THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Immediately, but not there and then (4,3,3) 14 Preliminary messing about with, for a start, would endanger (7) 15 Idea is they should be lined with gold (6) 16 Look for a good weapon (6) 17 Forced to feel grateful (7) 18 Before I’m accommodated in first class (5) 19 Shamed, mother went back out of the building (4) 20 The suitor was in disguise (5) 21 Longs to, though one’s hard-hearted (5) 22 Are there to say goodbye to and drive back (3,3) 23 In short, love and woo (5) 28 Plans to get me into chess playing (7) 30 Naming as one’s vocation (7) 33 Separate from others, not watching TV (6,3) 36 It deters plagiarism — that’s obvious (6) 38 Love chipping one into the green (5) 39 Blows caught by the mouth (5) 40 Sit with mum inside, playing with top (6) 42 Looks and sounds like Samuel (5) 43 Dance, or what dance begins with (3-4) 44 The gunman turns again and attaches to (6) 46 Taking sanctuary in Pisan edifice is sensible (4) 49 Barking back, surprise (4) 51 Sound rule is to encircle the street (6) 53 Sign showing ‘Parking round to right’ and ‘temporary accommodation’ (7) 55 Grasp there’s a snag (5) 59 From snare, released five trapped birds (6) 60 Swathe the padre intricately in (5) 61 Amazing girl? (5) 62 Useless? On the contrary. Excellent (2,4) 63 Finishing galley duties and being taken ashore (7,2) 65 Slim figure in poster (7) 66 Stumbled over and activated the switch (7) 70 Be the boy hiding in the grass (5) 71 Small hooks attached to boats (6) 73 Detest cropping tail, ruining horse (5) 75 Quick! It’s cold! (5) 80 Name of tot bouncing ball (4) 82 He’s given little time to look around (5) 83 Usual procedure for finding way round in (7) 84 Drink a drink to Her Majesty (6) 85 Footwear and in sale having final reduction (6) 86 Pedigree given a row at a time (7) 87 Unhappy, having ignored advice to ‘Keep your hair on’? (10)
DOWN
1 Chap dropped round with wife (6) 2 Plan to take it back myself, pro tem (8) 3 Trendy group seen in picture (5) 4 Bill on your answer phone? (7) 5 When strikes go on longer than at any time before (6) 6 Making hullabaloo leave with ‘dog’ (5) 7 A suit found in the tool shed (6) 8 As the absorbing book you got hold of did? (7) 9 Basic information of no interest to mountaineers? (5,5) 10 Lester hasn’t started training to be a guide (5) 11 What one does, if artificial pillow filling irritates (4,4) 12 Brother, that is a cheese! (4) 24 Collar the man. He’s a scoundrel (7) 25 Warms up and ‘as for lunch? (5) 26 Changed a number to deter falsifying (7) 27 Cold, make certain to show disapproval (7) 29 Pursue persistently to have hospital case admitted (5) 31 Wrong am I, to go by ship? (5) 32 Who tempted you to steal? (4) 34 Sees how many are European titles (6) 35 Manner in which soldiers captured one (4) 37 Unidentified quantity of money quoted as change (7) 41 Has to have wild nag; undomesticated horse (7) 45 As a joke, take home the basket (6) 47 Transmitted earlier here (7) 48 Blasted Rover has roved! (7) 50 Given time, complain about a very hard labour (7) 52 Van that always gets the dog excited? (4) 54 Find standing right beside one (5) 56 Neck-and-neck finish (5) 57 Not imaginary for the one left there alone (4) 58 Harden one up again (5) 60 What stand-in’s saying is just gibberish (6,4) 64 As the thesaurus did for ‘argued’ (3,5) 67 Sedate, got up in yellow (8) 68 On hill, tern escaped flood (7) 69 Turn a setback into a benefit? (7) 72 Yell ‘Go away!’ jabbing point into (6) 74 In this road every one has three (6) 76 Plump for ‘The pair wriggled free’ (6) 77 In a while, form a word (5) 78 Better preserved (5) 79 Game to wear (5) 81 Had drawn, you say, an amphibian (4)