THE GIANT CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

13 Crazy person, though with a first-class mind (10) 14 Naughty Nigel, shut up! (The language!) (7) 15 Partnered with dad. Dire combination (6) 16 Fights and Conservative, getting in, fights back (6) 17 Your worry, or concern, as sentinel (7) 18 In short, pruning tree to let sun through (5) 19 In middle of course, expelling us (4) 20 Be poking bone through to tempt (5) 21 Back in bay, moor. It’s spacious (5) 22 Yell, making a racket outside again (6) 23 For royal in mess, it’s tough (5) 28 Seems like paper shredded up inside (7) 30 Begins to be upset when one gets into difficulties (7) 33 Crotchetiness that elicits a sickly smile? (3,6) 36 Secure and give the fellow a gun (6) 38 The nut and the bean: food for vegetarians (5) 39 Fielder gets a beer for catching ball (5) 40 A long way away and unapproachable (6) 42 New in team, playing, planned to (5) 43 Fashionable with teens. Ridiculous. Extreme (7) 44 Stand on top of wall to see animal (6) 46 As usual, he’s accompanied by Al (4) 49 The spigots, turned, spluttered (4) 51 Answer to ‘What’s that funny-shaped glass container?’ (6) 53 Wary, I creep inside. He is mad (7) 55 Someone who’s very dull — or dynamite (5) 59 They open for dinners but shut off after a jiffy (6) 60 The perfect spot. Delightful, but hard to get into (5) 61 In France, very small strand (5) 62 Anxious, requiring a father to assist (6) 63 Not all squashed together in a daze (6,3) 65 How voice from rear spoke, grimly? (7) 66 Something really good — with cheese? (7) 70 Avenue you never walk along? (5) 71 Go off at the salesman. Give vent to grievances (6) 73 Rule out penning male animal (5) 75 Hang about, not yet feathered? (5) 80 Leaves in a pot (4) 82 Come out from an opening in the deck (5) 83 Now, what can I get you for your birthday? (7) 84 Belt out again in a high voice (6) 85 Pop on pep? (6) 86 Plain? That’s being prejudiced (3,4) 87 Either ringing or calling on (5,5)

DOWN

1 The shopkeeper, Roger, turns key to enter (6) 2 Half of us somehow clamber after: climb clumsily (8) 3 Shame Jack has come to grief (5) 4 Love and foolishly buy (4,3) 5 Attending class and at one’s peak (2,4) 6 The male singer is very young, on the other hand (5) 7 While encrusting the entrance with gems (6) 8 A little bird. It’s seen wading in the water (7) 9 Live together and have one key between them (5,1,4) 10 Rate as one of the best players to conceal pressure (5) 11 Deny record mail foul-up (8) 12 Are performing right to the end (4) 24 Louvred cover that won’t open? (7) 25 He’s loud and thoroughly awful (5) 26 And getting involved in the muddle is folly (7) 27 Curtly but not bluntly (7) 29 Put on page fifty-one (5) 31 In an instant, certifying half to be forged (5) 32 Listens to what plumbers are discussing? (4) 34 Child at early age turned against poetry (6) 35 Having taken bad turn, survive (4) 37 What is 1+1, kid? (4,3) 41 Really big day. Rest, shattered, after (7) 45 How, in a word, you put weight on (6) 47 Drive, awfully scared, round bend (7) 48 Might the rest manoeuvre in, to get control? (7) 50 Be successful in the right quarter (7) 52 Having gravy with a large proportion of fatty ingredients (4) 54 Turn and at one point tilt over (5) 56 Lawbreaking runs riot in America (5) 57 One side split (4) 58 Having a shock is frightening (5) 60 Una’s dribbling at table. Disgusting (10) 64 Reporting on many past it physically (8) 67 Gooseberry you won’t want when you fancy a peach! (8) 68 Came out carrying the carved knife (7) 69 Maintain I sat out in the sun (7) 72 Do as before. Peer strangely at (6) 74 Go green. Converted at the very end (6) 76 Drawing the line at taking complete control (6) 77 Job hard for ‘19’ to hold (5) 78 Was informed. For European, difficult to accept (5) 79 Small gate, unusually, at performance venue (5) 81 Said ‘Well, call a cab’ (4)