Colossal Crossword

ACROSS

1 Written piece of music… (11)

7 … and how it’s adapted for different instruments (11) 12 Automaton (5) 13 Fingertip growth (4) 15 N American deer (5) 16 Old-fashioned (5) 17 Bring-and-buy sale (4) 19 Bathroom sink (5) 20 Crunchy snack (6) 21 Skeletal part (4) 23 Aromatic plant (4) 25 Sufficient (6)

28 Strong aftershave (7)

29 Forsake (7)

32 Fragment (5)

33 Regal (5)

34 Duplicating (7) 37 Conducting business (7)

39 Singular facial hair (7)

41 Modest, prim (6) 42 Well-behaved (4) 44 Tenth of a decade (4)

46 Be reliant (6) 49 Graceful antelope (7)

50 The — and the Pussy-cat, poem by Edward Lear (3) 51 Positive reply (3) 53 Portending disaster (7)

55 Groom (plumage) (5) 56 Official escort (5) 57 A person (7)

58 Finish (3)

60 Meal in pastry (3) 61 Beaming (7)

62 Book published once each 44A (6)

64 — Lynn, wartime singer (4)

66 Striped stone (4) 67 Oval nut (6)

70 Protects (7) 71 Liquorice flavour (7)

73 Storm (7) 75 Proposal (5) 77 Mistake (5)

79 Accept as true (7) 81 City on the Avon (7)

84 Verse of a poem (6)

85 — and needles, tingling feeling (4) 87 Cards dealt to a player (4)

89 Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific (6) 91 Male relation (5) 92 Cooker (4) 93 Academic tests (5)

95 Upper atmosphere gas (5)

97 Unfasten (4) 98 Magazine edition (5)

99 Public venue where musicians play… (7, 4)

100 … and the show you may enjoy there (11)

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1 Snide type (5) 2 Triangular

Asian pasty (6) 3 Prime number (3) 4 Vast sea (5)

5 Cute, delightful (7) 6 South American republic (7)

8 Crest of high ground (5) 9 Intelligent insect (3)

10 Novelty appliance (6) 11 Cutting edges of a saw (5)

14 Spike of frozen water (6)

18 The actors’ union (6)

21 Swag (5)

22 Due to be married (7)

23 Fit, well (7)

24 Wide (5)

26 Velocity (5) 27 Interior house design (5)

30 Quarrel (5) 31 Inundate (5) 35 Award for valour (5) 36 Impetuous or brisk (5) 38 Astonishment (9) 40 Device for setting off explosives (9) 43 Keep watch on (7) 45 Salty tinned fish (7)

47 Drive away (5) 48 Fret (5)

49 Vapour (3)

50 Single, lone (3) 52 Prosecute (3) 54 Take a pew (3) 59 Blueprint (5) 60 Indicate with an arrow (5) 62 Senior monk (5) 63 Warning bell (5) 65 Postal details (7) 66 Fast-running flightless bird (7) 68 Afterwards (5) 69 Private journal (5) 72 Sheer (5)

74 Arrogant (5)

76 False front to a building (6) 78 Capture once more (6)

80 Sincere (7)

81 Make an emergency parachute jump from an aeroplane (4, 3) 82 Employment history (6)

83 Come into view (6) 84 Long-suffering type (5)

86 Of the nose (5) 88 Overhead (5) 90 Returned from sleep (5) 94 Cigarette flickings (3)

96 Bad, rotten (3)