JUMBO CROSSWORD

Solution in Monday’s paper

ACROSS

1. Deeply embarrassed (7)

5. Pulsate (5) 8. Vegetable (7) 12. Sand hill (4) 13. Approximately (L) (5) 15. Advice (7) 17. Sediment (5) 19. Cooking vessel (3) 20. Porky (3) 21. Atypical (5) 22. Notorious (8) 23. Apparent (7) 25. Alienated (9) 28. Tricky (6)

31. Horse (5) 35. Bellow (4) 36. Undisguised (5) 37. For ever (6) 39. Clear (5)

40. Group of eight (5) 43. Total absence of noise (7)

45. None (3) 46. Choose (3)

47. Item of jewellery (7) 49. Work dough (5) 52. Concerning (5) 53. Duty list (6) 54. Yellow-green colour (5) 55. Join in fabric (4) 57. Masculine (5) 60. Male relative (6) 64. Build (9) 66. Trainee (7) 68. Impossible to weaken or change (8)

69. Place (5)

72. Butt (3)

73. Also (3) 75. Without pattern (5) 76. Neatly arranged (7) 78. About-face (1-4) 79. Tiny amount (4) 80. Young child (7) 81. Play out (5) 82. Estate agent (7)

DOWN

1. Grow by addition (6) 2. Stringed instrument (4)

3. Defensive ditch (4) 4. Pour out (6) 5. Giant wave (7) 6. Poem (3)

7. Dead centre (5,3) 8. Plinth (8) 9. Submerged ridge (4) 10. Proboscis (4) 11. Spot in a pattern (5,3)

14. Indulge and overprotect (6) 16. Reprove (5) 18. Smile broadly (4) 22. Writing fluid (3) 24. Large tank for liquid (3)

26. Coral island (5)

27. Novice (9)

29. Saucer-shaped object (4)

30. Small harp (4)

31. Work out (5)

32. Outing (9)

33. Father (3)

34. Move in an arc (5) 38. Part of an egg (4)

41. Part of a golf course (3)

42. Commotion (2-2)

43. Assert (5)

44. Way in (5)

48. Incompetent (5)

50. Label (4)

51. Part of foot (4)

52. Limb (3)

54. Householder (8)

55. Traveller’s memento (8) 56. Counter-agent (8) 58. Downright (6) 59. Sheltered side (3) 61. Jutting from a surface (5) 62. Extract (7) 63. Sleeping spot (3) 65. Dirty (4) 66. Attorney (6) 67. Athlete (6) 70. Potato (4) 71. Towering (4) 73. Atmosphere (4) 74. Cover lightly with powder (4)

77. Fled (3)