THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Not a really rough sea, which is to the good (4,2,4) 14 Cor, mistake! One R in ‘warbler’ (7) 15 Completely moth-eaten, say (6) 16 Fooled into taking sleigh onto major road (6) 17 Were among the old mistreated and let down (7) 18 Round top of veranda, rambling rose rambles (5) 19 Female, am English and celebrity (4) 20 Remember that there’s a bed inside (5) 21 So do go out to meet women in clubs (5) 22 Tell, again, the convoluted tale (6) 23 A hovel, child. It’s unfit for human habitation (5) 28 Hurrah! As we hope, mends hole in heart (7) 30 Fundamentally, hate abstract painting (2,5) 33 Having got to stage two, it’s unintelligible (6,3) 36 Small item of furniture. Not wobbly (6) 38 Shattered, heartbroken, provide therapy (5) 39 Identify the soft material (5) 40 Are in disarray by second over and that’s why (6) 42 Abbreviation for ‘circuit malfunction’ (5) 43 Plaited hairs — it’s curly (7) 44 Car having crashed, is in bed, propped up (6) 46 Ponder over getting key cut (4) 49 Picture number 101 is back to front (4) 51 The nice one was removed from there (6) 53 Try to tote somehow, inside, staggering (7) 55 Regards as potential wives (5) 59 With strange bait, caught a number in the sea (6) 60 To tantalise, mentioned drinks (5) 61 Dish is not solid silver (5) 62 Disembarked and was guided round (6) 63 Not one fitting into the round hole, even (3,6) 65 What made punter’s heart go pitapat? (7) 66 Allows through. Mist has dispersed (7) 70 Stop at the kiosk (5) 71 Well-known fellow. A doctor and American (6) 73 A rush after spring half term (5) 75 Bad weather for most. Torrential rain coming through (5) 80 Lincoln at fifty was a murder victim (4) 82 What it is one’s wont to wear (5) 83 Seek, when mum flies into rage (7) 84 Vegetables, and so on, stirred round in stew (6) 85 Nonsense, doctor. Evil must be destroyed (6) 86 Tear I am to mend in clothing (7) 87 Pleasant addition to one’s acquaintances. That’s good news (4,2,4)
DOWN
1 Fuel is wrong. Forcing it in is useless (6) 2 Lit up, prepared to carry a weapon (8) 3 A sighed, audible, line spoken by actors (5) 4 Sympathise with and grope about to help find (4,3) 5 Ran, with a cry of pain. Ran outside (6) 6 Scratch with two crosses (5) 7 British command at the frontier (6) 8 Whichever girl storms in crossly (7) 9 Dick and Tommy look at (7,3) 10 Was accommodated in a hotel teeming with (5) 11 Leave one mystified, darn it! (8) 12 Fruit that’s not quite round (4) 24 For lag, only comfort (7) 25 He had admitted we hacked (5) 26 Convinced I am in some kind of trance (7) 27 Associate with whom business dream is shattered (7) 29 Something wrong with the connection? (5) 31 Time and time again, inside there’s a little chirp (5) 32 Right off, Pat is fascinated by (4) 34 Fighting is rife, having broken out on street (6) 35 Just one among a lot (4) 37 Toff endowing the local with tone of a kind (7) 41 I get a cut on making the sale (7) 45 Collapsed right in when cut (6) 47 Pleased with oneself for having championed (5-2) 48 Arrive and enter animal to vie against (7) 50 It’s a garland of flowers, little man (7) 52 Bird that can talk? (4) 54 I got rid of it, dear. Arranged swap (5) 56 Pull roughly from, making point break (5) 57 Bought from timber merchant, it’s a bargain (4) 58 Quick to solve clue ‘Armada’ (5) 60 Old dear flounders, bather swims to grab (10) 64 It’s the egotism in me, darling (4-4) 67 I reckon on freeing the animals trapped (8) 68 Bottle as opposed to a tin, for a change (7) 69 Time to do some limbering exercises (7) 72 Does work right through to get fixed (6) 74 In Spain, developed a number of flat areas (6) 76 Haphazard reanimation of nearly all dormant (6) 77 First cold, then hot. Sick with feverish ailment (5) 78 Strike, but the time’s wrong (5) 79 Also standing by to fence the stolen goods (5) 81 Not only dogwood has it! (4)