THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
12 Still love to be prepared if there’s a power cut (5,1,5) 13 To find shopkeeper, rep takes a road going west (6) 14 Knocking back double Bacardi, complain? (6) 16 So both used centre part only (4) 17 A synonym dictionary will, for ‘talk’ (4,1,4) 18 Duck, mister! (5) 19 Pass oneself off as famous author, taking society in (4) 20 Does it leave one slim, but a wreck? (5,4) 22 Return in the capsule from astronaut territory (5) 23 Giving an address one’s just made up? (2-7) 27 Are why, driven mad, one is confined as crazy (7) 30 Mum, turning fifty, is taking ten off (6) 31 Intend to cut the end off a piece of wood (4) 32 Dog, a cross, the South African is carrying (5) 35 A crack marksman (4) 36 The current medication (7) 38 A split at top of drain created slow leak (4) 39 Again, crooked sport is making news (7) 42 It chimes and I’m put out. Is irritating (6) 45 Animal imbibing rain water (5) 46 When it rambles in the garden, is it going walkies? (3,4) 47 Players having drink before beginning of match (4) 48 Hobble, but not as a result of stiff leg? (4) 50 United with again, having said we wouldn’t (7) 52 Chaps consuming large round fruit (5) 54 Just the thing, if you want to go places! (6) 56 Having rendezvous with Margaret round about ten, I dress (7) 57 Intend amending first half: changing it (4) 59 Cut to a lake, showing divers (7) 61 Small d for ‘dandelion’? (4) 64 Translate Verne? Definitely not! (5) 66 Send after (4) 67 Thinking it funny not having a starter (6) 69 Messes about with, sounding gongs (7) 72 Give role to but do, perhaps, voice qualms (4,5) 73 Having joker and Queen, bet on (5) 74 Make a copy again and place it, folded, beside (9) 79 Part of wineglass that’s shaped like a flower? (4) 81 Dim and overweight, covered in (5) 82 Adam (5,4) 83 How anxious one is made by brinkmanship? (4) 85 Open that is either won or lost? (6) 86 Old star mingling with bit players (6) 87 Instalment of an actor’s earnings? (4,7)
DOWN
1 Money figure has proved to be wrong (4) 2 Plays the fellow who takes gambles (6) 3 Bundle she brought in to be laundered (6) 4 French museum’s means of ventilation (7) 5 Manoeuvring cars to get parking, squabble (5) 6 At the time, I’d acted wrongly and erased (10) 7 On spring day, English gardeners will use it (5) 8 What being given four aces would mean to poker player? (5,4) 9 Means I need treatment: a mental problem (7) 10 Grasp wrong end and tear (4) 11 A suspicion is implanted and that’s troublesome (8) 15 Large car sent round for the two (6) 21 Are out cold hour later when you get to (5) 24 Ensure the feast won’t be candle-lit? (7) 25 An Australian lodger? (6) 26 Season well (6) 28 See what, crawling, got caught inside (5) 29 Stick up for: do right by (3) 33 Scribble ‘Flee!’ (4,3) 34 About a hundred and ten, roughly, are new (6) 37 Tendency to stand right at the bottom (5) 40 Going out East with European kid (5) 41 Reckon to go by railway to rural area (7) 43 Time and again, dripping wet, I catch cold (5) 44 Tied up, grunts, thrashing about (6) 46 Walks out on, creating depression (5) 49 I packed into shiny leather case (7) 51 Hates splashing out to get hard cover (6) 53 Being a means of support (6) 55 It’s mutual. We had been intimidated by (5) 58 Difficult act that giving away all one’s possessions would be? (2,4,4) 60 Be in bed and say you’re not? (3) 62 Neck and neck time after the race (5) 63 A cook book that’s nothing to be proud of (9) 65 Once performing, it’s onerous (8) 68 Not sociable, make mistake of going in for drink (6) 70 Tell secret? Let female into? No dice, silly! (7) 71 Teepee’s got an occupant — or various occupants (7) 75 A little upset and put about by latitude given (6) 76 Care to edit the writing on cosmetics? (6) 77 Say ‘Best be off before tea-break’ (5) 78 Scribble last e in ‘thieve’ (5) 80 What, in the past, used to be chain letter (4) 84 Good number having left (4)