CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

12 Producing eggs that are thrown away is devastating (6,5) 13 Find ex CO has been taken back into (6) 14 Are training child to think logically (6) 16 Not that it’s terribly hard to penetrate (4) 17 Sober sailors intent on getting drunk (9) 18 In old age doddery and without a home (5) 19 Act making a comeback, too (4) 20 Campaign for which someone got a reward from the boss? (9) 22 Half the allocation is distributed to a pub (5) 23 Explained thoroughly what the demister did (4,5) 27 Cases of the shakes (7) 30 And in a little becomes an outlaw (6) 31 Hadn’t paid for ring with which to get married (4) 32 He wanders right across (5) 35 He’s really missing Sally at this point (4) 36 With harbour close, give warning (7) 38 Doctor Good returns with IV solution (4) 39 Food of strange sort I have taken to (7) 42 Near time to go to press (6) 45 Including it in the levy (5) 46 After ‘79’ spread lie, ill-disposed towards (7) 47 Step on it and rip (4) 48 Excellent shot, do return (4) 50 On getting record back, relieved and happy (7) 52 Near devastated the interior: good farmland (5) 54 Turning it round is wearisome (6) 56 Longed for a happy ending and deserved it (7) 57 Leaves a lot of money (4) 59 At a meeting, records the time (7) 61 Speed with which a cat can clean itself (4) 64 Promise, as we are trimming the borders (5) 66 Black mark for risque material (4) 67 Quote from ‘62’ I got wrong (6) 69 And, left in, he had dealt with (7) 72 Took flight, you say. Fled outside (9) 73 A musical instrument. Loud musical instrument (5) 74 Saddened by the document and papers within (9) 79 One party giver or a whole lot (4) 81 In coat, swallowing a beer (5) 82 Freed — from the burden of having to collect? (9) 83 What she did when given a lift? (4) 85 Margaret has relations in this Chinese city (6) 86 Do well — very — in their group (6) 87 Hardly any worth insuring? (8,3)

DOWN

1 By day break, has to move fast (4) 2 In slim fitting, so lithe and supple (6) 3 Content of bag has them horrified (6) 4 Singer with nothing on accompanied by woodwind instrument (7) 5 Proper help is on the way (5) 6 Shortened to ‘undertook’ (10) 7 Fork out about fifty pounds — or close to (5) 8 To say it didn’t leak was justifiable (4,5) 9 Told to redo, turned scarlet (7) 10 And after an hour, give to (4) 11 Way to assess would be ‘non-extremist’ (8) 15 Number two for only a short time (6) 21 Our struggle to get two points does excite (5) 24 Prospect — or search for and find (7) 25 Boy’s name and age must be entered in licence (6) 26 With ‘That is the police outside,’ takes off (6) 28 Regards as potential witness (5) 29 Blame for as usual, upset (3) 33 With a member of the family, run into trouble (7) 34 Straight from the awful court (6) 37 Fear dead and see what the papers say (5) 40 Right back in a twinkling by express (5) 41 Reroutes and spoils drive (street is up) (7) 43 Free the sole to swim round in (5) 44 Really good rising salesman who went to pot (6) 46 ‘Put ’em on the payroll,’ said the American (5) 49 Don’t disturb ram inside, sleeping (7) 51 ‘Shut up’ and a fist brandished gets rid of (6) 53 How many the boxcar holds (6) 55 Peeved — angry about — I left (5) 58 An aquatic creature with wings? (10) 60 The deep note sounded (3) 62 Indian given time, imprisoned in island (5) 63 Prompt ‘Wrong time to let media into’ (9) 65 Concede that, accommodated in, we’d luxuriated (8) 68 The animals act strangely, let free (6) 70 Go to section of book that shows ‘Leakage’ (7) 71 Go back and reverse car into tree, stupidly (7) 75 In other organisation, dead keen (3-3) 76 Emphasise the rest must go off by ship (6) 77 Bad weather makes small cat run inside (5) 78 Avoid having to state the time (5) 80 A great deal upset, I went into work (4) 84 Spurned heartlessly, shot (4)