Colossal Crossword
ACROSS
1 Huge predatory bird… (6, 5) 7 …and a large game bird of North America (6, 5) 12 Essential (5) 13 Wheel bar (4) 15 Belonging to them (5) 16 Small, biting fly (5) 17 Village fair (4) 19 Intended (5) 20 Increase by 100 per cent (6) 21 Pare (4) 23 Halt (4) 25 Honourable, respectable (6) 28 Cupboard for trophies (7) 29 Unaccompanied performer (7) 32 Instrument of the violin family (5) 33 Join on to, attach (5) 34 Soothe, pacify (7) 37 Jotter (7) 39 Like an automaton (7) 41 Cure (6) 42 Midday (4) 44 The orient (4) 46 Stand-in ruler such as Prince George during his father’s insanity (6) 49 Outlandish (7) 50 Take a pew (3) 51 Bind (3) 53 By means of (7) 55 Recess (5) 56 Subtle dig (5) 57 Feeling of regret (7) 58 Clever humour (3) 60 Boy (3) 61 Competence (7) 62 Easy pace (6) 64 Tolerate (4) 66 Dog’s cry (4) 67 Curt (6) 70 London fooball club (7) 71 Small newspaper format (7) 73 Novice (7) 75 Sacred table (5) 77 Skin transplant (5) 79 Traveller’s cases (7) 81 — shy, fairground stall (7) 84 Cane plant (6) 85 Tidy (4) 87 Per person (4) 89 Project (6) 91 Assumed name (5) 92 Narrow part of a bottle (4) 93 Preside over (a meeting) (5) 95 Male duck (5) 97 Joke (4) 98 High body temperature (5) 99 Small bird of prey which hunts yet smaller birds (11) 100 Kind of swallow which nests under eaves (5, 6)
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1 Type of piano (5) 2 Gossip (6) 3 Grow old (3) 4 Big (5) 5 Secret lair (7) 6 1980s pop group whose hits included Our House (7) 8 Own up (5) 9 Do sums (3) 10 List of topics to discuss (6) 11 Throw out (5) 14 Bay tree (6) 18 Cricket team (6) 21 Carpentry tool (5) 22 Portable light (7) 23 Absence of sound (7) 24 Wallpaper adhesive (5) 26 Happen (5) 27 Panel of directors (5) 30 Pinned emblem (5) 31 Precise (5) 35 Approximately (5) 36 Tubby ale? (5) 38 Astonishment (9) 40 Good-looking (9) 43 Vague (7) 45 Riding leather worker (7) 47 Resume afresh (5) 48 Water vapour (5) 49 Pub room (3) 50 Stitch, darn (3) 52 Howards —, novel by E M Forster (3) 54 Dried grass (3) 59 Uptight (5) 60 — Henry, comedian (5) 62 Deliberately break the rules (5) 63 Background actor on film or TV (5) 65 Beaming (7) 66 Carte —, free reign (7) 68 Canal craft (5) 69 Incisors or molars, eg (5) 72 Memorise (5) 74 Hard to chew (5) 76 Road-surfacing material (6) 78 Assert, claim (6) 80 Previously (7) 81 Nightclub entertainment (7) 82 Woollen South American cape (6) 83 Regard highly (6) 84 Unexpected payment (5) 86 Pointing symbol (5) 88 Relating to hearing (5) 90 Consumed (5) 94 Leslie —, actress known for Men Behaving Badly (3) 96 Donkey (3)