Colossal Crossword

ACROSS

Woven fabric from the Outer Hebrides… (6, 5) … and a cotton sheet once used in dairies (11) Indicate with a finger (5)

Affluent (4)

Wireless (5)

Humanoid machine (5) Pimple (4)

Adhere (5)

Fit for consumption (6) Riverside grass (4)

Last word of the Bible (4)

25 Tangy burger sauce (6)

28 Fulfil (7)

29 Selected passage (7)

32 Summary (5)

33 Malicious spell (5)

34 Suede or chamois, eg (7) 37 Gymkhana award? (7)

39 Watch, witness (7)

41 Fireside (6)

42 Dark shade of blue (4)

44 Tie, dead heat (4)

46 Rebellion (6)

49 Progressive,

open-minded (7)

50 Be nosy (3)

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7

12

13 15 16 17 19 20 21 23

Feathery scarf (3) Psychotherapist (7)

— Lucy, US TV sitcom starring Lucille Ball (1, 4) 56 Musical featuring the song

I Know Him So Well (5)

57 Yelling, howling (7)

58 Wave to and

fro vigorously (3)

60 Covering for the head (3) 61 Front tooth (7)

62 Pasta strand (6)

64 Brown seaweed (4)

66 Practise boxing (4)

67 Shriek (6)

70 Apparent (7)

71 Flourish (7)

73 Official outfit (7)

75 Surplus to

requirements (5)

77 Throw out of school (5)

79 Nunnery (7)

81 Humiliating failure (7)

84 MP’S dishonest

behaviour? (6)

85 Treaty (4)

87 Generate an income (4) 89 Think deeply, muse (6)

91 Popular card game (5)

92 Corrosion (4)

93 Colloquial saying (5) 51 53 55 95 Final Greek letter (5)

97 Heavy metal (4)

98 Shiny paint (5)

99 Synthetic textile used to make outdoor garments (5, 6)

100 Zigzag cloth pattern (11)

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Jockey’s mount (5) Coronation —, soap opera (6)

Thick roll of banknotes (3)

Run away to

Gretna Green? (5)

Depict, represent (7)

Hand joint (7)

— pants, baggy trousers (5)

9 Retreating tide (3)

10 Complete, whole (6)

11 Emerge from an egg (5) 14 Reviewer of the arts (6)

18 Base coat (6)

21 Cooked Sunday lunch? (5) 22 Annihilate (7)

23 Modified (7)

24 Cosy recess (5)

26 Collision (5)

27 Rift, division (5)

30 Setting (5) 1 2

3

4

5 6 8

Banquet (5)

Written work (5)

Bread particle (5)

Natural material shorn from young sheep (5, 4) 40 Clothing fabric made

from artificial fibres (9)

43 Discharge from blame (7) 45 Television aerial (7)

47 Straighten (5)

48 Herb used as an

ingredient in pesto (5)

49 Toss high (3)

50 Bench in a chapel (3)

52 Parliamentary statute (3) 54 Craggy hill (3)

59 Individual

piece of rice (5)

60 Hang in the air (5)

62 Loop at the end of a lasso (5)

Flap at the front of a jacket (5)

65 Ideal (7)

66 Initial growth of a beard (7) 68 Mammal able to go without water for long periods (5)

Mildew (5)

Rounded utensil for serving mashed potato (5) Crook, criminal (5) 31 35 36 38

63 69 72

74 76 Capital of Greece (6)

78 Shallow pool of water (6) 80 Perturb (7)

81 Sack, fire (7)

82 Faith, creed (6)

83 Painful twisting of the ligaments around a joint (6)

84 Remove one’s clothes (5) 86 Cartoon magazine (5)

88 Overhead (5)

90 Long crest of land (5)

94 Decorate (a cake) (3)

96 Sensitivity to music (3) Solutions in Monday’s

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