GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
12 Winning easily (7,4) 13 Colour (6)
14 Puts off (6)
16 Move (4)
17 Not working (6,3) 18 Boat (5) 19 Orchestra (4) 20 Arrest (9) 22 Precipitous (5) 23 Cake (5,4) 27 Remote (7) 30 Instant (6) 31 Medication (4)
32 Tree (5)
35 Mix (4)
36 Gave (7) 38 Platform (4) 39 Dexterity (7)
42 Muse (6) 45 Addition (5)
46 Piece (7)
47 Food (4) 48 Accompanying (4) 50 Comforted (7) 52 Scoundrel (5) 54 Resolve (6) 56 Found out (7) 57 Bench (4) 59 Humdrum (7) 61 Team member (4) 64 Irritated (5)
66 Bird cry (4) 67 Smoked fish (6) 69 Great (7)
72 Hang on! (4,1,4) 73 Pictures (5)
74 Rest (9) 79 Measures (4) 81 Month (5) 82 Continued (4,5)
83 Cut (4)
85 Go out (6)
86 Use (6) 87 Sounding genuine (7,4)
DOWN
1 Fine (4)
2 Seem (6)
3 Grasp (6) 4 Distributing (7) 5 Colour (5) 6 Natural (10)
7 Tone of voice (5) 8 Thriving (5,4) 9 Hostile (7) 10 Counterfoil (4) 11 Male name (8) 15 Courage (6) 21 Stage (5)
24 Very rich (7) 25 Wolfed (6)
26 Jump (6)
28 Fed up (5) 29 Greeting (3) 33 Crossly (7) 34 Criticised (6) 37 Ventured (5)
40 Dog (5)
41 Rank (7)
43 Green (5) 44 Shoots (6) 46 Narrow piece (5) 49 Gather (7)
51 Hits (6) 53 Bootlick (6)
55 Rope (5)
58 Being successful (6,4) 60 Trick (3)
62 Class (5) 63 Anxious (9) 65 Game (8) 68 Putting icing on (6) 70 Imprinted (7)
71 Get even (7) 75 Totting up (6) 76 Invalidate (6) 77 Tokens (5) 78 Material (5)
80 Work (4)
84 Cut (4)
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
12 Winning easily and going to the stable joyously (7,4) 13 Colour when one is caught in wrongdoing (6) 14 Puts off many by giving a wrong steer to (6) 16 Move as far out as you can go (4) 17 Disgusted to find it’s not working (6,3)
18 Beat hollow in, showing craft (5)
19 Not allowed to hear the musicians (4) 20 Understand you’ll arrest (9) 22 Hard to cycle up, about a quarter walk (5) 23 Continental bread and a cake (5,4)
27 Far from friendly (7)
30 In a word, in France people have time (6)
31 On the page “Afflicted with” there’s “Treatment for” (4)
32 Tree on a quiet country road (5)
35 Mix together in the can (4) 36 Gave, you assume, the wrong date to (7)
38 The one in blue, going back to the platform (4) 39 Not much point in showing dexterity (7) 42 Muse about the figure the owner laid out (6) 45 In addition, he has transport (5)
46 The bit where the federal agents set about (7) 47 Forage about for food (4) 48 Not lacking humour (hard, that!) (4) 50 Comforted the one knocked down outside (7) 52 A scoundrel and a profligate in possession of a key (5) 54 Resolve to be, with the retiring editor, cold (6) 56 Relied on right through, one found out (7) 57 Make for the seat (4) 59 Humdrum. It’s so different in the Capri resort (7) 61 Home team member (4) 64 Had a go at, which irritated one (5) 66 Sound make by a bird that’s very funny (4)
67 Is it smoked in bed? (6) 69 In the foolish teens, it’s great (7)
72 Hang on! It’s only a little mark! (4,1,4) 73 Stretches back to get the pictures (5)
74 The others stay – embarrassed to return (9) 79 Supports the measures (4) 81 An unsuitable surname for May? (5)
82 Had continued – to act as leader? (4,5)
83 Cut the string – has got knotted (4)
85 Go out and you light a match (6)
86 Use, to get me back, a trick (6) 87 Sounding genuine on the telephone? (7,4)
DOWN
1 Try to do somersaults
– not bad (4)
2 It would seem the father raised fruit (6) 3 Grasp only a very little (6) 4 Has arranged to call on for the distribution (7) 5 A coloured girl? (5)
6 Not disturbed emotionally by, as would be natural (10) 7 Tone of voice used for a sales talk? (5) 8 Thriving, being a successful cheat (5,4) 9 Antagonistic, these days, to poetry (7)
10 Put out to see the counterfoil (4)
11 He’s concealing nothing and taking nothing back (8) 15 A fragile courage (6) 21 Quietly turning it on at this stage (5) 24 Working a pastry that’s very rich (7)
25 Ate and ran (6) 26 Surprise with, making jump (6)
28 Fed up with it, changed the colour (5)
29 Greet the fellow, standing up (3) 33 Crossly, if any silly girl interrupts (7) 34 Criticised for having modernized the thatched roof? (6) 37 Ventured to pop round again (5)
40 After an hour undo, to free the dog (5) 41 No particular rank (7) 43 Not a lime tree! (5)
44 Shoots produced by plants (6) 46 Remove the paint from just a narrow piece (5) 49 Hard to starve out, we gather (7) 51 Administers corporal punishment to many hooligans (6)
53 Note the lover scribbled, to show humility (6) 55 Taxi half a mile to get the rope (5)
58 Being successful in getting children to behave (6,4) 60 Trick to make study (3)
62 I left it in a bag in class (5) 63 Anxious to be involved in (9)
65 Let get in the way of the game (8) 68 Decorating a cake that’s hot (6)
70 Gave the impression one had put one’s foot down firmly (7)
71 Get back on the green roughly round a quarter to five (7) 75 Saying also in the summing up (6) 76 To invalidate the two points, get a move on (6) 77 Tokens that will get you snacks (5) 78 Didn’t stand out at the draper’s (5)
80 A great deal upset, I went in to work (4) 84 Cut the cakes up (4)