Herald on Sunday

GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Feel contempt for (7)

4 Make a humorous comment (5,1,4)

9 Exercise running (7) 13 Steel pin (4)

14 Look up to (6)

15 Large globular bottle (6)

16 Figure (7)

19 Creamy dressing (10) 20 It sailed (anag)(8)

21 Play for time (5)

24 Tossed (6)

25 Concentrat­ed (6)

27 Small-scale (9)

32 Showing inappropri­ate levity (8) 33 Bad mood (6)

34 Taken away (7)

38 Laughed quietly (8) 39 Vocation (6)

40 Blaring (4)

41 Vernacular (5)

42 Goes first (5)

45 Booty (6,8)

52 Swaddles (5)

55 Stage whisper (5)

56 Small horse (4)

57 Imperative (6)

58 Indian capital (3,5)

61 Swindled out of (7) 62 Greatest possible degree (6)

63 Infantile (8)

66 Smashed (9)

68 Digit (6)

69 Pounded into small fragments (6)

73 Book for photograph­s (5) 74 Lift (8)

76 Symptom (10)

81 Health-maintainin­g cleanlines­s practices (7) 82 Abrade (6)

83 Titillate (6)

84 Jetty (4)

85 Warship (7)

86 Disproport­ionately large portion (5,5)

87 Permit for dog (7)

DOWN

1 Hard-wearing fabric (5) 2 Boat-building area (8) 3 Earned (anag)(6)

4 Metal money (5)

5 Mimicked (4)

6 Striking with foot (7)

7 Breed of dairy cow (6) 8 Small rounded hill (5) 10 Responsibi­lity (4)

11 Larger (7)

12 All but (6)

17 Winter crystals (10) 18 Meat jelly (5)

22 Cord for tying footwear (8)

23 Anaestheti­c liquid (5) 24 Conforming to a type (7)

26 Russian emperor (4) 28 Floating frozen sheet (3,4)

29 Hastens (6)

30 Developing unborn (6)

31 Make good a loss (6) 33 Truss (3,2)

35 Command (5)

36 Hawaiian dance (4) 37 Female relation (4) 43 Without difficulty (6) 44 Sidestep (5)

46 Horse gait (4)

47 Clothes for newborn (7)

48 Nerve cell (6)

49 Correct (5)

50 Conifer fruit (4,4)

51 Gives in (6)

52 Broadly distribute­d (10)

53 Wheel shaft (4)

54 Moved (7)

59 Air holes (5)

60 Military flute (4)

64 Answer (5)

65 Performer’s test (8) 67 Accommodat­ion (7) 68 Surgical pincers (7) 70 Musician (6)

71 Reach (6)

72 Motor fuel (6)

75 Nickname for Victoria (5)

77 Rope loop (5)

78 Health profession­al (5)

79 Tangle (4)

80 Molten rock from volcano (4)

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