THE JUMBO PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 News captions (9)
10 Refuse orders (7) 14 Woodworking tool (5) 15 Surpass, exceed (5)
16 Produce milk (7)
17 and 1 Down Host of the long-running music show Later With... (5,7)
18 West African country (7,4) 20 Notice (3)
21 Not quite shut (4)
23 House in the countryside (7) 24 and 53 Across Welsh naturalist and regular Springwatch contributor (4,8)
25 Moist (4)
28 Tied (4)
30 Embellished (6)
33 Comedian and judge on ITV entertainment show The Masked Dancer (2,8) 36 Shampoo pouch (6)
37 Roman garb (4)
38 Outskirts of a city (8) 41 Portuguese capital (6)
43 and 73 Across Actress presenter of Channel 4’s In The Footsteps Of Killers (6,3)
46 See 4 Down
48 Parades (11)
50 Load (6)
51 Terror or dread (6)
53 See 24 Across
56 Religious image (4)
58 See 36 Down
59 Christina ‘Tina’ Mollett in
BBC’S Casualty (5,5) 61 Assimilate (6)
65 Remove from the surface of (4) 67 Fish-eating eagle (4) 70 European volcano (4)
71 Nabs (7)
72 _ Khan, British boxing star (4) 73 See 43 Across
75 Swimming costume (7,4) 80 Extreme pain (5)
81 Precisely (7)
82 Supernatural (5)
83 Swellings (5)
84 Dislikes intensely (7)
85 See 60 Down
DOWN 1 See 17 Across 2 Praise publicly (7)
3 Intentionally disclose
information (4)
4 and 46 Across Irish animal surgeon
known as The Supervet (4,11) 5 Lazy person (4)
6 Sun (4)
7 Punctuation marks (10)
8 Max Mcgerry in BBC drama
Holby City (2,6)
9 Less curly (10)
10 Martial arts centre (4)
11 Chimney dust (4)
12 Element of an orchestra (7) 13 Christmas fire wood (4,3) 19 Encourage (4)
22 Military decoration (5)
26 In addition (4)
27 Wild feline (4)
29 Carriage (5)
31 Cleaning item (7)
32 Car, say (7)
34 Formal party (4)
35 Tennis shot (3)
36 and 58 Across Entrepreneur who joined the Dragons’ Den panel in 2019 (4,6)
39 Kitchen cupboard? (4)
40 Middle Eastern market (6) 42 Story in instalments (6) 44 Steward (7)
45 Concise (7)
47 Opposed to, informally (4) 49 Female pigs (4)
50 Projecting edge (4)
51 Stilettos? (5)
52 Grain used in bread (3) 54 Scientist’s workplace (10) 55 Deliberately spoiling (10) 56 Wight or Man, for example (4) 57 Kiln (4)
60 and 85 Across Dev Alahan in
Coronation Street (5,9)
62 Short joke or witty remark (3-5) 63 Edible saltwater fish or
shellfish (7)
64 Imprecise (7)
66 New Zealand symbol (4) 68 Repeated fixture (7)
69 Near the beginning (5,2) 74 Weeps (4)
75 Extras in cricket (4)
76 Reverse (4)
77 Nonsense, informally (4)
78 365 days (4)
79 Indian garment (4)