Holiday challenge

GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Suitable for consumption (6)

8 Exaggerated (6)

11 Citizenship (11)

12 Disburse (5)

13 Nonverse (5)

15 Grow less in number (7)

17 Carefully (10)

19 Container (10)

21 Part of a jacket which is folded back (5)

22 Oratory; rhetoric (9)

23 Roomy (9)

29 Slip or granny (4)

31 Painting done on wet plaster (6)

32 Relating to sound or the sense of hearing (8)

33 Faithful (4)

37 Unused portion (8)

38 Liberty (7)

39 Birthright (8)

40 Biscuit (10)

41 Person unable to empathise (10)

44 Finish a degree (8)

46 Freaky (7)

47 Mockery (8)

50 Great Barrier – (4)

52 Ruffle (8)

53 Frightened (6)

54 Pool (4)

55 A nut tree of the cashew family (9)

58 Artificial or strange (9)

60 Drive back (5)

61 Constraint (10)

63 Completely unacceptable (10)

64 Provoke (7)

65 Hackneyed (5)

66 Dish of greens (5)

67 Roman Christianity (11)

68 Vegetable with a long

fibrous stalk (6)

69 English author, – Waugh (6)

DOWN

2 Take from (7)

3 Banded marsupial (9)

4 Scrutinise (5)

5 Droll (7)

6 Mobile phone (7)

7 Social (5)

9 Complete 180 (9)

10 Zingers (7)

14 Love (10)

16 Make lawful (8)

18 Type of grasshopper (6)

20 Pass (6)

24 Trickery, unscrupulous behaviour (11)

25 Reporters (11)

26 Thin biscuit (5)

27 Religious follower who exalts Ahura Mazda, deity of wisdom (11)

28 In a very difficult situation (11)

30 Cloud (9)

34 Country inn or club (9)

35 Large palm seed (7)

36 B12 and C are examples (7)

42 At first (10)

43 Blackboard support (5)

45 Persistence (8)

48 Type of sheep (6)

49 Prize for Olympic third (6)

51 Enchant (9)

54 Spread for toast (9)

55 Flat breakfast food (7)

56 Vocabulary (7)

57 Dark, skin pigments (7)

59 Cradlesong (7)

62 Rank (5)

63 Strong cotton fabric (5)