GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
13 One wielding authority before
exercise has electric tool (5,5)
14 Male accompanied by a
tough and powerful dog (7)
15 Toxic stuff quietly soon spread
around institute (6)
16 Book introducing role I suspect
for heating apparatus (6)
17 Merit shown by verse composed
in Germany and Spain (7)
18 Turn away a former military
employee? About right (5)
19 Aims shown by European
directors after vacation (4)
20 Children beginning to block
entrance in turn (5)
21 Join peacekeepers in front
of location lacking sun (5)
22 Graduate is given in rotation
Sikh headwear (6)
23 Abandon thing requiring
excavation (5)
28 Delight shown by a theologian
in Scottish valley (7)
30 Outline external parts of
really ornamental work (7)
33 Firm with sort of fab, free
refreshment venue (6,3)
36 Practical living initially found
in renovated abode (6)
38 Female enthralled by exotic
loaf and meat parts (5)
39 Damp start to October
shrouded by haze (5)
40 Salad component is hard to cook (6) 42 Take a measure of exercise,
maybe, to suit (5)
43 After revolution, name leaders
of coup seen as very severe (7)
44 Source of beauty in wild acorn?
There’s an element (6)
46 Sound French banker, we’re told (4) 49 End to boxing match is
acceptable, first to last (4)
51 Plan at home followed by nurse (6) 53 Relax with story from the past (3,4) 55 Guard regularly wearing hat?
That’s sensational (5)
59 Haggle with lawyer,
no flipping gentleman (6)
60 Something naturally transmitted
about island spirit (5)
61 Rush downhill, lacking
power and thrust (5)
62 Confirm breakdown of Fiat
in outskirts of Rugby (6)
63 Evict a mob after rioting,
full of antagonism? (9)
65 Demarcated group in British
criminal enterprise (7)
66 Position in hierarchy managed
by monarch (7)
70 Flexible objective kept by those
on the verges of bankruptcy (5)
71 Horrified husband in long story from
the East ending in torment (6)
73 Darius and Niki on and off
in an intoxicated state? (5)
75 Modify a part about
U.S. prosecutor (5)
80 Greek embassy’s walls
proving nondescript (4)
82 Skimpy garment features
in marathon game (5)
83 Mike has a peculiarly clean
thing used for restraint (7)
84 Humid start to summer truly
requiring analysis (6)
85 Aiming at obtaining striking
car for the most part (3,3)
86 Innocence shown by a teen
wandering around middle of dive (7) 87 Gang rung in randomly as
repeated joke (7,3)
DOWN
1 Misrepresent Green, perhaps (6) 2 Food prepared with glee, generating optimism (8) 3 Love meandering road close to lake (5)
4 Fine, fashionable Dutch cocktail of gin? That’s a discovery (7) 5 Covert group largely infiltrating awful sect (6) 6 Married artist with manuscript shown up for ingratiating behaviour (5) 7 Accord? It’s advantage when sealing end to dissension (6) 8 Peculiar business getting order
lately in revolutionary period (7) 9 Starter oaf ruined to some extent (5,1,4) 10 Southern deli product found in huge amount (5)
11 Lift not half shown by excited viewer, energetic type (4,4) 12 Women love piece of publicity for a dye (4)
24 Make rougher things used by rowers in centre? Not half (7) 25 Discourage one seeking to shed weight when shunning first of indulgences (5)
26 A thing that’s asserted about Conservative getting praise (7) 27 Insult from fighter in a revolutionary group (7)
29 Free facilities online (5) 31 Plunder creamy dessert with no end of fat (5)
32 Surly person is deprived of good rest (4)
34 Fight group to get collection of items (3,3)
35 Female singer showing enthusiasm after rising (4) 37 Trouble in stint making one escape? (4,3)
41 Gus and Sid developed over time a revulsion (7)
45 One supporting supplier of buns around entrance to city (6) 47 Wrongly judge broadcast
I stream (7)
48 Hotel I left overlooking secure mound (7)
50 Sailor without company gets seafood (7)
52 Number retained by
expedition in Egypt (4)
54 Head bishop in the past (5)
56 Informal article in French
for amusement (2,3)
57 Be clothed in Western
kit excluding top (4)
58 Feature of a tyre poorly rated (5) 60 Supply reason to make way (4,6) 64 Unusually bald Yankee on
holiday in a poor state (5,3)
67 Youngster given piece of wood
in ordinary yard is bluffing? (8)
68 A grain’s mixed for
Spanish drink (7)
69 Deduce response from those
denying major fire? (7)
72 Meddle in resort in
Florida, we hear (6)
74 Put down musical artist’s work (6) 76 Side of a ship with
a large entrance (6)
77 Fixed look in celebrity
with little energy (5)
78 Park employee losing
head in fury (5)
79 Romeo after Italian wine
is in an excited state (5)
81 Batter lastly bowled, perhaps,
in overwhelming victory (4)