GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
12 Recover (4,7)
13 Burned (6)
14 Wave (6)
16 Applaud (4)
17 Dog (9)
18 Lobs (5)
19 Stop! (4)
20 Comedy (9)
22 Leading (5)
23 Stress (4,5)
27 Gather (7)
30 Breakfast food (6)
31 Ponder (4)
32 Accepted (5)
35 Fit (4)
36 Gem (7)
38 Steal (4)
39 Completely (7)
42 Cooks (6)
45 Is successful (5)
46 Give back (7)
47 Puts away (4)
48 Fight (4)
50 Searches (7)
52 Female name (5)
54 Garment (1-5)
56 Told (7)
57 Bread (4)
59 Bird (7)
61 Cross (4)
64 Tree (5)
66 Spinster (4)
67 Bang (6)
69 Give (7)
72 Unimportant (5-4)
73 Fish (5)
74 Big (4-5)
79 Support (4)
81 Imitation (5)
82 Lecture (7-2)
83 Lofty (4)
85 Scratch (6)
86 Clever (6)
87 Stops (4,2,3,2)
DOWN
1 Stupid (4)
2 Mistake (4-2)
3 Craving (6)
4 Get in touch (7)
5 And yet (5)
6 Slump (10)
7 Ace (5)
8 Wise (9)
9 Lined up (7)
10 Unhurried (4)
11 Set off (8)
15 Eludes (6)
21 Imprecise (5)
24 Seepage (7)
25 Mood (6)
26 Savours (6)
28 House (5)
29 Agree (3)
33 Mad (7)
34 Jiffy (6)
37 Quantities (5)
40 Afterwards (5)
41 Well-known (7)
43 Instant (5)
44 Allow (6)
46 Is classed (5)
49 Material (7)
51 Complain (6)
53 Steps (6)
55 Hordes (5)
58 Definitely (3,7)
60 Strife (3)
62 Mountains (5)
63 Sack (9)
65 Rhyme (8)
68 Preserve (6)
70 Arrested (7)
71 Repel (7)
75 Moans (6)
76 Mean (6)
77 Centre (5)
78 Lacking (5)
80 One’s best (4)
84 Former (4)
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
12 Recover when you manage to extricate from (4,7)
13 Burned by water – very, very hot (6)
14 It doesn’t make a rough sea smooth! (6)
16 Thunderous applause? (4)
17 He gets back the dog (9)
18 Snacks in baskets (5)
19 Question a command to stop (4)
20 Having had a hit, stay with comedy (9)
22 Ahead of the others from the start (5)
23 Leave in no doubt that you will filter (4,5)
27 Do even alter, you gather (7)
30 Giving us lime squash for breakfast (6)
31 Think it’s in the Hebrides (4)
32 Having accepted, was escorted to (5)
35 Fit the shaft (4)
36 Not a heart of ice! (7)
38 Pinch the name (4)
39 Completely agree to, at first (7)
42 With the players on board the vessel, it travels (6)
45 Does the trick and one gets the job (5)
46 Repair and give back to (7)
47 Puts away in the meat safe (4)
48 Hard to take the top off – it’s a fight (4)
50 Tries to find, to tease the rivals about (7)
52 Plus backing, in a maiden (5)
54 Non-u wear? (1-5)
56 One of the family told me (7)
57 Abbreviation for “Large”, used of a head (4)
59 Put away, for the bird (7)
61 Cross, therefore, again (4)
64 Not a prettysounding tree (5)
66 “Marital status”, fail to catch (4)
67 News you get a bang out of telling? (6)
69 Hand over to, for now (7)
72 The short spell in prison is unimportant (5-4)
73 Be too tired to fly fish! (5)
74 Not having one of the commoner dimensions? (4-5)
79 Favouring, quietly give support to (4)
81 Spread that’s not the real thing (5)
82 A lecture for fraternizing with (7-2)
83 A giant? That’s hard to believe (4)
85 Trouble from scratch (6)
86 Having a road off it is clever (6)
87 Stops – the books flopping on the shelf? (4,2,3,2)
DOWN
1 A blunt “slow-witted” (4)
2 A boob from the backward students (4-2)
3 This time, put the R in “craving” (6)
4 Do have discrimination when you get in touch (7)
5 On the other hand, it’s no loss (5)
6 Unhappiness caused by a slump? (10)
7 The master making a joke (5)
8 Prepared to be counseled by others, which is wise (9)
9 Lined up to be given first aid (7)
10 That’s what “adagio” means, stupid! (4)
11 Roughly note the date, about to set off (8)
15 Steers clear of, because there’s a chasm in (6)
21 “Insecure” is imprecise (5)
24 What the disclosure of current information is due to? (7)
25 A funny mood? (6)
26 Is redolent of, when one kisses (6)
28 Five forty-nine. Late start from home (5)
29 Agree and will back, you assume (3)
33 Wary, I scuttle inside. He is mad (7)
34 Just a jiffy, mother. The net’s tangled (6)
37 Suffices to hold small quantities (5)
40 Afterwards retaliated, half crazed (5)
41 Famous, unlike the average seaman (7)
43 Tire out many in a short time (5)
44 Allow to be in pain (6)
46 Can be classified as taxes (5)
49 Tell you you’re wonderful and stuff! (7)
51 Game to make a complaint about (6)
53 As it’s rattling right through the flight (6)
55 Lots and lots of targets for parasites (5)
58 Definitely favouring, convinced by (3,7)
60 Fight for the greenback (3)
62 Where to go shooting in the mountains (5)
63 The lad is wrong about the girl getting the sack (9)
65 For “green”, strain to get a rhyme (8)
68 How to keep from going off is a dilemma (6)
70 Having been arrested, was prevented from (7)
71 Put off when, on the day, there is wind (7)
75 Is unhappy about the odd snag, or setback, in (6)
76 Mean, which is smart, to look after (6)
77 A centre but not a club (5)
78 Lacking, which is a
disadvantage (5)
80 Said to look your best (4)
84 The former is a bad timekeeper (4)