5 Repay (10)

6 Large-headed hammer (6)

7 Small, fiery particles (6)

8 Small, broken-off piece (8)

9 Tediously repetitious (10)

14 Hit (6)

16 Publicise (4)

20 Defraud (5)

22 Shape with no corners (6)

24 Untreated (3)

26 Drought-resistant plant (9)

28 Understanding gained after the event (9)

29 Coffee-chocolate fusion (5)

31 Radiate (5)

32 Mournful song (5)

33 Curable (9)

34 Unsophisticated guy (9)

36 Forbidding (5)

39 Float around aimlessly (5)

41 Belt hole (5)

42 Motif (5)

44 Pull (5)

46 Sudden (6)

48 Lyricist (10)

50 Bed covering (5)

52 Compulsory (10)

54 Female sheep (3)

56 Ornate

architecture (6)

57 In company (8) 59 Annoys (4)

60 Cause to be accomplished more quickly (8)

61 Conversation between

two people (8)

64 Unorthodoxy (6)

65 Edit (6)

69 Tree (5)