GIANT CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

13 Adopt role at home to share (4,4,2) 14 Fit pal sadly beginning to lag? It’s a drawback (7) 15 Scene in English pub placed first (6) 16 Ring group of friends? (6) 17 Burst out laughing with quip at college (5,2) 18 One in boat more boisterous with inspector gone (5) 19 Conflict with pounds spent as ready money (4) 20 Husband with old boy, boy giving up ordinary pastime (5) 21 What a tourist might need I’d guess if confused after leaving ship (5) 22 Make a note of piece of music (6) 23 Disreputable men, say, drunk with no end of gin (5) 28 General’s first oddly simple and brief view (7) 30 Workplace close to counter for policeman (7) 33 Time arranged to probe source of protein in chicken, say (5,4) 36 Party put back in gallery until now (2,4) 38 Place supported by Kelvin supplying cheap wine (5) 39 Permit given by a large base (5) 40 Al and Rob struggle around middle of January for work (6) 42 Female TV cook’s succulent fruit (5) 43 Bishop sure to be upset about question that’s abrupt (7) 44 Singer has to show fear losing money (6) 46 Merriment found in jingle evidently (4) 49 Prince with love for sign of virtue? (4) 51 Dismiss woman without day away from work (3,3) 53 Scattered blue bits I removed in reaped field (7) 55 Doubt actually seen with appeal vanishing on railway (5) 59 Saying from part of body behind police in retrospect (6) 60 Tell off companion with limited notion (5) 61 Some sunbathers in general get to burn (5) 62 Pretentious sort embroidered prose about university (6) 63 This team in ground lacking sun has miserable period (1,4,4) 65 Push back rules formulated about exercise on reflection (7) 66 Reduce spread of thin gel (7) 70 Kind about to enter place for retirement (5) 71 Problem with largely ridiculous heading (6) 73 Location nearly approved for secret agent (5) 75 Follow where drivers race? (5) 80 Cook in revolutionary France (4) 82 Foot lever stopped a lorry in part (5) 83 Food cooked in cruise right away (7) 84 Break to go round heart of port in holiday destination (6) 85 Agree with chapter about scoundrel (6) 86 Fellow recalled staggering bout surely (2,5) 87 Retail assistant works with a help curiously (4,6)

DOWN

1 A pride, maybe, in company in gambling venue (6) 2 Tree, it’s said, overlooking poor seaside idler (5,3) 3 Vital resource we traded (not half) in exchange (5) 4 Snobbish soprano standing to acquire food (5-2) 5 How one could describe a glove available? (2,4) 6 Small freshwater fish has pointed feature (5) 7 Lethargy increasing in troubled sort (6) 8 Top British lyricist shows whimsy (7) 9 Female takes down question about method in plant exhibition (6,4) 10 Slight pair avoiding exposure get to drink loudly (5) 11 Reserve best summer refreshment? (3,5) 12 Additional fruit without marks (4) 24 Gauge in yard, maybe (7) 25 Advantage when prepared (5) 26 Select tool on display? (4,3) 27 Laboured list revised by tense journalist (7) 29 Unrestrained female U.S. writer with energy (5) 31 Start to find damage in fine silk (5) 32 Hurdle for students formerly in the morning (4) 34 Penny entering island yard is jaunty (6) 35 Confused impression made by publisher’s comments mostly (4) 37 Broadcast left Gatwick, say (7) 41 What a tattoo might provide for top corporate figures (3,4) 45 Graduate with rising command in staged art form? (6) 47 Weather beginning to lift in Channel Islands before end of game (7) 48 Australian paper in dispute (2,5) 50 A route abroad to savour finally for flight professional (7) 52 Fighter with impudent talk gets to go wild (4) 54 Extra gain from Irish singer snubbed by American (5) 56 Awaken moorland bird with no end of fluttering (5) 57 Hope rose after vacation in this place (4) 58 First of plants put in earth showing damage (5) 60 Code on menu after circulation gets to become detached (4,6) 64 Extraordinarily fine city featuring in paper really (2,6) 67 Tough place that’s cramped, we hear, for aggressive promotion (4,4) 68 Pair gets to avoid introduction (7) 69 Old writer engaged in exhibition in an unspecified way (7) 72 Desert plant caught by these people south of California (6) 74 Fussy priest is sadly lacking in substance (6) 76 Vehicle permitted to turn in set of companies (6) 77 Feature of a church excited priest no end (5) 78 Amusing women with simple song bar introduction (5) 79 Fight unchecked among extremists in Bengal (5) 81 Outlaw’s head covering (4)