Herald on Sunday

GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Enquired (5)

4 Event or product that is a great popular hit (7,7)

11 Resources (5)

14 Feel like (5)

15 Made narrower by squeezing (11)

16 Meddling or prying person (8)

19 Table knives, forks etc (7)

20 Fragrant shrub (5) 21 Escort (9)

24 German composer (9)

26 Multiplies (6)

27 Parody (6)

31 With cunning (5)

32 Coach (8)

34 Wedding party member (10)

38 Look at closely (7) 39 Taste, try out (6)

40 Sharp-tasting (6)

41 Floppy (4)

42 Adjudicato­r (7)

45 Trainee (10)

50 Lubricated (7)

54 Ventilated (4)

55 Advertisin­g verse (6) 56 Feel indignatio­n about (6)

57 Screwed (7)

60 Systematic (10)

61 Impractica­l dreamer (8)

62 Table of contents (5) 65 Lost me (anag) (6) 66 Harvest (6)

67 Congregate­d (9)

72 Reprobate (9)

73 Conical hat wearer (5)

74 Music machine (7) 79 Small turtle (8)

80 Evenly proportion­ed (11)

81 Rear part (5)

82 Put in for (5)

83 Show distaste or contempt for (4,2,4,4)

84 Swimming stroke (5)

DOWN

2 Social standing (6)

3 Perform outstandin­gly (5)

5 Woodwind instrument (4)

6 Breathe (7)

7 Northern country (6)

8 Dismiss (4)

9 Grasped firmly (8)

10 Carve (6)

11 Salad dressing (10) 12 State emphatical­ly (4)

13 Horizon (7)

17 Shipping box (5)

18 Marginal; only just acceptable in quality (10)

22 Pursue relentless­ly (5)

23 Diet essential (8)

25 Oval (7) 26 In the interval (7) 28 Brief look (6)

29 Item of clothing (6) 30 Added border (6) 33 Hobo (5)

35 Taken in (5)

36 Peak of perfection (4)

37 Indian garment (4) 42 Domain (5)

43 Predict (8)

44 Evoke (6)

45 Made worse (10) 46 Bard (4)

47 Prior (7)

48 Tufted cord end (6) 49 Waterway (5)

51 Lines (4)

52 Dearth (7)

53 Lace hole (6)

58 Secret plan to carry out a harmful or illegal act (10)

59 Possession (5)

63 Expression of gratitude (5,3)

64 With regard to (5) 65 Home guard (7)

68 Segment (7)

69 Actor’s lines (6)

70 Sheen (6)

71 Grief (6)

75 Penetrate (5)

76 Trim short (4)

77 Bullets (abbr) (4) 78 Go by (4)

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