GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 13
Associate with a kind of comedy (5,5)
14 For stealing a bundle of,
the convict is put inside (7) 15 How much you put
on a horse (6)
16 Linked together, step
onto the street (6)
17 Felt he’d got hold of
the land crookedly (7)
18 Left switched on, is
for the big game (5)
19 He left her at the
apartment engrossed in (4) 20 As well as central heating,
getting in a new range (5) 21 News announcement
about sudden flooding (5) 22 Walked with a stick
in the outset (6)
23 Love, in short, and woo (5) 28 Marked “seen” (7)
30 Where cheese may be
served in a ship (2,5)
33 Say goodbye, snaffle
and go off with (4,5)
36 Feel, when the tail is
twisted, suffering (6)
38 It indicates a f-fight (5)
39 Said you burnt the
vegetable (5) 40 Deal with equipment (6)
42 Though different. What the mother and brother have in common (5)
43 Damages and the naughty
child looks on (7)
44 It indicates you have
running water (6)
46 Start repeating,
foolishly, “Look” (4)
49 Alma’s mother dropped
round, too (4)
51 Truly hard stone to cut (6) 53 The body or chassis
of the vehicle (7)
55 Duff gen I get on
sun burn (5)
59 Somehow force the
key into the chest (6)
60 Get off where there’s
sign of habitation (5)
61 A second wobble (5)
62 Believe to be cold
and terribly tired (6)
63 A caress for the
sponger’s victim (4,5)
65 Saw about two litres
had run out (7)
66 Rob leans out to grab
the fellows (7)
70 Photograph,
nevertheless (5) 71 Maintains, and one
shuts up about (6)
73 Do talk the English into (5) 75 Also distressed about
the second catch (5)
80 Vehicle registration for the head of Inland Revenue? (4)
82 A small flexible wire to hold
would be more sensible (5) 83 Gives it another whirl
when one comes back (7) 84 Nonsense campaign
by the left (6)
85 Job you don’t have to
be on your feet for? (6)
86 Solving, put in an unusual
word for “delight” (7)
87 Attacking for not
grounding (7,3)
DOWN 1
Grab but can’t free mum trapped (6)
2 A funny-sounding
word for “inform” (8)
3 Don’t allow, for instance,
back on the boat (5)
4 Looping the loop, is
very good (3-4)
5 Is not lying. It remains
in force (6) 6 What’s studied for a
while at Hogwarts? (5)
7 I had laid less out for
frames for the pictures (6) 8 Clears off, carrying the laptop, when there are visitors (7)
9 Another member of
the staff: old (6-4)
10 Why the American ace
is stunting outside (5)
11 The quartet of ours,
trained by me (8)
12 A picture showing
capsized vessels (4)
24 Are centred round a clergyman and a love entanglement (7)
25 The middle man: Arthur (5) 26 Getting ahead, or smothered by the dwarf runner (7)
27 With a depression coming up in, even prepared to risk it (7)
29 Indicate it’s sharp (5)
31 Mean to a girl (5)
32 Someone you can rely
on to surprise (4)
34 The pink room, monsieur
is accommodated in (6)
35 Run with panache (4) 37 Ceases to like and
doesn’t stay with (4,3)
41 Prisoner in an awful
pit in a grotto (7)
45 Someone cleaning
a ring (6)
47 The singer, too, goes out
to have a smoke (7)
48 The wine does spoil,
sadly, laid up (7)
50 See who’s knocky at the
door, but be careful (7)
52 Crossing out the last
half, endorse (4)
54 Long and cold, say
it’s wonderful (5)
56 Cook is a funny
girl; a novice (5)
57 A short distance
from the stage (4)
58 Meagre and small,
is unable to (5)
60 Matt is lethargic (10)
64 The relations, in total confusion, persuade to (4,4)
67 A confounded love bird! (8) 68 I’d contrived to put the odd
spurt on, to unsettle (7)
69 “Dogs are best off,” the
lamebrain put in (7)
72 Shoot right in the lip (6) 74 Career damaged by
some leaks (6)
76 Attacks for the fifty pounds
she is carrying (6)
77 Knowing unusual
western area (5)
78 It’s hard to sharpen
knives (5)
79 Before the trial opens, the maid is forced to confess (5)
81 A cold hand grabs
the tart (4)