GIANT CROSSWORD
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12 Accept (4,2,5)
13 Watch out! (6)
14 Caught (6)
16 Dejected (4)
17 Awful (9)
18 Stick (5)
19 Dull (4)
20 Maximum volume (4,5) 22 Begin (5)
23 Dog (2,7)
27 Pot (7)
30 Keeps (6)
31 Mediocre (4)
32 Complains (5)
35 Transaction (4)
36 Lingers (7)
38 Brace (4)
39 Male name (7)
42 Understands (6)
45 Outside (5)
46 Good wishes (7)
47 Test (4)
48 Bulk (4)
50 Tersely (7)
52 Patients (5)
54 Sees (6)
56 Informed on (7)
57 Strikes (4)
59 Endeavours (7)
61 Awful (4)
64 Deign (5)
66 Run off (4)
67 Almost (6)
69 Hounds (7)
72 Don’t worry (5,4)
73 Furnish (5)
74 Proviso (9)
79 Don’t eat (4)
81 Work out (5)
82 Instantly (2,1,6)
83 Amaze (4)
85 Want (6)
86 Bar (6)
87 Feel confident (4,7)
DOWN
1 Barrier (4)
2 Uncover (6)
3 Coating (6)
4 Speediest (7)
5 Jar (5)
6 Is proficient (8,2)
7 Tools (5)
8 Feeling (9)
9 Peeved (7)
10 Quarrel (4)
11 Went off (8)
15 Bill (6)
21 Employment (5)
24 Horrid (7)
25 Stoppage (6)
26 Well (6)
28 Maintains (5)
29 Unhappy (3)
33 Big race (7)
34 Pines for (6)
37 Quip (5)
40 Middle (5)
41 Severe (7)
43 Get to (5)
44 Bag (6)
46 Heaps (5)
49 Surmise (7)
51 Pictures (6)
53 Walk (6)
55 Donates (5)
58 An essential (4,3,3) 60 Ocean (3)
62 Game (5)
63 Silly (9)
65 Youngster (8)
68 Creature (6)
70 Broke (7)
71 Instruments (7)
75 Elegant (6)
76 Arrive (4,2)
77 Beauty (5)
78 Fast (5)
80 Jaunt (4)
84 Company (4)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
12 Accept that you must
allow to travel by (4,2,5) 13 Having put the trap back,
are giving a warning (6) 14 Caught in the end unexpectedly with a really good left (6)
16 Low and bawdy (4)
17 Awful big! (9)
18 Stick by the English (5) 19 Lacking sparkle, is dull (4) 20 Going strong and there
are no seats? Heck! (4,5) 22 To begin with, is
a little jerk (5)
23 Bert’s out? Darn. Out
with the dog (2,7)
27 Has his hot pot (7)
30 Keeps or puts back
outside (6)
31 The pair had two rounds
in that were not good (4) 32 Ties up and leaves
no loopholes (5)
35 Making a lot from
the transaction (4)
36 With everyone in the side
shifting, won’t hurry (7) 38 Mean to put one
in a brace (4)
39 I’m to train your boy (7) 42 Understands it’s the
key to “7” (6)
45 Attack from outside (5)
46 Thinks highly of and
compliments (7)
47 Late morning test (4)
48 A whole lot of, when
put in writing (4)
50 How you said “I like these
fried potatoes”? (7)
52 Patients identified
by labels? (5)
54 Sees and says mournfully
“About time” (6)
56 Informed pop was
working in the shed (7)
57 Strikes “this” out (4)
59 Notes one is trying
really hard (7)
61 For a beginner, entering
to compete is awful (4)
64 Deign, as a concession,
to go through (5)
66 Thunder “Run!” (4)
67 Almost a quarter
to, too soon (6)
69 Put in fish for the dogs (7) 72 Relax and don’t take
umbrage at anything (5,4) 73 Furnish with, giving
point to the joke (5)
74 A fitness proviso (9) 79 Small and overweight,
about to diet (4)
81 Work out by the sun
it’s half five (5)
82 Very quickly getting a label
to put a name on (2,1,6) 83 Amaze the person
you most rely on (4)
85 Want the boy to go
back to the father (6)
86 Soon having a large,
in the bar (6)
87 “Don’t worry” is the slogan
for the sleeping pill (4,7)
DOWN
1 Complain about the
deceiver, upset by (4)
2 Leave out the R first,
in “uncover” (6)
3 The man, in general, comes back to get the coat (6)
4 Toss out one in the
shortest possible time (7) 5 Powder jar (5)
6 Makes the grade as
a surveyor? (8,2)
7 Says stridently
“They’re tools” (5)
8 Feeling one’s wrong.
Isn’t a breakthrough (9) 9 Peeved, notice the green
in it needs rolling (7)
10 A fellow apt to be
upset by a quarrel (4)
11 Went off again like animals
entering the Ark (8)
15 Bill Mailer (6)
21 Getting employment
ourselves a time after (5) 24 I soon find out being
by myself is horrid (7)
25 Bump into, as you
walk out (6)
26 Free and well (6)
28 Maintains one is
grasping (5)
29 He’d gone. Dashed
back miserable (3)
33 A big race and a
definitive one (7)
34 Is moping for the girls (6) 37 Gag the woman (5)
40 In the warm-up: right
in the middle (5)
41 Freeing the rats I’d caught
is going rather far (7)
43 Get to “Having every
right, as head” (5)
44 The bag is a pain,
getting in the way (6)
46 Heaps of minor injuries (5) 49 Round up a new posse,
as you surmise (7)
51 Pictures of one of
the royals, say (6)
53 Walk past pa,
dropping the list (6)
55 Yields – to one’s inclination
to be generous? (5)
58 Compulsory Latin (4,3,3) 60 Hearing, understand,
in the main (3)
62 Does it require a great
many to play it? (5)
63 Silly if there’s no score (9) 65 Wrongly enter the age in,
of the young person (8)
68 The creative mother
brought in; a duck (6)
70 Vandalised when drunk (7) 71 Gosh, put the gun back
with the instruments (7)
75 Elegant as a suit
can never be? (6)
76 Arrive, to find (4,2)
77 Lovely girl who is, you
say, a ringer for (5)
78 About a number of
measures taken fast (5)
80 A threepenny jaunt (4)
84 Company for those
on board (4)