GIANT CROSSWORD

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

QUICK ACROSS

12 Mentioning (7,4)

13 Repeat (6)

14 Stood up (6)

16 La douce? (4)

17 Disgusted (6,3)

18 Female name (5)

19 List (4)

20 Very many (9)

22 Bet (5)

23 Topical (2,3,4)

27 Get rid of (7)

30 Din (6)

31 Mess (4)

32 Room (5)

35 Retain (4)

36 Praise (7)

38 Mend (4)

39 Imitation (7)

42 Tools (6)

45 Cut finely (5)

46 Stop (7)

47 Food (4)

48 Don’t fail (4)

50 Foozled (7)

52 Scamp (5)

54 Determine (6)

56 Don’t (7)

57 Money (4)

59 Yelled (7)

61 Sway (4)

64 Open (5)

66 Wine (4)

67 Character (6)

69 Seems (7)

72 Cert (4,5)

73 Portly (5)

74 Cold (9)

79 Crooked (4)

81 Sample (5)

82 Working out (9)

83 Desire (4)

85 Hit (6)

86 Idea (6)

87 Didn’t attract (4,3,4)

DOWN

1 Animals (4)

2 Try hard (6)

3 Drop in (6)

4 Skill (7)

5 Pugilist (5)

6 Natural (10)

7 Flattens (5)

8 Sleaze (9)

9 Inspire (7)

10 Just (4)

11 Given (8)

15 Indian (6)

21 Tree (5)

24 Catching (7)

25 Excuse (6)

26 Accusation (6)

28 Managed (5)

29 Say crossly (3)

33 Plant (7)

34 Stoneless (6)

37 Tendency (5)

40 Plump (5)

41 Beats (7)

43 Set (5)

44 Yield (6)

46 Capital (5)

49 Odd (7)

51 Shed (4-2)

53 Felt (6)

55 Cut (5)

58 Little devil (4,6)

60 Plunge (3)

62 Worries (5)

63 Aware (9)

65 Game (8)

68 Bird (6)

70 Talk (7)

71 Opposes (7)

75 Furious (6)

76 Boat (6)

77 Warms (5)

78 Building (5)

80 Follow (4)

84 Cheek (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

12 Mentioning one’s not maintaining at its former high level (7,4)

13 Forced once again

to repeat (6)

14 Stood up, are

angry about (6)

16 She’s lost half her

hair, mum! (4)

17 Disgusted, refused to

listen to any more (6,3)

18 She has some lovely

diamonds (5)

19 List not going back

from S to Z (4)

20 Very many; with the exception of Dracula, perhaps (9)

22 Jester to the Queen,

you bet (5)

23 Isn’t, when travelling east, through making headlines (2,3,4)

27 About the mark –

did get rid of (7)

30 Your game or what

you play it with? (6)

31 Is forced to have

hot food (4)

32 Look very carefully

at the room (5) 35 Observe, or see, turning (4)

36 Paul, translating, says “In

French, it’s praise” (7)

38 And, torn right

through, mend (4)

39 Imitating the girl, go

“Boo-hoo” (7)

42 Some of the tools of

a card sharp? (6)

45 Cut finely and put

into mine, cold (5)

46 Stop! Shut up about

the figure entered! (7)

47 Scratch around for

the chow (4)

48 Don’t fail to give to (4)

50 Wounded when the gun went off in, had foozled it (7)

52 Feel sorry for and go

back in to get scamp (5)

54 Determine, when the editor

is about to cut back (6)

56 Don’t strain (7)

57 Caught fleeing, has

the money (4)

59 She had caught out

and yelled at (7)

61 Surprise with a diamond (4)

64 Open to find the name (5)

66 Left to get a drink (4)

67 I, for instance, may

go by air (6)

69 Plays the ghost

on stage? (7)

72 Will have sung about their

wanderings, it’s a cert (4,5)

73 Not the port in “portly” (5)

74 Lacking a suit, is cold (9)

79 Crooked man given time (4)

81 Try, when I leave it, to

get the seat, running (5)

82 Working out, as one

forms a circle round (9)

83 After half an hour, start

getting the desire (4)

85 Give the impression

you’ll lash out at (6)

86 Thought, on putting

back into play (6)

87 Didn’t attract: gave

the shivers to (4,3,4)

DOWN

1 They’re animals, hunny! (4)

2 With star potential and

smart, try hard (6)

3 Isn’t proposed, before

1.50, to drop in (6)

4 Confront the problem

with skill (7)

5 Dog that’s used to

having scraps? (5)

6 Not influenced by,

plain and simple (10)

7 The car flattens it (5)

8 Sleaze that makes us

feel slightly sick (9)

9 Heartbroken, be about to

get fresh inspiration (7)

10 Just as pretty (4)

11 Having given to the

champ, do we go off? (8)

15 Indian doctor: a

non-pacifist (6)

21 A girl, single, in a love

entanglement (5)

24 Catching in the mesh (7)

25 I’m sorry for getting

mean with the fellow (6)

26 Bill will make the

accusation (6)

28 Managed to get the fish,

a little perch, into it (5)

29 Say crossly “Modern

music!” (3)

33 I’m changing into jeans

to work in the garden (7)

34 Though stoned, matched

one’s wits against (6)

37 A tendency to turn right

at the bottom (5)

40 Plump for sandwiches (5)

41 Fed up, has a meal

after the drubbings (7)

43 Set up a record: a

really good one (5)

44 Give in and propose (6)

46 Mean one’s in a

foreign city (5)

49 Having set off called

through, which is odd (7)

51 Left a note: “Repair

shed” (4-2)

53 Felt grand, having

demolished Pedro (6)

55 Cut cold, Vera is upset (5)

58 Little devil creating panic

among the angels? (4,6)

60 Duck having a swim (3)

62 Worries in case possibly

there’s rain (5)

63 Realising, as a business,

“The Stag Inn” is rocky (9)

65 Game to cook the

eel and trout (8)

68 The bird, having broken

out, is able to (6)

70 Talk about that amazing

topless dancer (7)

71 Doesn’t give way to the awful stress one’s put through (7)

75 Furious when you

tease about drink (6)

76 Found the vessel (6)

77 Microwaves the last of the

goulash and tucks in to (5) 78 Nestled in a hill, we

find the building (5)

80 Lit up, holding a brush (4)

84 The cheek, putting up a

convict who’s at large (4)