THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic clues or quick, the answers are exactly the same. The Solution will appear in MONDAY’S PAPER.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
12 Observe fan fidgeting round start of game, worried person (3,2,6) 13 Violet colour behind Igor in part (6) 14 Snare colleague almost making comeback (6) 16 Drag in students’ residence, we hear (4) 17 Inauguration is concise as planned (9) 18 Period mentioned for herb (5) 19 Way metre goes with poem (4) 20 I term wind swirling in normally chilly period (9) 22 Understand guy’s first criticism about son (5) 23 Neat local is disturbed suddenly (3,2,4) 27 Present as genuine licence on holiday (4,3) 30 Doctor came in place for screenings? (6) 31 Cut short weed (4) 32 Entice worker casually employed over time (5) 35 That man will have horrible experience (4) 36 Deposit for cooking a cut of beef (7) 38 English film on a big scale (4) 39 Clarinet played with no end of passion in concert (7) 42 Suppress a racket sport (6) 45 Preserve poem at college (3,2) 46 Possibly I note a large thing needing cutting? (7) 47 Advantage in promise after leaving place (4) 48 Fix proposal to cover North (4) 50 Man serving in pub is showing reason (7) 52 Warning in part relayed on way back (5) 54 First person given time to take in river is thin (6) 56 Disruptive noises beset second sitting (7) 57 Criticise social function (4) 59 Supply edited video behind advertising work (7) 61 Small measure popular with church (4) 64 Two points for instance in student’s work? (5) 66 A card one might play in social group (4) 67 Staff get on and cope (6) 69 Good man with Oscar I term largely uncomplaining (7) 72 Titled figure abroad at a disadvantage in immediate run-up (9) 73 Pester a British royal (5) 74 Unsurpassed — and lacking competition? (9) 79 Recall ineffectual types in a lather (4) 81 Different trouble with bishop gone (5) 82 Arid canon that’s turned out to be very severe (9) 83 Wicked element in Berkshire village (4) 85 Correct professional in short businessman backed (6) 86 Give up work and go to bed (6) 87 I wanted peer sacked amid difficulty (2,4,5)
DOWN
1 A person inside upset festivity (4) 2 Pursue old liberal in current movement (6) 3 Where postman might be circling island fruitlessly (2,4) 4 Thin biscuit, fantastic sort (7) 5 Compact section of garden seen (5) 6 Playing well, men soon age when injured (2,4,4) 7 Husband in good order raised merriment (5) 8 Source of human regulation puts organisation on strike (4,5) 9 Artist interrupts event arranged for old soldier (7) 10 Check upright part of plant (4) 11 Set of cards I limit as a disadvantage (8) 15 Put a hole in portion? About right (6) 21 Rogue operator losing power gets cross (5) 24 Former individual on U.S. magazine (3-4) 25 Traduce six leaders of labourers in first year (6) 26 Esteem fantastic dame touring Ireland (6) 28 Part of rehearsal saved for Latin American dance (5) 29 Fighter with appeal in a sound condition (3) 33 Misjudge a ploy to hide defensive error? Make expression of regret (7) 34 Engineer blamed for pandemonium (6) 37 Drive out exporter with the Spanish (5) 40 Rage embodied by mean German (5) 41 Skipper in headwear getting cheers at home (7) 43 Depart with energy to a fair degree (5) 44 Continue influence over number in revolution (4,2) 46 Vagrant is heading for this slope (5) 49 Inspector shifted and is getting scorn (7) 51 Bad-tempered taxi driver keeps close to car (6) 53 First number brought up disgusted expression? That’s sufficient (6) 55 Liberal shortly took part in outstanding plea (5) 58 Henry and Roy with demand for treatment that’s secure (4,3,3) 60 Consume pork, say, without starter (3) 62 Foolish councillor when close to developers (5) 63 Humble companion in fine craft showing pictorial diagram (4,5) 65 New story for broadcast? It aids winter motoring (4,4) 68 Standard characters in Lisbon or Malaga (6) 70 Postpone a round curiously in which Jack features (7) 71 Underground worker acquiring a rupee — and one at sea? (7) 75 A pecan nibbled as party food? (6) 76 General with custom for latitude (6) 77 Some aristocrat embellishes decrepit car (5) 78 Collective in disreputable bar (5) 80 Clean exercise introduced by Women’s Institute (4) 84 Pair in part of news bulletin (4)