GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS ON MONDAY
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
13 Support clubs, maybe, or do
likewise (6,4) 14 Group of people living together making new time for travel to work (7) 15 Shorten expression mostly for small
vessel (6) 16 Abrupt dude getting twitchy amid
some negativity principally (6) 17 A stubborn type carrying jar
endlessly in sealed container (7) 18 Raise a petty objection with English
actor forgetting final line (5) 19 Coffee lacking essential element is
behind schedule (4) 20 Danger encapsulated by chopper I
loaned (5) 21 Good young chap beginning to
enter clearing (5) 22 Sober woman imbibing alcoholic
spirit from the East (6) 23 Remain getting criticism (5) 28 Counterfeit document supporting
German theory’s conclusion (7) 30 Texan identity at the extremes
provoked concern (7) 33 Crete’s now cultivated vegetable (9) 36 Finish a phone call showing
inhibition (4-2) 38 Black entrance held back for
children (5) 39 Obdurate soprano gets theatrical
award (5) 40 Information given by base for
reception of a liquid? (6) 42 Nationalist in U.S. city is a
simpleton (5) 43 Frenchman amid delay recalled
military officer (7) 44 Foreigner vacated EU country avoiding port? That’s being economical (6) 46 Some tension in eminent figure (4) 49 Lodge in Buckinghamshire school,
we’re told (4) 51 Rotten, disorganised trip cut by
posh director (6) 53 Bakery item Englishman abroad
rejected for pickled herring (7) 55 Source of advice from a taxi
driver (5) 59 Sort of a corny thing an artist might
use (6) 60 Person’s first cloying or too fussy (5) 61 Something found out after covering
to a high degree dance music (5) 62 Temporarily dismiss ordinary
official (3,3) 63 Recently stolen kit etc after manufacture is something very much in demand (3,6) 65 Convert yearned to find a group of
parishes (7) 66 Dance is source of glee to a vet
possibly (7) 70 Adverse criticism taken by Yankee
that’s inept (5) 71 Bachelor I feel after conversion has
faith (6) 73 Celebrity given stick ultimately?
That’s harshly apparent (5) 75 Alternative to a satnav finally
restricted (5) 80 Sharply criticise social event (4) 82 Excuse first sign of terrible fold (5) 83 First-rate person caring for pets in
Tyneside showing ingenuousness (7) 84 Lots supplied in case of party (6) 85 Worry about backward
profession (6) 86 Church and clergyman finally
guaranteed to get blame (7) 87 Take out pounds in a financial
institution getting to fail (4,1,5)
DOWN
1 University with money probes
extraordinary love for a book (6) 2 3 First Entrance supplementing signs to of this company building port, perhaps, loosely cover (8) has
coil (5) 4 Rude lab requiring reform that’s
lasting (7) 5 Foolish dispute almost brewing (6) 6 Bob and Charlie linked to unusual
melee (5) 7 Male writer to appear in papers? It
gets to happen shortly (6)
8 Exit with parts switched as a
result (7) 9 British and European with method after a very limited time to work diligently (6,4) 10 Reprimand southern college lacking
in modernity (5)
11 Sporty sort of hat with Latin name
brought up (8) 12 Crooked tendency (4) 24 Love to penetrate plastic container
showing comic drawing (7)
25 Journey overlooking Spain is
nonsense (5) 26 Bad lie broadcast about Germany’s leader? It’s an important matter (3,4) 27 Lee and Vic nervously go round front
of hire car, say (7)
29 Approval given by a Greek character
for African ruminant (5) 31 Knotted loop shortly raised on front
of eiderdown (5)
32 Job found in spot as known (4) 34 Wretched sailor first to clamber into
plane (6) 35 Dull party with curry on a regular
basis (4) 37 Joke about note on course showing
a passage (7)
41 Wild dream shown by supporter, say, when excited about tournament’s finale (7) 45 Become more acceptable to Greek
now surprisingly holding ring (4,2) 47 Leafy vegetable in chap’s stew (7) 48 Grid now altered to show text (7) 50 Hard work importing exotic rum
produces confusion (7)
52 Easy thing first off to get small
measure (4) 54 Inept person is somewhat more solid
on reflection (5) 56 What a personal trainer might say in
suit (5) 57 Part of a car kept by twenty
revellers (4) 58 Liberal probing form of care? That’s evident (5) 60 Pastor with testimonial gets priority (10) 64 Pay attention with opinion given by ambassador on journalist (4,4) 67 Female in shimmering heat only without article improvised (2,3,3) 68 Period of posing by a model in session (7) 69 Criminal learns about a weapons factory (7) 72 Supporter getting dismissed has to move in different directions (3,3) 74 Hear about object that’s fashionable (6) 76 Wait on a tense nurse (6) 77 Son left for football, maybe (5) 78 Bank note I have shortly found in France (5) 79 U.S. singer limited thing that’s pointedly offensive (5) 81 A thing to store honey is slightly
open (4)