CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
12 Make your debut at the same time as, say (4,3,4) 13 Clever book title (6) 14 Brave, give the number a call (6) 16 See the difficulty (4) 17 I’d gone back into routine work, showing fortitude (9) 18 One, running around, is making a racket (5) 19 Cry from young bird — a gander (4) 20 Commercial lined up that dealt with the problem (9) 22 Precisely the taste (5) 23 What shall we do with the drunken sailor in beach hut? (3,6) 27 Boy I’m to return into your keeping (7) 30 Reform each awful no-good imprisoned (6) 31 Shots showing little children (4) 32 Retiring, carouse in bar (5) 35 Diet having worked, incline to (4) 36 Are fans, holding up game (7) 38 Type ‘Family: daughter’ (4) 39 Hunt frenziedly about. Are mad to discover (7) 42 Hard hearts are required to hold these jobs (6) 45 Had rebelled against being confined to bed? (5) 46 One’s facts are wrong about wartime Italian leader (7) 47 Neck and neck for almost all of the competition (4) 48 Matt is uninteresting (4) 50 Male, single, dressing up, socialises (7) 52 Moves objects very hard to move (5) 54 ‘Retain the services of’ sounded more lofty (6) 56 Coming in closer, terribly deformed, one shrinks from (7) 57 Have a natter coming back and a yarn (4) 59 Buy and eat (7) 61 Confident ourselves, backing again (4) 64 Either way, it’s impracticable (3,2) 66 A certain little problem is mentioned (4) 67 Settles for slight alteration (6) 69 Also to us, moving in, comes as a big surprise (7) 72 Event I later covered to give an airing to (9) 73 Protect from cold again (5) 74 Full of people listening to improvised jazz performance? (3-6) 79 Colours are the teeniest bit dark, I agree (4) 81 Find certain misprint in. Remove (5) 82 Repeat what you said was solution to clue ‘Revisit’ (4,5) 83 ‘Rob’ is a boy’s name (4) 85 Ruined by ungainly nude performing in (6) 86 Having the right, on entering, to a seat (6) 87 The wonderful locum is a huge comfort (5,6)
DOWN
1 Shut up, good gracious! Quiet! (4) 2 He assents to non-electronic communication (6) 3 She boarded a vehicle with the plants (6) 4 Having climbed up, pulls me inside (7) 5 Step one is to get into the lead (5) 6 Annoyed, stop to verify (10) 7 A male version of Mata Hari? (5) 8 Permitted to, when on the loose (2,7) 9 Hostile to the work of present day poet (7) 10 To support the pair, work (4) 11 Upset, leave a place in which you’ve made a home? (8) 15 Lecture married senor about misbehaving (6) 21 I have followed road back: private road to house (5) 24 As usual, a number agree to differ (7) 25 Sun, so hot, damaged new growths (6) 26 Makes up for not swimming in sea — very rough (6) 28 The proprietor has now tidied up again (5) 29 The man’s chains, can dispense with (3) 33 Economising with water when there’s call to (7) 34 Fragment of conversation about a kidnapping? (6) 37 Is inclined to, when time runs out (5) 40 Something talked about by the majority of men (5) 41 Mince dish is off, sir. Fish is on (7) 43 He is about to ring us from home (5) 44 Only s-suggest (6) 46 Favouring non-specific title of female in questionnares (5) 49 See if you can find the sentinel (7) 51 See staggering dead drunk (6) 53 Plans to have child star performing with (6) 55 Blow balloon with great enthusiasm (5) 58 What well-appointed jails have for today’s crooks: every one? (3,3,4) 60 Had been spotted capsizing (3) 62 Rave about new series of products (5) 63 Quickly ask a question about that’s tricky (9) 65 How eleven had been written, individually (3,2,3) 68 Shimmers and sparkles. Note males are thronging to (6) 70 What makes punter’s heart go pitapat? (7) 71 Not all there will be in monkey’s cage at zoo? (7) 75 For cooking utensil, go to the larder (6) 76 At prison, led riot against outdated lighting (6) 77 Listened to, sounded like a bunch of animals (5) 78 Defend yourself, man! (5) 80 It’s sun close to the horizon, stupid (4) 84 People waiting, say, for signals (4)