GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Orator (7)

4 Unwieldy (10)

9 Corrosive, burning (7) 13 Brood (4)

14 Ousts (6)

15 Circus funny people (6)

16 Tiredness (7)

19 Go poetical (anag) (10)

Improved in status (8)

21 Representative (5) 24 Hypothesis (6)

25 Meal course (6)

27 Moved forward (9) 32 Rapturous (8)

33 Threadbare, dilapidated (6)

34 In demand (7)

38 Free-falling parachutist (8)

American prairie wolf (6)

40 Doing nothing (4)

41 Surgical sponges (5) 42 Large water body (5) 45 Totally indifferent (3,6,1,4)

52 Totted up (5)

55 Run away to marry (5)

56 Go bankrupt (4)

57 Podgy (6)

58 Clear, well-defined (8)

61 Showy bird (7)

62 Decapitate (6) 63 Rash, foolhardy (8) 66 Influencing (9)

68 Held responsible (6) 69 Ascending (6)

73 Dealer in stolen goods (5)

74 Playing the odds (8) 76 Ghost (10)

81 Cloud type (7)

82 Attractively oldfashioned (6)

83 One in front (6)

84 Storage building (4) 85 Fashionable (7)

86 Put trust in, rely on (6,4)

87 Shorten (7)

DOWN

1 Brazilian dance (5)

2 Hired for work (8)

3 Critical appraisal (6) 4 Spiny plants (5)

5 Bog plant (4)

6 Deny access to (7)

7 Very light cake (6)

8 Craze (5)

10 On holiday (4)

11 Roofing tile (7)

12 Tropical lizard (6) 17 Amendment (10) 18 Get to (5)

22 Green vegetable (8) 23 Yellow fruit (5)

24 Pungent sauce (7) 26 Short letter (4)

28 Litter (7)

29 Scattered (6)

30 One of poor character (3,3) 31 Showy trinket (6) 33 Japanese screen (5) 35 Single (5)

36 Wheel cover (4)

37 Singing voice (4)

43 Telephoned (6)

44 Meat jelly (5)

46 Colourful gemstone (4)

47 Spanish warship (7) 48 Diverse (6)

49 Famous (5)

50 Deviating from the usual (8)

51 Warbles (6)

52 Germ-free (10)

53 Finished (4)

54 Obedient (7)

59 Twist (5)

60 Unit of area (4)

64 Drinking tube (5)

65 Over (8)

67 True (7)

68 Prejudiced (7)

70 Take off (6)

71 Split up (6)

72 Photographer’s device (6)

75 Violent person (5) 77 Marine crustacean (5)

78 Prod (5)

79 Baby lions (4)

80 Applaud (4)