THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Understanding everything, completely exonerate (5,5)
14 Come forward with financial assistance (7)
15 Ways in which our renovation acquired setback (6)
16 Right for retiring salesman (6)
17 Really big day requiring rest afterwards, to restore (7)
18 It’s designed to muffle very noisy quarrels (5)
19 Landlord of ‘The Headless Phantom’ (4)
20 I do stupidly get taken in by it — fool (5)
21 Embedding point in, cut and grind (5)
22 Gave bang to and jammed right inside (6)
23 Threatened, fifty per cent regrouped, showing courage (5)
28 How ‘You can’t cut it’ was said, undiplomatically? (7)
30 Because the protege is cheeky (7)
33 Attack that’s not on. Is even crooked (9)
36 Fellow should have struggled against (6)
38 One lot is absolutely flawless (5)
39 Prompt answer to ‘Who wrote “A Tale Of A Tub”?’ (5)
40 Tried to rally voters (6)
42 Exhausted, women took year off (5)
43 Say to myself ‘Not in order’ (7)
44 For members of trade union, cheap; roughly a pound (6)
46 He’ll make an impression (4)
49 ‘It’s a fruit, stupid!’ say (4)
51 Seat you make your home in (6)
53 Listening when he takes a call (7)
55 Residential road in the vicinity (5)
59 Stick a number on the drawing (6)
60 Forged note? That’s a pity (5)
61 Or shake us at one point to awaken (5)
62 Decree otherwise and I get upset (6)
63 Into which birds go when taking flight? (5,4)
65 Snow-drift enveloping a road ahead (7)
66 How the total domestic product had been exaggerated? (7)
70 The usual basis for a sauce (5)
71 Cheerful at pub, ordering, have meal (6)
73 Vow, as we are held captive (5)
75 The same figure, it got to (5)
80 Sun, close to setting, is dim (4)
82 Went berserk when I interrupted the yarn (5)
83 Unsheathe as you leave (4,3) 84 Reimbursed for material
assistance given (6)
85 Look smart about — but not very (6)
86 Again she is worried about being
the beneficiary (7)
87 Reptile that sings? (5,5)
DOWN
1 Set free though really bad (6)
2 Either resign or have a demotion (4,4)
3 The true facts about the double-cross (5)
4 Foreign — European — and that’s pertinent (7)
5 Run rings round commercial trade names (6)
6 In sandwiches, does it stick slices of bread together? (5)
7 Fends off a few, the rest disperse (6)
8 Coming to when siren goes off outside (2,5)
9 Conniption fussy tailor will have if suit isn’t (7,3)
10 I put out fire and mum is chilly (5)
11 And certainly not far more. Just the opposite (4,4)
12 With measles, ale is vetoed. It’s a dilemma (4)
24 Also knocked back a restorative (7)
25 Illustration showing race (5)
26 Foolishly buy — and eat (7)
27 Least upset by housing, which is awful? (7)
29 Lax, be beaten hollow in (5)
31 In open, getting ball to green (5)
32 Has moved to other end. Ill-considered (4)
34 Strip for retiring. I’d got to undergarment (6)
35 Want, as wife, one’s husband to (4)
37 Jacket, perhaps, fellow put arm into (7)
41 Saw through and — odd — was really sorry for (7)
45 Criticised for having followed with a camera (6)
47 Leave me alone. I have got so behindhand (7)
48 Share-out. Yes, that’s what we have been told (7)
50 Piece of paper providing little snack for giraffe? (7)
52 Be lazy pupil and lout (4)
54 Plump for sandwiches and drinks (5)
56 Calm. I’ll get under way (5)
57 The girl with the shortened trousers (4)
58 Be anxious about — or warped about (5)
60 Will a strong nightcap ensure that you do? (5,5)
64 Well done — if you can get it? (4,4)
67 Reading only parts of ‘Exercising To Keep Fit’ (8)
68 He doesn’t believe either was knocked out cold (7)
69 ‘As friend, Arthur,’ I put in, ‘is biased’ (7)
72 The fur is a little present, dear (6)
74 Infused with good, having sworn off iniquities (6)
76 Imagines one doesn’t act instinctively (6)
77 Remains when ship circumnavigates river (5)
78 Having plenty of money is, for female, luxurious (5)
79 Have a clean-up — or a dust-up (5)
81 In the first place, a youth is full of energy (4)