THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
12 Carry things too far when you jump ship? (2,9) 13 Consumed by anger, one returning to haunt? (6) 14 After getting one run ahead, I caught: paradoxical (6) 16 Dapper, tailless little bird (4) 17 The foreigner is, on returning, wearing flip-flops (9) 18 Snag eligible bachelor (5) 19 Three-page item in travel brochure (4) 20 In random inspection, see and arrest (4,5) 22 They’re propelled by poles, or kicks (5) 23 Find out case has gone off on wrong train (9) 27 Pal building dream house in front of (7) 30 Mum is returning, having been allowed to borrow (6) 31 What made you put two and two together? (4) 32 Hard to undo, though well oiled (5) 35 Light or heavy timber (4) 36 Playing card for solitaire (7) 38 Does one sing for fun? (4) 39 Start to remove the shoe without undoing it? (4,3) 42 Consuming a very tart relish (6) 45 Search for the murder weapon? (5) 46 An attempt to remedy defective hearing (7) 47 He saved his shipmates from a watery grave (4) 48 Bird call, muted, from a cage (4) 50 Cook heard he left to become a waiter (7) 52 Keen to find about how old Elizabeth is (5) 54 Want to train the side again (6) 56 Label as ‘a persevering type’ (7) 57 For you, among the finest hours (4) 59 Paid informer who’s spending the money acquired? (7) 61 One who can be relied on to put baby to sleep (4) 64 Little error. Left out name (5) 66 Blonde, pretty and bright (4) 67 Maintains there’s been a second reduction to class I’m in (6) 69 Walked the horse around very quietly (7) 72 Sadly, with Dame Fortune smiling less upon (5,4) 73 Really do your best to accommodate university student (5) 74 Finds it doesn’t mean ‘lays bare’ (9) 79 Possesses the power to secure a door or window (4) 81 Point worm out, hiding on the lawn? (5) 82 South, then east. That’s plain (9) 83 Bang the point in with a tool (4) 85 Kids, sees at play (6) 86 ‘4’ didn’t start off as a clergyman (6) 87 Blak magik? (3,8)
DOWN
1 Cat climbs, hot on tail of insect (4) 2 Bird, a duck, got caught. Get a vet round (6) 3 Tear off and run into a young woman (6) 4 Right answer to clue ‘Discipline’ (7) 5 I took right back to the editor and had a go at (5) 6 A thousand, in all? (5,5) 7 Long, the day before, to jilt (5) 8 Deletes ‘Only colours permitted’ (6,3) 9 One getting off, or having got off, weight (7) 10 Left at the post office, then right (4) 11 Beauty taking in small skirt to make smaller (8) 15 Dumb, getting smart within very short time (6) 21 Inclined to have one follow the pair (5) 24 Figure the bumpkin is inside and get set (7) 25 Do remove very roughly (3,3) 26 Bottle or, perhaps, its contents (6) 28 ‘Playing Moor,’ note interpolated, ‘but not Othello’ (5) 29 Pop up, too (3) 33 The one who’s spread disease has a burden to bear (7) 34 Until man made arable (6) 37 Very much fear twin daughters are involved in (5) 40 Just a novice in, but showing natural ability (5) 41 Run in, stupid, out to create turmoil (7) 43 More or less adjoin. There’s a space in the middle (5) 44 Hastier, hares off before the rain (6) 46 Plants, English, with bright colours for the border (5) 49 Jars that taste vinegary (7) 51 Now, now! Stick together (6) 53 Feeling down, won’t be if you get lit up (6) 55 Bit of a fool, accepting credit (5) 58 Not liked, is neglected (7-3) 60 Rubbish will decompose (3) 62 Buck up. It’s cold out here (5) 63 Lip-read to get the slogan (9) 65 One and the same, subsequently proves to be a pagan (8) 68 Grants the wall’s buckling and hollow inside (6) 70 I’m flying in meat from Belgium (7) 71 Giving us dig, jogging, approaching street to turn off (7) 75 A chopper is a craft (6) 76 Macho with little girl, to annoy (6) 77 A gem, or what enabled thieves to grab one from jeweller’s? (5) 78 ‘35’ catching river fish (5) 80 Pole position (4) 84 A beach — with sun as well (4)