Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Free from physical injury (6)
13 Breakfast food (6)
14 Black insect that is a kitchen pest (9)
16 Square of grass (4)
18 Baptise (8)
19 Single payment (4,3)
20 Printing fluid (3)
21 Muddy sound (7)
22 Country whose capital is Rome (5)
23 Called (a meeting) (8)
25 Is heavier than (9)
27 Look after (plants) (4)
29 Bread roll with a sugary glaze (4,3)
31 Shape like a flattened circle (7)
33 Complex board‑game (5)
35 Rowdy, awkward (7)
39 Stylishly fashionable (4)
41 Beauty‑salon treatment (6)
44 Tearing along (7)
45 Footballer’s club move (8)
48 Not secure (6)
49 Top of a house (4)
50 Discount (9)
52 Friendly (7)
56 Specific pain on the side of head (7)
58 Lie on water (5)
59 Final course of a meal (7)
60 Disco’s flashing light (6)
62 Customer of a shop or restaurant (6)
64 Give off (energy or light) (7)
67 Sudden fall in business (5)
69 Get in touch with (7)
71 Large brown American bear (7)
73 Hid, found shelter (4,5)
74 Garage incline (4)
75 Available to buy (2,4)
78 Garden washstand for our feathered friends (4‑4)
80 Excite into action (7)
82 Glided across ice (6)
83 Large brass‑band instrument (4)
85 Fridge in a hotel room (7)
87 Sobbed (5)
89 Hilly country (7)
91 Temporary substitute (7)
96 Body dusting powder (4)
98 Identification of a disease from symptoms (9)
100 Protective clothing for the police (4,4) 101 Neighbourhood pub (5)
104 Star’s wardrobe assistant (7)
106 Wall‑climbing plant (3)
107 Straightens out, twists open (7)
109 Gatecrashes (8)
110 Part of a camera (4)
111 Cockiness (9)
112 At an angle (6)
113 Mount, climb (6)
DOWN
1 Head protection in hot weather (3,3) 2 Overjoyed (8)
3 Reality (5)
4 Average height of the ocean’s surface (3,5)
5 Curly hairdo (4)
6 Finished or shut (6)
7 Printed text of a play (6) 8 Hikers (8) 9 Old‑fashioned word for ‘you’ (4) 10 High heel (8)
11 Dirty ragged child (6)
14 Hurry up! (4,2)
15 Delegate (a task) (6)
17 Poke your nose in (5)
24 Metal pin for wood (4) 26 Smooth glossy material (5)
28 Deaden (sound) (6)
30 Sacha Baron ___, Borat star (5)
32 Person at school or college (7)
34 Chicken (3)
36 Danger (5)
37 Ought to (6)
38 Upper limb (3)
40 Item of furniture (5)
42 Boat for passengers and vehicles (3,5)
43 Distant, standoffish (5)
46 Natural aptitude (5)
47 Trickle or leak slowly out (4)
51 Paper towel (6)
53 Stone‑worker (5)
54 Return, retreat (2,4)
55 Casserole dish (8)
56 Long period of time (3)
57 Artificial waterway (5)
61 Place money on a horse (3) 63 Beard remover (5)
65 Let fall to the ground (4)
66 Progress as a species (6)
67 Talk more loudly (5,2)
68 Practical joke (5)
70 Profitable possession (5)
72 Jewish religious leader (5)
75 At work (of a policeman, eg) (2,4)
76 Scales sign of the zodiac (5)
77 Pig house (3)
79 Hair plait (5)
81 Grass similar to wheat (3)
84 Salad cream, familiarly (4)
86 Become bigger (8)
88 Positions in a sporting scale (8)
90 Dissolved in the stomach (8)
92 Film’s financial controller (8)
93 More blonde (6)
94 Convince or guarantee (6)
95 Foundation (5)
97 Muddled, confused (6)
99 Expressing in words (6)
100 Alcove, niche (6)
102 Meeting’s programme (6)
103 Store secretly (5)
105 Burglar’s booty (4)
108 Common heavy metal (4)