Giant Crossword

Across

9 Ram home (5,3)

10 A light note (3)

11 Make it possible to produce a bean with little top and tail (6)

Takes cocaine and drinks (6)

Come out and call back at a quarter past (7) Don’t stand up to pressure, you grant (4) Don’t bother to take a holiday on one’s own (5,5)

Made it clear the wheel had a part missing (5,3)

Rang – that’s the whole point – did ring (7) Backing strikes you fight (4)

She’s very tall – a fabulous woman! (6) Being brave in weeding out something troublesome? (8,3,6)

Plied with a lot, to drink, gives back the gun (6)

Rear a deer (4)

‘The treatment,’ they say crossly, ‘is included’ (7)

Vessel the companion had boarded earlier (8) The re-opening is a revelation (10)

A fortune? The sauce! (4)

Get to greet the guests (7)

A great big metal bar? (6)

Again think you can restore yourself to favour (6)

See it sounds like a vote in your favour (3) Tell you how much time You’ve got? (8) 12 13 14 15

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Down

1 The yelling from below, object about (10) 2 Take it – it’s a soft toy (4)

3 Renegade having a spot, perhaps, to eat, out (8)

Even prepared to cut and wrap it up in (7) Mismatched, as the patients in the ward are? (3-8)

Until now, therefore, playing a round in (10) A complication to contend with (6) Prefers to incorporate a number of tastes (8) Having a share in? You bet! (5)

Brave figure: a Latin revolutionary (7) Assumed to be standing down (3,2) 4 5

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Yields and comes back (7) A trendy individual, as is typical (2,9)

A tot, for instance, or the mum or dad (10)

Feel it’s what the greenhorn lacks (10)

Apt to be banked (8)

Very keen, though it’s torment, having a flair for (8) Because, per se, it means ‘to defame’ (7)

Beginning with the passe group (6)

Hit the ball with vim and vigour (5) Satisfy – only just (4)