CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
13 Truth as to why girl will never win beauty competition? (5,5) 14 Plant he embedded in loosened earth (7) 15 Favouring a healthy yield (6) 16 ‘Small and Large’ Funny title (6) 17 Dampen so it squelches when people grab (7) 18 Miners, first off, went berserk. Had rebelled (5) 19 No sound you recognise (4) 20 Proposed to — was destined for (5) 21 Had looked, all round, very young (5) 22 Left, by break-up, sad, I’m gloomy (6) 23 Observe what could be key being inserted (5) 28 People at large enjoy it (7) 30 Pardon me (nasty hiccup) (7) 33 Occupants resist changing facade of home (9) 36 After move, time to plan spending carefully (6) 38 Less ruddy subdued: real transformation (5) 39 Plump for a sandwich and drinks for everyone (5) 40 Admitting again that it’s a hazard (6) 42 My own daughter returned the material (5) 43 Tune played in, had been obsessed by (7) 44 A dreadful bunch of wets? (6) 46 Monsieur has ordered puree (4) 49 Why it’s hard to see where motorway joins street (4) 51 Prohibition is hard to get rid of (6) 53 My word, that does show potential! (7) 55 Note at end: loud note from trumpet? (5) 59 Rejects incentives to collect a point (6) 60 Scowl at Algerians more than half drunk (5) 61 Bird — a duck inside — goes off (5) 62 Somehow lose two keys to get into the houses (6) 63 Leading artist, upper-class (3,6) 65 Bet the fellow a pound, say (7) 66 Covering in whipped cream, it’s red (7) 70 ’As a meal and warms up (5) 71 Fires a number into the vessels (6) 73 Bolt hole, try to cover (5) 75 Review badly and that’s a blow (5) 80 Brother, that is a cheese! (4) 82 In which vox populi airs its views? (5) 83 Tell to crack core to get nut out (7) 84 Bat making a din (6) 85 How greatly plaster is needed for blister on foot? (6) 86 Are upset, of course, by the elimination (7) 87 Think it’s premeditated? (10)
DOWN 1 Pal ordered dessert after fish (6) 2 Very little money as tip. Tossed a cent. Ridiculous (8) 3 More behind later? (5) 4 Run an illegal activity with a retired salesman (7) 5 Aim to take Paris trip at end of June (6) 6 A little e in ‘pale’ (5) 7 Didn’t allow the musicians to be heard (6) 8 Love, child, is her undoing (7) 9 Urge a boss to forge on (5,5) 10 Something that scratches, from small tree (5) 11 Does it teeter on a plate at the tea table? (4,4) 12 Where people swim, as I do, on lake (4) 24 Move to another scene: girl with weapon (7) 25 Kick hard against the cubicle (5) 26 Tended right through to be erudite (7) 27 Bird snapped beside another bird (7) 29 Way out, about to guard (5) 31 Not having a meal. Only half a fruit (5) 32 Giving thanks right after end of meal (4) 34 Pairs dancing new twist (6) 35 Hurry up with that old light! (4) 37 Good issue, showing sparkle and brilliance (7) 41 Saw through and — strange — felt pity for (7) 45 Is a cleaner? Used to be, before she got the chop (6) 47 Say lamb stew is awful (7) 48 After fleeing, soldier is caught climbing aboard ship (7) 50 Get better when I move the pair into (7) 52 Pretend to mum, getting mum upset (4) 54 Animal, old and in some trouble (5) 56 Having set off to join the Navy, is back (5) 57 What there’s a lot of, in timberyard? (4) 58 Obvious it has been omitted from article mistakenly (5) 60 Does it? Should I dye my hair, brain? (4,6) 64 Did harbour there, having vacillated (8) 67 Mad, rue getting botched treatment (8) 68 Small lad can get upset by malicious talk (7) 69 Among those I dispersed, a number are aggressive (7) 72 The vegetable, puts chopped or grated, inside (6) 74 They bay. Hard sound to reproduce (6) 76 Deceives and gets caught by ‘70’ (6) 77 Large, yaps, wildly outside as it romps (5) 78 Longed for cold in the head to dissipate (5) 79 From three, be with the family (5) 81 ‘Nonsense’, I interposed. ‘It’s insurgency’ (4)