Giant Crossword
ACROSS
11 Large Scottish broadsword (8) Company’s emblem (4) Put in a window pane (6) Radio exposure of a record (7)
Fixes firmly (into) (6) Controlled a vehicle (5) Unsteady (relationship) (2‑3) Cake topping (5)
Gulf state with the capital Muscat (4) Very annoyed (5) Mistake (5) Breakfast in a shell! (6,3) Bring to light (6) Height (8)
Be at variance (6) Affirmative reply (3) Hurt, wounded (7) Incentives (7)
St Mary ___,
Miss Marple’s village (4) Of a building’s make‑up (10) Battery compartment (4) Hermit (5)
___ button, navel (5) Overly confident (4) Planet on which we live (5) Capable of flexing (5) Curved street (8) Fortified mound (7) Memory loss (7) Cycle of duties (4) Adam’s second son (4) Layer below cultivated land (7) Most sympathetic (7) Pedestrian witness (6‑2) Push roughly (5) Country bordering Nepal and China (5) Frizzy hairdo (4) 12 13 14
18 19 20
21 22
23 24 25 27 32 34 35 36 39 42
43 45 47 48 49 50 51 56 58 60 61 63 65
68 70 72 74 76 77 82 83
84 85 87 89 90
93 96
Literal‑minded (8) Medieval gentleman‑soldier (6)
98 By one single action (2,1,6)
99 Happening (5)
100Place where the legs join
the abdomen (5)
105Style of bowling in
cricket (4)
107 Possibly (5)
108Drive forward (5)
109Romantic flowers (5)
110 Loose‑fitting and untidy (6)
111 Mean (7)
112 Third sign of the zodiac (6)
113 Highest single number (4)
114 Genetic history (8)
DOWN
1 Ride behind a motorboat (5‑3) Accumulate (5) Succeed at university (8) Small inlets at the seaside (5) Single sound (8)
In an unworthy way (7) Fifty per cent (4) Beleaguers (8) Have goose pimples (6) Tibetan holy man (4) Jodie ___,
Killing Eve actress (5) Thrive (7) Enclosed in a twist (6) 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
15 16
Amalgamate (5) Pack tightly (5) Contested (4) Meaning given in a dictionary (10)
Part of a football boot (4) Learn new skills (7) Sozzled (3‑4) Damp (3)
Spiced Italian sausage (6) 17
26 28 29
30 31 33 37 38 40 41 42 44
45 46 52 ___ Hurley, model and actress (3) Trial performance (3,3) Ready for riding (horse) (7) Opera composed by Alban Berg (4)
Edible organs (5) Changes habitat seasonally (8) Capture with a rope (5) Abrupt rough movement (4) Antlered male animal (4) Details (5)
Awkward (5) Grinding back tooth (5) Author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (5) Happy cry of approval (5) Board a ship (6) Fewest (5) 53 54 55 57 59 62
64 66 67 69 70 71 73 75 78
79 80
More than sufficient (5) Was brave enough (5) Give rise to (5)
Tease (3)
Holding, occupation (6) In the USA, a restaurant bill (3) Much liked (5)
Real, genuine (4,4) Multi‑layered vegetable (5) Car tyre’s pattern (5) Bleeper (5) Anything remaining (5) Sharp (bend) (7)
Poke with a stick (4) Organisms studied by mycologists (5) Unsettling and exciting (4) ___ Quo, rock band (6) 81 86 88 89 91 92
Narrow piece of fabric (5) Orderly, neat (4) Niece of the King (7) Rabbited (8) Anti‑acidic (8)
Put money into shares etc (6) Disciplines (a wrongdoer) (8)
Any sleep‑inducing drug (8) Type of crossword (7) Area between the forehead and ear (6)
101 Signify (5)
102 Stain with colour (3)
103 Pointed part of a fork (5)
104Fire cinders (5)
106Agony (4)
108___ Glen, Scottish actor (4) 94 95 97