JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fire remains (5)

4 A month (8)

9 Handwriting (6)

14 Trap (5)

15 Die in a very unpleasant situation (4,2,1,6,3)

17 Swagger (5)

18 Dead heat (3)

19 Infatuated (7)

20 Stained (9)

21 Airless (6)

24 Astronaut’s craft (9)

25 Accident (6)

26 Assisted (6)

29 Illegal or dishonest behaviour (10)

31 Route (3)

32 Dung-beetle (6)

33 Trim very short (4)

35 Brief swim (3)

37 Slight advantage (4)

39 South American country (9)

40 Reduce expenditure (9)

41 Sailboat (5)

42 (8) 47 Foolhardy (8)

51 Privileged class (5)

55 Catches unawares (9)

56 Percussion instrument (9)

58 Scuttled at sea (4)

59 Self-image (3)

60 Cold crystals (4)

61 Plump (6)

62 Digit (3)

63 Occurring from time to time (10)

66 Scamp (6)

67 Calamitous (6)

69 Persuades to believe (9)

72 Fish covering (6)

73 Throbbing (9)

75 Contaminate (7)

77 Chop off (3)

80 Basket-making willow (5)

81 Usually (4,5,4,3)

82 Angler’s basket (5)

83 Flaw (6)

84 Put off until a later time (8)

85 Dog’s lead (5)

DOWN

2 Cobbler (9)

3 Occurrence (5)

5 Effortless (4)

6 Tombstone inscription (7)

7 Cake-making ingredient (6,6)

8 Stinks (5)

9 Sorrow (7)

10 Stood up (4)

11 Sea robber (6)

12 Flavoursome (5)

13 Ebbed (7)

14 Starch (7)

16 Repeatedly (4,3,4)

22 Quit (6)

23 (7)

24 Open and genuine (7)

25 Distress signal (6)

27 Of or like pigs (7)

28 Sweet-talk (6)

30

32 Small mark (5)

34 Push down on (5)

36 Courtroom enclosure (4)

38 Immediately payable (3)

16/4

42 Corrodes (5)

43 Sombre, humourless (7)

44 Well ventilated (4)

45 Habit (6)

46 Assorted (5)

48 Coarse loosely-woven cotton gauze (11)

49 Classes (7)

50 Male child (3)

51 Wide tidal river mouth (7)

52 Not native (6)

53 Noisy arguments (12)

54 As far as (2,2)

57

64 Large seabird (9)

65 Sunshade (7)

66 Copy (7)

68 Connoisseur of good food (7)

70 Incessant (3-4)

71 Formula (6)

72 Seller’s patter (5)

74 Remnant (5)

76 Spear (5)

78 Costing nothing (4)

79 Shortly (4)