THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic clues or quick, the answers are exactly the same. The Solution will appear in MONDAY’S PAPER.
ACROSS
13 Person with whom the prosecution opens? (3,7)
14 More understandable that Clare is upset about being taken in (7)
15 Finds backing car in, determined (6)
16 Not as bad as being a gambler (6)
17 How, from inside, you watch the guard (7) 18 Because joining group is a good thing (5) 19 The girlfriend went back east a little after (4)
20 Characteristic feature of a collector’s item (5)
21 Dine ordering, with anonymous identity, at a table (5)
22 Considered an achievement getting me on board (6)
23 The central area is pronounced to be an uncultivated region (5)
28 Rubs the wrong way and she is prepared for tussles (7)
30 Do dally, agitating the wife (3,4) 33 A skeleton in the (kitchen) cupboard? (4,5)
36 It fastens only to a point (6)
38 As before, it’s no less (5)
39 Wear you can see right through (5)
40 Brilliant accomplishment by the French pair (6)
42 ‘Shut up!’ Then ear gets clip (5)
43 Preserves — the status quo in incomes? (7)
44 Reside in as a permanent home, or seat (6)
46 Musical, their yowling is not! (4)
49 Heavens! Has left flat! (4)
51 A fanatic, did contrive to get into the act (6)
53 Went berserk and bolted. Am all right (3,4) 55 Squirrel away in hole difficult to conceal (5)
59 Changes a number the rest slipped up on (6)
60 The man in the draper’s window? (5)
61 Due to pulling the top off (5)
62 What one plus two equals? (6)
63 Do nothing when you go on stage? (4,2,3) 65 Smoke, to annoy (7)
66 Weapon business, are moving into (7)
70 Stupid send-off given to one on leaving (5) 71 Opens with pretty animal in sun, frolicking (6)
73 Most run right inside from the wind and rain (5)
75 Usual item to find in financial portfolio (5) 80 Reveal that mum took the ball-point (4)
82 Within half an hour, she will show you in (5)
83 The usual procedure in enrolling in course (7)
84 He had caught mum looking dishevelled: was very busy (6)
85 Fear I omitted it by mistake (6)
86 Agree to nothing but dither almost certainly (2,5) 87 Lose your cool during the shake-up? (3,7)
DOWN
1 Feel sorry for having allowed to borrow again (6)
2 Cheats twice? (3-5)
3 Seem surprised 50 per cent misspelled ‘restaurant’ (5)
4 After a month, take the job or refuse (7)
5 Or when he comes round, home from sea (6)
6 On Sunday, pen the exclusive story (5)
7 Let rip at the editor (6)
8 Dressed up, going through a red light (7)
9 Deletes ‘Kisses not allowed’ (7,3)
10 The condition of the country (5)
11 Card-playing, gets into mess with money (4,4)
12 Supports charge before I dropped it (4)
24 Nigel is out in the street in a vest (7)
25 Be getting a number together for a party (5)
26 Does it flatter its wearers? (7)
27 Feels the old yearning and gets in touch with (7)
29 Said collar is scratchy (5)
31 Document with elaborate seal, point to (5) 32 Heck! What does ‘élan’ mean? (4)
34 Flat I again occupy, with partner (6)
35 No points for guessing what’s got youngsters starry-eyed (4)
37 Is he studying something he’s drawn to? (7)
41 Open, is not stuffy? (7)
45 Despite the fact that the idea is incomplete (6)
47 Pursuing father, son is seething with rage (7)
48 By, single-handedly, going through the rubbish (7)
50 In dreadful convict settlement (7)
52 With Seb on the outside, run in the middle (4)
54 Twit took motorway in, going astray (5)
56 Right again. It’s a dog’s name (5)
57 Vegetable that’s insufficient for ‘25’ (4)
58 It’s a transformed daughter, demure and decorous (5)
60 Not a new means of measuring time (6-4) 64 Very smart ending to a speech? (4,4)
67 Reckon I’m to come into all of the possessions (8)
68 Firm order to demolish. Destroy slowly (7) 69 Pulls in and stops (7)
72 Vegetable rabbit tucked right into (6) 74 Get beaten when about to win — a pain (6)
76 Caught with jemmy, displaying intelligence (6)
77 Groom the dog, Randy, and leave (5)
78 Vehicle taking back street has breakdown (5) 79 Talk about European swindler (5)
81 Lean over, giving command to dog (4)