Colossal Crossword

ACROSS

Hotel booking… (11)

… and someone who can arrange it for you (6, 5)

Druid, eg (5)

Optimum (4)

Tend, care for (5)

Brag (5)

Association, society (4)

19 Once more (5)

20 Gratitude (6)

21 Wallop, thump (4)

23 Brief TV or film extract (4)

25 Beer mixed

with lemonade (6)

28 Financial hardship (7)

29 Upper-case letter (7)

32 Drug derived

from poppies (5)

33 Helicopter part (5)

34 Medical dressing (7)

37 Emerging from sleep (7)

39 Unwell on a boat? (7)

41 Yellow cage bird (6)

42 Small arrow (4)

44 Engrave (4)

46 Mend one’s ways (6)

49 Wariness (7)

50 Female pig (3) 1 7

12 13 15 16 17 51 Pumpernickel grain (3)

53 Journey’s end? (7)

55 — town, abandoned

settlement (5)

56 Sacred water lily (5)

57 Embossed writing system for the visually impaired (7)

58 Until now (3)

60 Popular sandwich meat (3)

61 Unauthorised absence

from school (7)

62 Archive (6)

64 Chimney passage (4)

66 Ladder’s step (4)

67 Turn sharply (6)

70 Defraud (7)

71 Own (7)

73 Emotional upheaval (7)

75 Polite (5)

77 Witch’s incantation (5)

79 Driving permit (7)

81 Grave, solemn (7)

84 Flour manufacturer (6)

85 Storm-force wind (4)

87 Read (a bar code) (4)

89 Tournament prize (6)

91 Frenzied state (5)

92 Circular metal

percussion instrument (4)

93 Professorship (5) 95 Chevy —,

US comedian (5)

97 Bill of fare (4)

98 Muslim religion (5)

99 Pleasure vessel (6, 5)

100 Cultural tourist activity (11)

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Automaton (5)

Disappear (6)

Craggy hill (3)

Jesse —, famed Olympian (5) Arrogant (7)

World’s deepest ocean (7) Renegade (5)

By way of (3)

Most recent (6)

Brown or grey cat with distinctive darker stripes (5)

14 Deep-fried prawn dish (6)

18 Pointed surgical knife (6)

21 Wide (5)

22 Gather (crops) (7)

23 Baked treat (7)

24 Practical joke (5)

26 Gin mixer (5)

27 Traffic light colour (5)

30 Quarrel (5) 1 2 3 4

5 6 8 9 10 11

Idealistic vision (5) Brilliantly coloured parrot (5)

36 Clergyman (5)

38 Cover against financial loss whilst on holiday? (9)

40 Keepsakes from a trip (9)

43 Liquor (7)

45 Ship’s commander (7)

47 Heavenly being (5)

48 Hindu hereditary class (5)

49 Young bear (3)

50 Enclosure for pigs (3)

52 A Nightmare on — Street,

classic horror movie (3)

54 Produce (eggs) (3)

59 Shy (5)

60 Convenient (5)

62 US cattle farm (5)

63 Answer (5)

65 Distilled extract (7)

66 Profits (7)

68 Celtic language (5)

69 Praise highly (5)

72 Playground fixture (5)

74 Grieve (5)

76 Stringed instrument (6)

78 Pass, expire (6)

80 Diplomat’s

headquarters? (7) 31 35 81 Uncomplaining (7)

82 Ancient shrine where prophecies were told (6)

83 Strain, pressure (6)

84 Sorcery (5)

86 Sizable (5)

88 Spiky desert plants (5)

90 Neil —, Canadian

singer-songwriter (5)

94 Muhammad —,

late boxing champion (3)

96 Volcanic dust (3)

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