JUMBO CROSSWORD

Solution in Monday’s paper

ACROSS

1. Aural protection (7) 6. Entice (5) 9. Vapour (5) 12. Stadium (5) 13. Large vase (3) 14. Unstable oxygen (5) 15. Unexpected extra (5) 16. Tip over (5)

18. Cry of approval (5) 20. Temperate (5) 21. Souvenir (7) 23. Ancient form of exercise (4) 25. Excuse (5) 27. Long for (4) 29. Jewish scholar or teacher (5)

31. Job (4)

33. Fete (4)

34. Spurt (4) 36. Enduring (9) 39. Infusion (3) 40. Overly enthusiastic (4,2)

43. Vacillate (4,3,3,4) 46. Opposed to (4) 47. Always (4) 49. Voting booth (7,7) 54. Stick (6)

56. Sailor (3) 57. Mugger (9) 61. Memorandum (4) 64. Sumptuous (4) 66. Token (4) 67. Secret meeting (5) 68. Surrender (4) 70. Punctuation mark (5) 72. Creep (4) 74. Gruelling (7) 76. Peanut sauce (5) 78. Hang (5)

80. State indirectly (5) 81. Accustom (5)

82. Leg joint (5)

83. Play on words (3) 84. Farewell (Fr) (5) 85. Eat greedily (5) 86. Collect information gradually (5)

87. Slender ringlet (7)

DOWN

1. Massive (8) 2. Fellow lodger (4-4) 3. A stay in bed (3-2) 4. Skip playfully (6) 5. Cheese (4) 6. Forbidden (5) 7. Deranged person (6) 8. Physical struggle (6) 9. Rebuff (4) 10. Large water jug (4) 11. Alteration (12) 17. Relating to offender correction (5) 19. Competing (5) 22. Snatch (4) 24. Portable sunshade (6)

26. Frost (3)

28. Shamefaced (7)

29. Telephoned (4)

30. Club or short staff (5)

32. Gauche (7)

35. Buddy (3)

37. Tank (3)

38. Function (3)

41. Succeeding (4)

42. Hesitant (7)

43. Awe-inspiring (12) 44. Seep (4)

45. Mollify (7)

48. Premature (5)

50. Decrease (6)

51. Nothing (3)

52. Wrongdoing (3)

53. Many a time (archaic) (3)

55. Party-giver (4)

58. Ticklish (5)

59. Provide (3)

60. Former Russian ruler (4) 62. Bystander (8) 63. Paint with slight gloss (8) 65. Normal (5) 68. Bawling (6) 69. Water down (6) 71. Elephant worker (6) 73. Washed (5) 75. Empty (5) 76. Argue (4)

77. Kind (4)

79. Pin (4)