GIANT CROSSWORD
Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers. CRYPTIC
ACROSS 12
Hit a snag when the plasters refuse to say on (4,7)
13 Turning, strike the
girl, in the book (6)
14 Regard as, if you don’t
participate (4,2)
16 Having to tow is a bore (4) 17 The rest are given a
memory jogger about (9) 18 Ran to the left,
silly dope (5)
19 Drove back to get
cheese (4)
20 Thrown out, set off in
this direction (5-4)
22 It’s a bar in New
York, twit (5)
23 Is set wrongly, even,
in a past era (9)
27 Unable to decide, when
I get the inside dry (7)
30 Cake for a tea in the
middle of August (6)
31 Not the bishop-bird … (4) 32 … but it’s a bird,
you silly thing! (5)
35 Fit – perfectly (4)
36 A turn off to the man,
as you’d expect (7)
38 Help measure (4) 39 Turn on the parson :
love to upset (7)
42 Many heads turned
as one ran after (6)
45 Dead worried about,
I helped (5)
46 Take a spin, perhaps, back to, needing assistance (2,1,4)
47 If a worried pupil should
do badly at exams (4)
48 Do they throw themselves
into their roles? (4)
50 Having know-how, I set out
to become a performer (7) 52 Oblige to give a warning
about the cold (5)
54 Split – shot off (6)
56 More prepared to
study? That is right (7)
57 Hold up so you don’t go (4) 59 Registers tapes (7)
61 Nonsense! Put back
“hard, hard drinker” (4)
64 “Log off” An order that
creates despondency (5) 66 Had been having a
little run-through (4)
67 Give a funny grunt about
the note: “High priority” (6) 69 Leading when the fin got
damaged: torn off (2,5) 72 Look at the person following you from the cosmetic department (3,6) 73 Escort ourselves and
the lady to (5)
74 Giving a party in the nude,
strangely brazen (9)
79 Care to keep an
eye on? (4)
81 The one putting the
hard question to? (5)
82 Gave a signal that revived
a memory? (4,1,4)
83 Show things are all right
for the moment (4)
85 Tried to sort out; have
disposed of half (6)
86 Give you a drink and
you set to work (6)
87 Being given a refrigerator when you have no food? (4,7)
DOWN
1 Travel time, three
quarters of an hour (4)
2 Importance given to
how fat you are (6)
3 Once more the doctor is
brought in for him (6)
4 Time is roughly a
quarter past when you
make the list (7)
5 Caustic and sour
right through (5)
6 Just as you could
wish for. OK (4,6)
7 Lugs off about fifty
for the birds (5)
8 Assumed to have lost
one’s footing due to (7,2)
9 To please dad, jogging
in the valley (7)
10 Questionnaire that reveals
a prison record (4)
11 Heavens, the
wholesomeness! (8)
15 Recommend that
you inform of (6)
21 “Love is different”, I interposed, “for a woman” (5)
24 Removed and left (4,3)
25 Got very angry and
cut right in (3,3)
26 A girl to tear at the
heart of a bachelor (6)
28 Left in the damaged
shoe with the tears (5)
29 Career you manage (3)
33 Backing round, one begins
to get in difficulties (7)
34 More determined
to get a dog (6) 37 The doddery old, for
instance, returned home (5) 40 In the grip of love,
you say (5)
41 Seems the silly sap
grabbed the fruit (7)
43 He got the girl up
with a pull (5)
44 The one doing the swathing is a shopkeeper (6)
46 Deduce it’s half
reinforced, wrongly (5)
49 “Used to ramble”, I put
in, “and that’s boring” (7) 51 Easy answer to “Who’ll
look after the kids?” (6)
53 Making haste, called the
number, I got through (6) 55 “The Saint” – favourite
– backing again (5)
58 That’s me! Not a faithful
correspondent! (5,5)
60 The number’s upsidedown, child (3)
62 Feel it’s what keeps
you sane (5)
63 Take it back again:
have to (9)
65 Attacks when one puts
it on wrongly (4,4)
68 Understands the long
end isn’t upright (6)
70 Tried to unfold a map
in the vehicle (7)
71 Plans to stop and isn’t
messing about (7)
75 A shout, an alarm and
a cry of pain (6)
76 Leave the TV
unplugged (3,3)
77 Falls and there are tears (5) 78 Sing for the lady (5)
80 The same gold portal (4) 84 A letter on either side
of D, in the middle (4)