GIANT CROSSWORD

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QUICK

ACROSS

13 Connected with (3,7) 14 Dig up (7)

15 Delay (4-2)

16 Throws (6)

17 Felt (7)

18 Pull from (5)

19 Boat (4)

20 Utter (5)

21 New (5)

22 Swam (6)

23 Collar (5)

28 Examined (7)

30 Under (7)

33 Continued (4,5)

36 Lots of (6)

38 Wrong (5)

39 Hard (5)

40 Suppose (6)

42 Intends (5)

43 Hurries (7)

44 Live in (6)

46 Cushions (4)

49 Go by (4)

51 Rows (6)

53 Game (7)

55 Belief (5)

59 Drive (6)

60 Male name (5)

61 Hermit (5)

62 Turns out (6)

63 Reptile (9)

65 Go back (7)

66 Dresses (7)

70 Intended (5)

71 Turns (6)

73 Reel (5)

75 In the money (5)

80 Wicked (4)

82 Prerogative (5)

83 Plant (3,4)

84 Insect (6)

85 Deal with (6)

86 Done without (7)

87 Modern (7,3)

DOWN

1 Stop (4,2)

2 Usual (8)

3 Peevish (5)

4 Bird (7)

5 Yells (6)

6 Should (5)

7 Money (6)

8 Crept (7)

9 Fed up (7,3)

10 Pictures (5)

11 Careless (8)

12 Revolve (4)

24 Enchanted (7)

25 Banquet (5)

26 Deduces (7)

27 Told (7)

29 Follow (5)

31 Are (5)

32 Try (4)

34 Sickness (6)

35 Very little (4)

37 Is understood (5,2) 41 Singer (7)

45 Idea (6)

47 Even now (7)

48 Jumped over (7) 50 Hostile (7)

52 True (4)

54 Plus (5)

56 At that point (5)

57 Island (4)

58 While (5)

60 Decrease (7,3)

64 End (8)

67 Bear (8)

68 Twist (7)

69 Shrank (7)

72 Attacks (4,2)

74 Quick (6)

76 Teeter (6)

77 Unties (5)

78 Loathed (5)

79 Figure (5)

81 Bottle (4)

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

13 Made to suffer for being connected with (3,7)

14 Dig up near the hut,

scrabbling outside (7)

15 Support the delay (4-2) 16 Launches with dances (6) 17 Felt mad (7)

18 Others, you say, would

extract from by force (5) 19 “Boot”, or is it “boat”? (4) 20 Say it’s a small tip (5)

21 A new father and

he’s clumsy (5)

22 Swam round the fish,

looking angry (6)

23 Collar fastener (5)

28 Looked closely at, it

was not natural (7)

30 Under the name, “Hate”

is scrawled (7)

33 Had continued – acting

as pathfinder? (4,5)

36 When in the mess,

ordering lots and lots (6) 38 Ma returning to a

ship? Wrong! (5)

39 Hard to flip over, it’s

required two fellows (5) 40 Suppose, you add, the

raging sea engulfed it (6) 42 Intends, when one

criticizes the left in it (5)

43 Has grabbed the gun

and gets a move on (7)

44 Prepared to let out, so you

make your home in (6)

46 Cushions that are soft, the

advertisements say (4)

49 Say it’s OK to go by (4)

51 Rows it took fifty years

to make up (6)

53 Mind keeping the kids

entertained for a while? (7) 55 Trust her! (5)

59 Take Una and Eve

out for a drive (6)

60 Noisy! Bad boy! (5)

61 One between two

sides is a recluse (5)

62 Turns out to be

overcooked, in addition (6) 63 Children lined up to

see the man-eater (9)

65 Go back again

with poetry (7)

66 He takes the idiots outside

and dresses them in (7)

70 Betokened, as it was

intended to (5)

71 Turns back to stop

the six entering (6)

73 Coils back the film (5)

75 Look embarrassed by

“in the money” (5)

80 Wicked, concoct a lie

to frame a number (4) 82 OK. That’s your

prerogative (5)

83 Hidden by a tree that’s

spread, a big plant (3,4) 84 Half hope the tern

zapped the insect (6)

85 Crash-land and he goes

round to deal with (6) 86 Had done without

because not there (7) 87 This time, give the

exact date to (7,3)

DOWN

1 Stop to remove some

weeds? (4,2)

2 The usual kind of lamp (8) 3 Get over being peevish (5) 4 Shoot the leading man

in “The Bird” (7)

5 Cheers when one closes

up the hole in (6)

6 The hospital with a bad

case of gout should (5)

7 Someone to look after

your money (6)

8 Toadied to, but got

nowhere fast (7)

9 Fed up your spaghetti’s not given the finishing touch? (7,3)

10 Reports with pictures (5) 11 A snack darn it, for

being careless! (8)

12 Bad scare when

taking a walk? (4)

24 Had cast spells on that

many were damaged by (7) 25 The fellow eats out

– a big meal (5)

26 Are confusing the children,

one deduces (7)

27 Told the ex the flame

was coming round (7)

29 Follow to the end –

right through (5)

31 Are given about a

second to leave (5)

32 Try to set off on time (4)

34 The youngster may

catch the sickness (6)

35 May, you say, be only

a very little (4)

37 Is understood when one

finds it’s quicksand? (5,2) 41 Singer the parson is

wandering round with (7) 45 He gets the Conservative

to embrace the idea (6)

47 Within a day, created real

trouble? So quickly? (7) 48 Bank a man leapt over (7)

50 As opposed to a

commercial jingle (7) 52 Are veering to the

left, it’s true (4)

54 Plus getting on the

coach outside (5)

56 At that point, the

Queen enters (5)

57 Said “Heavens! It’s

an island!” (4)

58 Write letters for a while (5)

60 A decrease in the fruit of a

tree that was shaken? (7,3)

64 Decide to end with (8)

67 Bear, or carry, with real

difficulty inside (8)

68 Twist and the cotton

knots right inside (7)

69 Shrank from the animal:

a wild deer (7)

72 Attacks while the tennis

games are in progress (4,2)

74 Quick! Tell me

what to say! (6)

76 “Teeter,” you notice,

was misspelled (6)

77 Charges right in when

one unties (5)

78 After a time inside, he’d

been unable to stand it (5)

79 Concealing, again, the figure (5) 81 The bottle broke in the valise (4)