THE GIANT CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 13 Happens when one acts as substitute (5,5) 14 ‘A hundred and three’ is scribbled on the outside of the coach (7) 15 Very early, going off to ring the number (6) 16 Attack at a price (6) 17 Manages to find accommodation, evicted (4,3) 18 Scolded for having changed date to end of year (5) 19 Until yours truly is brought to book (4) 20 Did one’s best and, capturing run, drew (5) 21 Shop obtained for small rent (5) 22 In the arena, is not out for the count (6) 23 Winnie is hugging the cold dog (5) 28 Frightened little boy who’s had bad dream (7) 30 Over an hour stuck in the gully (7) 33 Land a little to the south (5,4) 36 Yak is a herbivore (6) 38 Old — very — and in the red, had no fixed abode (5) 39 ‘Arthritic’ fits but is wrong, fathead! (5) 40 Drives the missus round, too, worriedly (6) 42 One left in the dark (5) 43 Hot, one is about to get a short haircut (7) 44 With pressure, getting through old piece of wire (6) 46 Still on the agenda, creating commotion (2-2) 49 Talk big and ballyrag friend in absentia (4) 51 Stop a car entering the redoubled east (6) 53 Damn nonsense about the family ‘Homo sapiens’ (7) 55 Reading letters aloud for kid (5) 59 In the same trouble ourselves, which is funny (6) 60 Among ‘Authors (English)’, an Arab, perhaps (5) 61 Nick will set to music (5) 62 Because cover is broken, then, hurry (6) 63 And getting the list back in my keeping is essential (9) 65 More upset, I renounced rise to show repentance (7) 66 With string, tie, knotting to the explosive (7) 70 Puzzle solving, must have quiet (5) 71 Loves the commercial with the rambling rose (6) 73 What mother and brother have in common, though different (5) 75 For distribution, not a penny is available (2,3) 80 Turn page in ‘Fall from Grace’ (4) 82 Bleating, beg to get out of a school class (5) 83 The usual tour out in the East (7) 84 Liquid preparation poured out. Not oil (6) 85 Very tired twiddling about, turn off (6) 86 Gathered everybody is in dire trouble (7) 87 Avoid garment that shows leg — fat (5,5) ACROSS 13 Happens (5,5) 14 Instructor (7) 15 Truly (6) 16 Fee (6) 17 Unearths (4,3) 18 Scolded (5) 19 Big book (4) 20 Attempted (5) 21 Shop (5) 22 Getting up (6)

QUICK CLUES

23 Dog (5) 28 Frightened (7) 30 Finished (7) 33 Land (5,4) 36 Children’s pet (6) 38 Wondered (5) 39 Rigid (5) 40 Drives (6) 42 Without light (5) 43 Short haircut (7) 44 Wire fastener (6) 46 Fuss (2-2) 49 Boast (4) 51 Stop (6) 53 Human beings (7) 55 Chaff (5) 59 Makes laugh (6) 60 Mount (5) 61 Orchestrate (5) 62 Hurry (6) 63 Compulsory (9) 65 Repentance (7) 66 Explosive (7) 70 Perplex (5) 71 Loves (6) 73 Different (5) 75 Available (2,3) 80 Whirl (4) 82 Dead language (5) 83 Everyday (7) 84 Liquid preparation (6) 85 Deflect (6) 86 Assembled (7) 87 Avoid (5,5) DOWN 1 Disc that seals (6) 2 I agree! (4,4) 3 Close (5) 4 Decree (7) 5 Tramp (6) 6 Was upright (5) 7 Clergyman (6) 8 Hold door (7) 9 Wrecking (7,3) 10 Commerce (5) 11 Finest example (4,4) 12 Shellfish (4) 24 Cringed (7) 25 Cogs (5) 26 Venetian boat (7) 27 Run (7) 29 Study (5) 31 Refuge (5) 32 The drift (4) 34 Bowman (6) 35 Herb (4) 37 Flyovers, for instance (7) 41 Sways (7) 45 Muse (6) 47 Hounds (7) 48 Great love (7) 50 Running riot (7) 52 Irked (4) 54 Realises (5) 56 Piece of paper (5) 57 At this point (4) 58 Take picture (5) 60 Genetic (10) 64 Game (8) 67 Contribution (8) 68 Crease (7) 69 Profit (7) 72 Effort (6) 74 Dryness (6) 76 Be plentiful (6) 77 Indolence (5) 78 Red (5) 79 Wind instrument (5) 81 Couple (4) DOWN 1 Had been a lady’s ring, acting as a seal (6) 2 I agree to have two auditions (4,4) 3 Close spinning top to give to small boy (5) 4 Decree the colleague also should be admitted (7) 5 A tramp, for instance, in tattered garb (6) 6 Got up with the sun to do gymnastics (5) 7 ‘The reverend’ (‘Father’ is, by the way, an alternative) (6) 8 Love for child is her undoing (7) 9 Sending for and wrecking (7,3) 10 Bringing up two boys is a business (5) 11 In this puzzle, ‘81’ is the finest example (4,4) 12 In river, catching large shellfish (4) 24 Fish were hiding inside: were frightened (7) 25 Their job is to make things small, to be put away (5) 26 Attempt to repair an old boat (7) 27 Run, getting bad scare when politician comes in (7) 29 Figure to be employed you must acquire a skill (5) 31 Be forced to go to new refuge (5) 32 Drift is, a soldier has a way with him (4) 34 Jeffrey is Sagittarius (6) 35 Leaves a fortune (4) 37 They enable one bank to communicate with another (7) 41 Adders found in rocks (7) 45 Think the gentle drone disturbed (6) 47 Dogs are possibly best to pen the animal (7) 48 While away, I got over the obsession (7) 50 Restraining an inebriated tramp, out of control (7) 52 Hearing, go up in the air, angry (4) 54 Realises, from the refusals to state (5) 56 He prepared to cover, for the paper (5) 57 At this point or an hour before (4) 58 Photograph mum, also, standing beside (5) 60 Yet red hair could be, if Sandy’s your dad (10) 64 Cheat me so, in crooked game (8) 67 Party at which people get a gift (8) 68 Prise out, embedded right in the crease (7) 69 Profit from having been prepared well (7) 72 Is it hard work for a genealogist to trace? (6) 74 This time the river is in for a drought (6) 76 Blood type sure to be plentiful (6) 77 The more we succumb to it, the less we do (5) 78 Red fish with yellow tip to its tail (5) 79 Instrument. A noisy stringed instrument (5) 81 I mean to imprison the duo (4)