Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Lithe (6)
13 Kick of a gun (6)
14 Agreeable (9)
16 At the earliest opportunity (inits)(4) Chucked away (5,3) Sweetly scented flower (7) Dram (3)
Old saying giving good advice (7)
Path of the Earth round the Sun (5) Mechanical moving figures (8) Engaging (staff) (9) Thing on a list (4) Hardly known (7) Having a stalk (7)
Full of topical information (5) Thrashes, thumps (7) Young sheep (4) Moan (6)
Acted with propriety (7) Cash tin (5‑3) Perceived (6)
Bus running on tracks (4) Reciprocity (9)
Kept from growing (7) Corresponding (3,4) Bow down to pray (5) Rootled (7)
Paean (6)
Correct (6) Envisaged (7) Ellipses (5) Supplied (with) (7) Despicable (7) Neurological pains (9) Intimation (4) Tolerates (6) Moved restlessly (8) Women’s religious home (7) 18 19 20 21 23
25 27 29 31 33
35 39 41 44 45 48 49 50 52 56 58 59 60 62 64 67 69 71 73 74 75 78 80
Charlton ___,
El Cid star (6) Much‑admired singer (4) Barrel of hidden presents (4,3) Covered with fine soft feathers (5)
89 Express keenness (7)
91 Increasing (7)
96 Absorbed (4)
98 Continued (7,2)
100 Spinning (8)
101 Feel longing (for) (5)
104Furrows (7)
106Rodent sewer dweller (3)
107 Irreverent (7)
109Catering largely for
foreign visitors (8)
110 Solo piece in an opera (4)
111 Increase an initial stake (2,3,4) Release channel (6) Skin injury (6) 83 85 112 113
DOWN
1 Ship’s mooring device (6) 2 Person suffering memory loss (8) Female Victorian novelist (5)
Area of a coastal town (8) Stirred from sleep (4) Blood fluid (6)
Top of the foot (6) Demolishes (8) Female singing voice (4) Cloth (8)
Chatter (6) Holiday accommodation (6) Weaken (6) Strengthening rod (5) Family insignia (4) Candied (cherries, eg) (5) Passionless, cold (6) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14
15 17 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 37
38 40 42 43 46 47 51
53 54 55 56 ___ Lively, US actress (5) Never‑ending (7) Farm animal (3) Mischievous elf (5) Assume or adopt (an attribute or quality) (4,2) Menagerie of animals (3) Brand‑name gravy (5) Away from the middle (8) Sound made by chains (5) Unimaginative, trite (5) ___ Merton, comedian (4) Slabs of dough with varied toppings (6)
Set the foot down (5) Smiled broadly (6) Partisan, follower (8) Equal value (3) 57 61 63 65
66 67
68 70 72 75 76 77 79 81 84
Month after March (5) Male deity (3) Feeling honoured (5) East of ___,
James Dean film (4) Passable (6) Carried over to another sheet (7) Crack (puzzles) (5) Courted (5)
Get on in life (2,3) Black rubbish sack (3,3) ___ Costner, JFK star (5) Place a wager (3) Supply gear to (5) Tea‑making vessel (3) Pad ___, noodle dish (4) 86
Belonging to a country as a whole (8) Carefully watched (8) Played in water (8) Exact (8) One‑room accommodation (6) Variety of chicory (6) ___ Desai, Indian writer (5) Thespians (6) Pinning down to a particular period (6) Person in control, familiarly (3,3)
102 Back of the eye (6)
103 Melodies, airs (5)
105 Excess (4)
108Avowal (4)
88 90 92 93
94 95 97 99