GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers.
ACROSS 12
Doesn’t matter what, but it mustn’t be new (3,3,5) 13 Money obtained in
business by myself (6)
14 An unfashionable group
from the beginning (6)
16 Said he would pay
attention (4)
17 Show the salesman
you are miffed by (9)
18 Figure the date out
for the trainee (5)
19 Cover up and get the
blame, you say, for (4)
20 Low cupboard that’s
been put into action (9) 22 A safe name for a boy (5) 23 Horses in the boxes the
lunatic is entering (9)
27 Has hidden the gun
inside: is in a hurry (7)
30 Free the betrayer the
soldiers captured (6)
31 Waste wood (4)
32 Closely examine
the room (5)
35 Rock like mad,
capsizing (4)
36 Disgusts, so one
forces to leave (4,3)
38 And, torn right through,
you mend it (4)
39 A cracker of a colour! (7) 42 Seem to be an equal,
oratorically (6)
45 Possession the girl’s
taken back (5)
46 Somewhere safe to
go back to (7)
47 As a surname, was
attractive (4)
48 Give a round of
applause to (4)
50 Meant to have taken the
music away from? (7)
52 It’s a prayer, lady (5)
54 Tell you about the prior (6) 56 Yell “Bolt!” (7)
57 Set on getting a gift (4)
59 Is found, just as
one arrives (5,2)
61 Not firm? I’m pleased! (4) 64 It appears to frighten
the horses (5)
66 As always, revealed fifty
per cent to be upset by (4) 67 Someone who has
a tot, or child (6)
69 Fool he’s going
to clobber (7)
72 Interrupts with “Not
much hair’s left” (4,5)
73 Behaved badly in “18” (5) 74 A vegetable growing on
the golf course? (5,4) 79 Does it play a big role
in a dog’s life? (4)
81 Complain about one
when harassed (5)
82 A number alleged to
have applauded (9)
83 A man, as usual (4)
85 The very best of the exhibits at the horticultural show? (6) 86 Stopped the two boys
getting together (6)
87 Tree the birds won’t
venture near? (5,6)
DOWN 1
As soon as a single number is inserted (4)
2 Conjecture about, to
your amazement (6)
3 Loves it when the party
again gets in (6)
4 Cracked as only a fellow’s
hands would be? (7)
5 Appropriate, making
the woman cross (5)
6 “Relaxed” is not
underlined (10)
7 One dog of many
going through a
hoop, jumping (5)
8 Len had come back as
well to help (4,1,4)
9 Do try to dispute it (7)
10 What they ate
out West? (4)
11 Left late (8)
15 Many trees are felled
– a waste (6)
21 Take with difficulty from
the playing cat (5)
24 Could be colder,
one observed (7)
25 Sags and lets go of
the ball held (6)
26 The verve of “64” (6)
28 Anxious about one’s
grammar? (5)
29 Pop back for a drink (3)
33 Exerts oneself to music (7) 34 Things strewn around
by the little ones? (6)
37 Doomed to be the fellow
the date runs out on (5)
40 Lacking skill in the
point to point (5)
41 Spring again, out
comes the easel (7)
43 Lovely girl but with
cheap make-up (5)
44 At “left home”, blush (6)
46 As it should be, don’t
you think? (5)
49 After the outcry, leaves
with the animals (7)
51 The idea is, they should
be lined with gold (6)
53 Heartened by again, the
old went along with (6)
55 Ray is fair (5)
58 What the run-down fish
needs to buck it up? (5,5) 60 Round up, with a mate (3) 62 After work, are turning
up for entertainment (5) 63 Something not noticed when there’s too much to see (9)
65 Cut everything
up for her (8)
68 When you lecture
quietly, get to (6)
70 They point out some features on the weather map (7)
71 For a semi-detached,
showing potential (7)
75 Gives to the last
waddling sow (6)
76 Foozle the lung operation
and be caught (6)
77 Had to do with, a
lot of the time (5)
78 Am in an upsidedown boat for the whole series (5)
80 On paper, it is reduced (4) 84 Do for the man (4)