GIANT CROSSWORD

CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS IN MONDAY’S PAPER

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

13 Support parts found for repair (5,2,3) 14 Road not built for violent storm (7) 15 I read loosely about ordinary pop group’s helper (6) 16 Move cursor to get inventory (6) 17 Nests of birds found in castle beside European railway (7) 18 Trainee traced improperly leaving river (5) 19 Benign type (4) 20 Store hard piece of wood without cover (5) 21 Guard doffing cap in doorway (5) 22 Rat, maybe, is noted scurrying behind rear of car (6) 23 Frumpish women enter awfully odd yard (5) 28 Something for battering by English family in small dish (7) 30 Came across hydrogen close to ammonia and neon — or another gas (7) 33 Quiet lyricist and composer, it’s said, gets catalogue of costs (5,4) 36 Difference shown in side of page (6) 38 Grating noise from inlet heard (5) 39 Long for air finally in underground location (5) 40 Incomparable academic institution that Parisians recognise (6) 42 Cotton fabric exploited with backing (5) 43 Brother given fragile flute is worried (7) 44 Eagerly eat second of burgers in Dover ground (6) 46 Notice last piece of gloop ooze (4) 49 Colour exhibited in jacket in tailor’s (4) 51 A location for an event in tree-lined street (6) 53 Talkative sort turns bad in section of party (7) 55 Pace shown in Eliot’s last poem surprisingly (5) 59 Trace sudden flash (6) 60 Go on horseback carrying good crest (5) 61 Current business agreement is perfect (5) 62 Public permitted in shop (6) 63 Criminal hides note illicitly acquired? (2,3,4) 65 Blameworthy like a geologist doing fieldwork? (2,5) 66 Acrobat’s glass (7) 70 Consider method for hearing (5) 71 Don’s do is revised? That’s likely (4-2) 73 Superior feature of a trainer, say (5) 75 Thing for fastening is somewhat minimal at chapel (5) 80 Time on holiday for upper-class sort (4) 82 Companion in Austria gets porcelain (5) 83 Male irate possibly about marks in spread (7) 84 Prepare cosmetics (4,2) 85 Greek indulged love to be toadyish (6) 86 Bug, maybe, in meal cooked before time (7) 87 Two threats are reviewed in the most negative sense (2,3,5)

DOWN

1 University college beset by unusual cost for wall plaster (6) 2 Following the right route like a golfer? (2,6) 3 Suppress question by English liberal left (5) 4 Insult a female entering revolutionary group (7) 5 Affair about right protection for a knight? (6) 6 Excessive price lately found in exotic pets (5) 7 Request made by pair over troubled year (6) 8 Ace swims around fish in waterfall (7) 9 Folder gone sadly showing aquarium fish (6,4) 10 Banal finale to student ceremony (5) 11 Rely on turn for finance (8) 12 Wild cat straying in lot mostly (4) 24 Place in side destabilised in quarrel (7) 25 Colossal U.S. soldier with worker (5) 26 Completely block hockey largely played at college (5,2) 27 Risk assessor avoids two poles in sanctuary (7) 29 A club close to collapse gets to subside (5) 31 Choose foreign article on film about Cuba (5) 32 Pleasant part of titanic extravaganza (4) 34 Clubs enter races possibly in short supply (6) 35 Low male singer on radio (4) 37 Girl set out to get unpopular bit of meat? (7) 41 Examine brewing of pints around city (7) 45 Soothsayer in gold and form of lace (6) 47 Frenchman facing injured hawk is sentimental (7) 48 Aim girls developed with no end of studying is alike (7) 50 Extreme way to describe a verb? (7) 52 Cancel a French social occasion (4) 54 Live in Germany comfortably (5) 56 What warmongers dislike, we hear, a bit (5) 57 Jack in Brittany is getting joke (4) 58 Crew foreman starts to blush over star (5) 60 Maid working in pantry recalled as fluttery type? (3,7) 64 Gesture of greeting thrilled quintet (4-4) 67 Dark place to keep tools for a flight recorder (5,3) 68 Uruguay’s first friendly nation to support America in an accustomed way (7) 69 Teen with Ted devised relaxed atmosphere? (7) 72 Less sensitive song (6) 74 Basic advertising work with junk mail (6) 76 Boat trip is cure for disorder (6) 77 Graduated system in a fixed set of notes (5) 78 Anger in U.S. novelist cited (5) 79 Part of traffic signal in slope on road initially ignored (5) 81 Blades on a crest regularly observed (4)