Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Clowning (9) 86 ___ Collette,
actress (4)
14 Waited in line (6,2)
88 Bon ___,
15 Crooked, askew (4) enjoy your meal! (7)
16 Become liable to (5) 90 Large dam‑building
19 Walked with a spring (7) rodent (6)
20 Power of speech (7) 92 Nook, recess (6)
21 Crown jewels item (3) 93 Headland (4)
22 Group (7) 94 Awkward (5)
23 Complain (5) 95 Occasion for saying
25 Truck fuel (6) goodbye to an old
27 Country to the west colleague (7,2)
of Egypt (5) 98 Matching crockery (6,3) 29 Making progress (9) 100Artfully shy (5)
34 Daydreamer (9) 102 Find the position of (6) 36 Wild shopping trip (5) 104One of the seven
deadly sins (5)
37 Cause irritation (4)
108Sports tops (7)
38 All the star signs (6)
110 Common queries and
41 (Under) constraint (6) their answers (inits)(3) 43 Runs out (7) 111 Solves (7)
45 Abound (4) 113 Meat cartilage (7)
46 Drag a leg when walking (4) 115 Fracture (5)
47 Be hot under the collar (4) 116 Pierce with a horn (4)
49 Round stringed instrument 117 Money paid to a bank for
with a long neck (5) having an overdraft (8) 51 Celtic language (5) 118 Arouse (3,6)
53 Well cared‑for (hands) (9)
55 Biblical character
swallowed by a whale (5)
60 Sites, spots (6)
62 Rope with a noose, thrown
to catch cattle (5)
63 Disdain (5)
65 Painted curtain to the rear of a stage (9)
In a humorous and entertaining fashion (9)
69 Country formerly known as
the Gold Coast (5)
70 Used a stopwatch on (5)
72 Noticeable (6)
73 Invited (5)
75 Element found in dolomite (9)
Best possible notion (5)
___ Young, lead guitarist in AC/DC (5)
83 Crutch (4)
85 Loop, entwine (4) 67 77 78
DOWN
1 Explosive device (4)
2 Glasses, informally (5)
3 Indian nationalist and spiritual leader (6)
4 Low‑toned brass instrument (4)
5 Affect, stage (3,2)
6 Gently swirl (4)
7 Eerie (6)
8 Roadside area (3‑2)
9 Go before (7)
10 Work with wool (4)
11 Overtake in a race (6)
13 Hardly perceptible quantity (7)
17 Fondle, pamper (6)
18 Big toy ring (4,4)
24 Mass entry (6)
26 Narrow intense beam of light (5) 28 Resistance to
change in motion (7)
30 Steep rock face, especially on the coast (5) Girl (4)
Worthless rubbish (5) Card which can be high or low in blackjack (3)
35 Sugar‑coated (4)
37 Anger (3)
39 Brown and orange
butterfly (5)
40 Kept quiet (8)
42 Age (3)
44 Urban green spaces (5)
48 Corm (4)
50 ___ J, pop star (6)
52 Yes‑men (7)
54 Lit (7)
56 Distinctive smell (5) 31 32 33 57 lioness (4) 85 Bounded about (8)
58 Malaysia’s continent (4) 87 Be indebted (3)
59 Business sense (6) 89 Flower part (5)
61 Vulgar (5) 90 Part of a wicket (4)
62 Hut in a Canadian forest, 91 Electronically transmitted perhaps (3,5) hard copy (3)
64 Country bordering Yemen (4) 95 Grasshopper‑like insect (6) 66 Hark (4) 96 Monica ___, TV chef (7)
68 Pull hard (4) 97 Suspense (7)
71 Intended (5) 99 Damage (6)
74 Country bordering 101 Find not guilty (6)
Lebanon and Turkey (5) 103 Earmarked (6)
76 Have recourse to (7) 105 Opposite of ‘before’ (5)
79 ___ Stubbs, 106 Orange‑yellow pigment (5) actress (3)
107 Cheroot, eg (5)
80 Light beer (5)
109 Enjoy a book (4)
81 Volcano on Sicily (4)
111 Tax on goods imported (4)
82 Remove from a country (6)
112 Sunset (4)
84 Edible nut of the hickory tree (5) 114 Hollow reflected sound (4)