GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Famous Hitchcock film (1960) (6)
8 Contemporary (6)
11 Major city in Minnesota (11)
12 Fat (5)
13 Bright but brief light (5)
15 Wriggles (7)
17 Handwritten book (10)
19 German dish of fermented cabbage (10)
21 Breezy (5)
22 Enmity (9)
23 Spiteful (9)
29 Article (4)
31 Traditional Japanese robe (6)
32 Fit (8)
33 Motivate (4)
37 Sink in (8)
38 Yarn craft (7)
39 Trainers, soft shoes (8)
40 Number; 1 followed by 10^100 zeroes (10)
41 Annihilate (10)
44 Display; demonstrate (8)
46 Competition (7)
47 Antagonist (8)
50 Take a chance (4)
52 Abode (8)
53 A large fish-eating bird of prey (6)
54 Hint (4)
55 Body of creation stories (9)
58 Describes a tree that sheds its leaves every year (9)
60 Reservation (5)
61 Device used for measuring wind speed and direction (10)
63 Warm association between people (10)
64 Advent (7)
65 Short, pleasurable trip (5)
66 Garbage (5)
67 3-down’s working class (11)
68 Public official’s assistant (6)
69 Scandinavian pirate (6)
DOWN
2 A dried seedless grape (7)
3 Political theory developed by Karl Marx (9)
4 Anxiety and dread (5)
5 Giant Californian tree (7)
6 Improve (7)
7 Sanctify (5)
9 In a state of violent excitement (9)
10 Saves (7)
14 Thinly sliced, uncooked dry-cured ham (10)
16 A system of faith and worship (8)
18 Guard (6)
20 Flowering shrub (6)
24 Dissatisfaction (11)
25 3-down’s middle class (11)
26 Capture (5)
27 One-wheeled carrier for dirt, gravel etc. (11)
28 Affected by exposure to extreme cold (11)
30 Flagrant (9)
34 Bit by bit (9)
35 Exult (7)
36 Seemingly contradictory statement that may in fact be true (7)
42 Obscenities (10)
43 Aspect (5)
45 The area of the body between the neck and the top of the arm (8)
48 A light, silly laugh (6)
49 Seem (6)
51 Capital of Nepal (9)
54 Zebra crossing (9)
55 Film editing technique used to quickly show the progression of time (7)
56 One-fourth (7)
57 Of or found in a river (7)
59 Infatuated (7)
62 Trimmer (5)
63 Panache (5)