GIANT CROSSWORD

Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers.

QUICK ACROSS

12 Tree (6,5)

13 Visit (4,2)

14 Deduce (6)

16 Unhappy (4)

17 Album (9)

18 Scratch (5)

19 Wan (4)

20 Severe rebuke (4,5) 22 Intolerant person (5) 23 Call (9)

27 Weapon (7)

30 Puzzle (6)

31 If so (4)

32 Layers (5)

35 Norm (4)

36 Feeling (7)

38 Maintain (4)

39 Obviously (7)

42 Affront (6)

45 Delightful (5)

46 Playing (7)

47 Blood (4)

48 Domesticate (4)

50 Claim (7)

52 Deluge (5)

54 Tie (6)

56 Vehicle (7)

57 Regard (4)

59 Clothing (7)

61 Arrive (4)

64 Volunteer (5)

66 Convinced (4)

67 Animal (6)

69 Give to (7)

72 Insect (9)

73 Seat (5)

74 Little work (5,4)

79 Mark (4)

81 Country (5)

82 Understanding (9) 83 So (4)

85 Contrive (6)

86 Shade (6)

87 Constantly (5,6)

DOWN

1 Chilly (4)

2 Expansion (6)

3 Quickly (6)

4 Humble (7)

5 Range (5)

6 Consecutively (4,2,4) 7 Conclude (5)

8 Exposed (9)

9 Commanded (7)

10 Light (4)

11 Star (3-5)

15 Poignant (6)

21 Sharp (5)

24 Greeting (7)

25 Whole (6)

26 Brook (6)

28 Open up (5)

29 Understand (3)

33 Agree (7)

34 Root (6)

37 Observed (5)

40 Big (5)

41 Sieves (7)

43 Light (5)

44 Treat (6)

46 Allude (5)

49 Solemn (7)

51 Banished (6)

53 Source (6)

55 Changes course (5) 58 Solving (7,3)

60 Pitch (3)

62 Trivial (5)

63 Bird (9)

65 Skulduggery (4,4)

68 Gusts (6)

70 Game (7)

71 Swords (7)

75 Condense (6)

76 Ditch (6)

77 Quip (5)

78 Pull (5)

80 Catch (4)

84 Departed (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

12 What the thief hiding in

the wood avoided? (6,5)

13 Appeal to, when

you visit (4,2)

14 Deduce, as one has

gone off at a run (6)

16 A royal, perhaps,

and unhappy (4)

17 Album there’s a

fight over? (9)

18 Arrange from scratch (5)

19 A soft drink, lightcoloured (4)

20 A ticking off the foreigner

didn’t understand? (4,5)

22 It’s great to convert an

intolerant person (5)

23 Call for help, on staggering

in the stand (9)

27 Switch the camera to a

girl with a weapon (7)

30 Breaking in a new game

brought round – puzzle (6) 31 Given a hard time about,

in those days (4)

32 Sheets they knot

together (5)

35 Norm is a skinflint (4)

36 Feeling it, one got agitated,

getting a doctor in (7)

38 Maintain when you

look back (4)

39 Obviously in a

no-frills way (7)

42 To hurt feelings is bad,

you conclude (6)

45 A delightful dessert (5)

46 Playing: making a pom

jump through a hoop (7)

47 Shot again, there’s

blood (4)

48 No longer having to be caged, thanks to yours truly (4)

50 Do incline to quarrel (7)

52 Left in food and a

lot of water (5)

54 Tie to a treetop

out there (6)

56 A torch I lost in

the vehicle (7)

57 See we are back by six (4) 59 In the train, dressed

me in the clothes (7)

61 Going to the house myself

with the invitation (4)

64 Volunteer to take away

and back again (5)

66 Convinced it’s inevitable (4) 67 Speak as a vegetarian (6) 69 A tense “Hand it over” (7) 72 What an insectivore

with high cholesterol should avoid? (9)

73 Vandalise the jumble sale seat (5)

74 They do, when you set the clock – a little job (5,4)

79 Mark when you see it (4) 81 Branching out in the heart of the country (5)

82 Understanding about their disbanding the group (9) 83 So is about to turn and leave (4)

85 Contrive to write “male” and how old you are (6) 86 Be embarrassed, just a shade (6)

87 Alternate ones all the time (5,6)

DOWN

1 Very nice to be American, or rather distant (4)

2 As before, unhappy

about the expansion (6)

3 Scored quickly (6)

4 Many agreed possibly it

would be humble (7)

5 Though the range is

small, manage (5)

6 One after the other, facing in opposite directions (4,2,4) 7 Palsy-walsy, you

conclude (5)

8 Not attended by the

media, it was revealed (9) 9 Told to have nothing red,

red being wrong for (7)

10 Light when you

strike gently (4)

11 Star the written review

always starts with? (3-5) 15 Not still bringing tears

to the eyes (6)

21 Charming, starting

with an A sharp (5)

24 Getting a cab to

hospital – sick (7)

25 The whole ten I

worried about (6)

26 Cook a little rice

in water (6)

28 Can squeeze in the

French name (5)

29 Will grant an interview,

you understand (3)

33 Not for nest-building,

you agree (7)

34 Rout a number in battle (6) 37 Well known for having

been observant (5)

40 Having real trouble with

the G in “big” (5)

41 Sifts through the

questions (7)

43 A light item of news (5)

44 The better yours is, the

better you may become (6) 46 Speak of as reversible (5) 49 Grave bearing a

man’s name (7)

51 Once having lied, found

out, is banished (6)

53 The zero I ring is

wrong, for a start (6)

55 With craft, tries to avoid

the said levy (5)

58 Solving the problem of

how to combat flab? (7,3) 60 It’s sticky, thanks

to the rain (3)

62 Such ailments as only

a youngster gets? (5)

63 Bird with a ring through

its beak? (9)

65 Drama critics’ indictment

of “Skulduggery”? (4,4)

68 Blows up, with gusts

of winds (6)

70 Insect seen on

the pitch? (7)

71 Parries, clumsily,

the weapons (7)

75 Assimilates the condensed

information (6)

76 A depression during

the first World War (6) 77 Set out to get a girl (5) 78 Pull up, woman. He

needs to get ahead (5) 80 Catch “a bit upset” (4) 84 Note one had left (4)