GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Spear (5)

4 Deserved respite (4-6,4)

11 Foot problem (5)

14 Investigation (5)

15 March in protest (11) 16 Renegade (8)

19 Clothing (7)

20 Conditions (5)

21 Not sure (9)

24 Pen name (9)

26 Streetside channel (6) 27 Ship’s, aircraft’s kitchen (6)

31 Surgical sponges (5) 32 Pariahs (8)

34 Sealed against leakage (10)

38 Egg white (7)

39 Eat up greedily (6)

40 Source (6)

41 Touch lips (4)

42 Awaiting decision or settlement (7)

45 Safekeeping (10)

50 Tiredness (7)

54 Yours and mine (4)

55 Hire (6)

56 Easy-going, warm in manner (6)

57 Radiates (4,3)

60 Intended to deceive (10)

61 French law-keeper (8) 62 Foreign (5)

65 Sounded horn (6)

66 Task (6)

67 Arrest (9)

72 Deadlock (9)

73 Book of maps (5) 74 Female feline (7) 79 Salad sauce (8) 80 Fellowship (11) 81 Line up (5) 82 Bare (5) 83 Depressed (4,2,3,5) 84 Power cables (5)

DOWN

2 Sudden (6)

3 Snake (5)

5 Potato dents (4)

6 Imprecisely (7)

7 Take for granted (6)

8 Standard (4)

9 Cause to explode (8) 10 Gibes (6)

11 Secret-sharing female friend (10)

12 Space (4)

13 Fulfil the expectations of (7)

17 First appearance (5) 18 Meat abstainer (10) 22 Not genuine (5)

23 Growing weary (8)

25 Put down by force or intimidation (7)

26 Of the stomach (7) 28 One dozen (6)

29 Accompany (6)

30 Conviction (6)

33 Applaud with shouts (5)

35 Slight experience of (5)

36 Stitched (4)

37 Asian desert (4)

42 Evidence (5)

43 Storyteller (8) 44 Play games of chance (6)

45 Reversible word (10) 46 Type of marble (4)

47 Betrothed (7)

48 Paying occupier (6) 49 Japanese port (5)

51 Absent (4)

52 Pancreas product (7) 53 Brand new (6)

58 Promoted for sale (10)

59 Sting (5)

63 Seasoned smoked beef (8)

64 Singing group (5)

65 Squash underfoot (5,2)

68 Level highland (7)

69 Copied genetically (6) 70 Free from worry or anxiety (2,4)

71 Sent out (6)

75 Cheek-colouring makeup (5)

76 Writing table (4)

77 Abstain from food (4) 78 Slack (4)