Colossal Crossword

ACROSS

Hat worn at graduation… (11)

… and one associated with Sherlock Holmes (11) Moderately warm (5) County of Ireland (4) Concise and meaningful (5)

16 Circus performer (5)

17 Loud explosion (4)

19 Large building of flats (5)

20 Tusked Arctic

mammal (6)

21 Worry (4)

23 Addition symbol (4)

25 Pretext (6)

28 Kitchen appliance, eg (7)

29 Plank under train rails (7)

32 Ice cream biscuit? (5)

33 Nip (5)

34 Art of paper-folding (7)

37 Foot rest

for a 93 Across (7)

39 Reusable spacecraft (7)

41 London’s river (6)

42 Tiff, quarrel (4)

44 Sunset (4)

46 Australian city (6)

49 Gossip (7)

50 Lump of butter (3) 1 7

12 13 15 51 Small number (3)

53 Admiration (7)

55 Soup serving spoon (5)

56 Humble,

belittle (oneself) (5)

57 Size of a gun barrel (7)

58 Teacher’s favourite? (3)

60 Spring month (3)

61 Lacking depth (7)

62 Prepare for an exam (6)

64 Optical glass (4)

66 Cast off leaves, eg (4)

67 Sharp, sour (6)

70 Crime against the state (7)

Pained expression (7) Laurence —,

Oscar winner for

1948’s Hamlet (7)

Sister of the

Duchess of Cambridge (5)

77 Dull and uninteresting (5)

79 — Blake, illustrator (7)

81 Down payment (7)

84 Measure of medicine (6)

85 Write on a keyboard (4)

87 Running contest (4)

89 Cold season (6)

91 Demon (5)

92 Inner Hebrides island (4)

93 Equestrian (5) 71 73

75 95 Close, compact (5)

97 Layabout? (4)

98 Assertively masculine (5)

99 Cap from Scotland... (3-1-7)

100 … and one worn by a motorcyclist for safety (5, 6)

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Large parrot (5)

Meal (6)

Annual grass (3)

Piece of poetry (5) Hermit (7)

Talk about (7)

Do very well (5)

Top 10 hit for

Duran Duran (3)

Ship for transporting oil (6) Scamp (5)

Comic —,

Red Nose Day charity (6) Business intelligence (6)

21 Throw (5)

22 Sightseer (7)

23 Glad (7)

24 Smudge, daub (5)

26 Quick, rapid (5)

27 Small orchard (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9

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18 30 Put to practical use (5)

31 Legally dubious? (5)

35 Two pints (5)

36 Rigid, inflexible (5)

38 Knitted face covering (9)

40 Brief piece of music between the sections of another performance (9)

43 Agricultural yield (7)

45 Peculiar (7)

47 Bonnie —,

husky Welsh vocalist (5)

48 Put on clothes (5)

49 Ad —, for a

particular purpose only (3)

50 Vim and vigour (3)

52 Route (3)

54 Haul behind (3)

59 Tall building (5)

60 En —, all together (5)

62 — Fiennes, movie star (5)

63 Natural

sweetener (5)

65 — and Son, sitcom (7)

66 Eavesdropper (7)

68 Voluptuous (5)

69 Glasgow river (5)

72 Get on (a horse) (5)

74 Speaking tone (5)

76 Toxin (6)

78 Doorway (6) 80 Book for jotting in (7)

81 Turkish —,

jelly-like confection (7)

82 Fireside (6)

83 Involuntary

movement (6)

84 Move aimlessly (5)

86 Remove

by cleansing (5)

88 Thespian (5)

90 Automaton (5)

94 College fellow (3)

96 Talk idly? (3) Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror