JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Small amount (7)

5. Mended (5)

8. Sailing ship’s spars, ropes, etc (7)

12. Excavate (4)

13. Tend (5)

15. Solemn (7)

17. Slow, lazy speech (5)

19. Modern (3)

20. Rancid (3)

21. Get up late (3,2)

22. Pretend to be ill (8)

23. Mismanage (5,2)

25. Moulder (9)

28. Sofa (6)

31. Short (5)

35. Lattice (4)

36. Postpone (5)

37. Creature (6)

39. Not suitable (5)

40. Veneer (5)

43. Trudge (7)

45. Prompt (3)

46. In arrears (3)

47. Kiln (7)

49. Nick (5)

52. Ingrained dirt (5)

53. Substantiate (6) 54. Hold on (5)

55. Agreeable (4)

57. Humid (colloq) (5)

60. Solution (6)

64. Become suspicious (colloq) (5,1,3)

66. Superior skill (7)

68. Unfaithfulness (8)

69. Lubricated (5)

72. Snake (3)

73. Aged (3)

75. Grown up (5)

76. Pressured haste (7)

78. Location (5)

79. Nothing but (4)

80. Estate agent (7)

81. Principle (5)

82. Search destructively (7)

DOWN

1. Insect (6)

2. Mend (4)

3. Masticate (4)

4. Accident (6)

5. Pardon (7)

6. Large bird (3)

7. Unrest (8)

8. Embarrassed (3-5)

9. Target (4)

10. Doing nothing (4)

11. Splendour (8)

14. Tranquil (6)

16. Should (5)

18. Small tuft or lock (4)

22. Face (inf) (3)

24. Mongrel (3)

26. Communication industry (5)

27. Progeny (9)

29. Road fee (4)

30. Ova (4)

31. Feign (5)

32. Barren (9)

33. Podgy (3)

34. Flinch (5)

38. Becomes older (4)

41. Single unit (3)

42. Solitary (4) 43. Lukewarm (5)

44. Foe (5)

48. Heavenly creature (5)

50. At that time (4)

51. Swear (4)

52. Fitness centre (3)

54. Shopper (8)

55. Storyteller (8)

56. Slingshot (8)

58. Off-colour (6)

59. Chatter (inf) (3)

61. Oscillated (5)

62. Died out (7)

63. Sardonic (3)

65. Misled (4)

66. Entreaty (6)

67. A spell of luck (6)

70. Molten rock (4)

71. Fine, dry powder (4)

73. Candid and honest (4)

74. Information (4)

77. Cereal grass (3)