THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
12 A fool who’s all there? (8,3) 13 Both wrong, bow out from the gang (6) 14 Besides ‘Hotel’, an indicator showing ‘School’ (6) 16 Shouldn’t it be ‘is’ a region? (4) 17 Peevishness I’m going to indulge (3,6) 18 Riddle is solved the day before (5) 19 Increase offer by a quarter, or wait (4) 20 Jump to your feet — or don’t budge (5,4) 22 He dismissed the bumpkin as ‘stupid’ (5) 23 Brusque ‘I am not a member of the hospital staff’ (9) 27 How drunk hugged his pal? (7) 30 Raging fire spreading, café is evacuated (6) 31 Sole, large one (4) 32 Subsequently half retaliated, returning (5) 35 Not altogether either ‘quaking’ or ‘shaking,’ but similar to (4) 36 Closing for renovation (5,2) 38 Scatters in garden, for animals (4) 39 Sounds like a title for a story (7) 42 Seem an equal, acoustically (6) 45 Attempts to get right in; wounds (5) 46 Without exception, ran off with bone, outside (3,4) 47 Back down when I enter the stand (4) 48 Account for the name (4) 50 Saucy but not nude (7) 52 Carries test out, nothing is revealed in (5) 54 Monkey is gentle and more docile all round (6) 56 Concealing right old surprise! (7) 57 Great pass, having caught ball (4) 59 Trendy new house on the outskirts that’s abominable (7) 61 In deputy, a defect (4) 64 Am I abnormal, nursing an obsession (5) 66 Only said ‘Evidence you haven’t given up smoking’ (4) 67 He-he! It’s a drum! (3-3) 69 Being required to enter figure in irritated (7) 72 Experience, as you drill into (2,7) 73 Turning, pulled one inside — very strange (5) 74 Kind of figure it’s a timing device (9) 79 Laughs at ‘hot leftovers from yesterday’ (4) 81 Does it say no in horse language? (5) 82 Googling the word ‘ameliorating’? (7,2) 83 Planet in ruins (4) 85 Quickly leafs through the films (6) 86 ‘He’s very intelligent and kind,’ I interposed (6) 87 Give it back to me — now (7,4)
DOWN
1 Because there’s a U in ‘quartet’ (4) 2 I rejected soluble aspirin for minor injury (6) 3 On the right I feel bumps: raised surface (6) 4 Are dreadful lies: fabrication, you understand (7) 5 One’s sure there’s no R in ‘children’ (5) 6 Letters from oddballs (10) 7 Funny sort of egg found in place frequented by bird (5) 8 Yes, it’s a contract (9) 9 Cold and heat he regulated for animal in zoo (7) 10 River fish caught is not colourful (4) 11 To cut a long story short, cheat the stupid (8) 15 Drat! Tiny bit of egg in broth curdled (6) 21 Suppose this is out of writing fluid (5) 24 Briefly, if you put this, you intercede for (2,1,4) 25 Are in no hurry to have first of group board ship (6) 26 Look furious and growl, worried, holding lead, lad scarpers (6) 28 So then, taking time off, goes to church (5) 29 The boy is a day pupil, to start with (3) 33 Does one no good being among wild animals (7) 34 Emphasise that it’s a two-headed coin (6) 37 Told how to sit quietly, does fidget (5) 40 Sound one out when one’s come in (5) 41 A toddy for the bigwig (7) 43 Indicate the score (5) 44 Question is, how to separate the wheat from the chaff? (6) 46 Only child, aggressively male (5) 49 Quite big for a girl — strangely quiet (7) 51 Beach wear for tots (6) 53 For journey back, do stand (6) 55 Feeling emotional when one left one’s old home? (5) 58 The yahoo of the brood and he’s very untidy (6,4) 60 At rear of bus, male and female (3) 62 Where you may check if your opponent’s made a mistake (5) 63 Expenses stay-at-homes don’t have? (9) 65 Travelling abroad, the French are lovely (8) 68 Signal to abandon (6) 70 English grain is hard to come by (7) 71 Block up. Cold over, gets freed (7) 75 Write ‘About time!’ on the outside and wish you hadn’t (6) 76 It has slim elastic cover that restricts (6) 77 The object is to refer to something without naming it (5) 78 Going back year, getting help from journal (5) 80 Get money from uncle for wine (4) 84 Frost poem recited (4)