Herald on Sunday

GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Started (5)

4 Feigning illness to avoid work (8,3,4)

14 Abstain from (5)

15 Sprite (5)

16 Seize for military purposes (10)

17 Scrub clean (5)

19 Be seated (3)

20 In fine fettle (7)

21 Simulated (9)

22 Customer (6)

25 Blood cell (9)

27 Go to bed (6)

28 Creamy dessert (6)

33 Bigoted, narrowmind­ed (10)

35 Dried grass fodder (3)

36 Hard defensive covering (6)

37 Coral ridge (4)

39 Welder’s spark (3)

41 Rumourmong­ers (7)

42 Gregarious (6)

43 Changed in form or function (9)

44 Topic (5)

45 Hygienic (4-4)

50 Not later than (2)

51 Royal daughter (8)

55 Volley of shots (5)

58 Inadverten­t mistake (9)

59 Exclamatio­n (6)

60 Discontinu­ed (7)

61 Moose (3)

63 Clip (4) 64 Dairy product (6)

65 Boy (3)

66 Going stale (10)

68 Titter (6)

69 Pamper (6)

71 Unable to be heard (9)

76 Din (6)

77 Attractive­ly lively and animated (9)

79 Trespass (7)

81 Ocean (3)

84 Oust (5)

85 Rules of thumb (10)

86 Furious (5)

87 Egg-shaped (5)

88 Die (4,2,4,5)

89 Living fence (5)

DOWN

2 Tooth covering (6)

3 Month (5)

5 Knitting yarn (4)

6 Number (7)

7 Set alight (6)

8 Inexperien­ced (5)

9 Reap (7)

10 Fewer (4)

11 Son of Zeus (6)

12 Have faith in (5)

13 Simple house (7)

14 Liberty (7)

18 Retailer (10)

23 Customary (5)

24 Make a face (7)

26 Tree-climbing marsupial (7)

27 Author’s payment (7)

29 Respect (anag) (7)

30 Revenue (6) 31 Singing group (5)

32 Long narrow carpet (6)

34 Horse gait (4)

36 Did something (5)

38 Loses colour (5)

40 Stingy (4)

45 Tiling mortar (5)

46 Staggering about (7)

47 Quick (4)

48 Breakfast-time holder (3,3)

49 Senior group member (5)

50 Pamphlet (7)

52 Aims (10)

53 Upper-case letter (7)

54 Brownish pigment (6)

55 Train stop (7)

56 Swot (5)

57 Weapons (4)

62 Not clearly discernibl­e (5)

67 Voted in (7)

68 City in Scotland (7)

70 Very small amount (7)

72 Feed (7)

73 Part of the eye (6)

74 Arm muscles (6)

75 Border (6)

76 Beard cutter (5)

78 Foreign (5)

80 Elevate (5)

82 Hankering (4)

83 Jump (4)

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