GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS 13
Available for thieves who smash jewellery windows? (2,3,5)
14 Funny-looking creature getting the Spanish in an awful panic (7)
15 List the time to give
the medication (6)
16 Pay for and make
your home in (6)
17 Storing a malformed
pine barrel outside (7)
18 Has she nothing
to exist for? (5)
19 A giant? That’s hard
to believe (4)
20 Not having had experience
of feeling envious? (5)
21 Bang on with a coin (5)
22 To that end, getting
gangways for the boats (6) 23 Game to produce
a replica (5)
28 Sam’s driven crazy by
the woman: a beauty (7) 30 To a doctor, anything
that’s drinkable (7)
33 When, without doubt,
you’ll find out (9)
36 Show indignation
like a wife, say (6) 38 Tear out the page
before for father (5)
39 Pronounce fit (5)
40 Give the impression
they won’t work (6)
42 Shut up in the
card room! (5)
43 Introduce here (7)
44 Had hurled at and
stumped (6)
46 Learn it’s something really
worth discovering (4)
49 Had left the key
with one (4)
51 They’re big birds, an
inset shows (6)
53 Perturbed by, shook (7)
55 Set off the day
after, again (5)
59 The attitude in ascent
is different (6)
60 Climb up and it will tell you
if the diet’s working (5)
61 Though annoyed by,
did all one could (5)
62 Disturbed by, made
to leave (3,3)
63 Sought for and made a
run, then got dismissed (9) 65 Claimed, when having a legal wrangle with the editor (7) 66 Have an argument with
stupid silly point (7)
70 Slowly advanced –
there’s nothing to it (5) 71 Stress it’s a c-coin (6) 73 From the nursery,
like to write (5)
75 As usual, it’s in a pot
in the kitchen (5)
80 Go back for crackers (4) 82 Claims one has in
one’s possession (5)
83 The eradication will
take time, certainly (7) 84 Lives for the day – a
well-known author (6) 85 The waste material,
melt down again (6)
86 Was seen to have
quoted verbally (7)
87 Made trouble about the rain-damaged case I’d found inside (6,4)
DOWN
1 Would seem to have
turned dad against fruit (6) 2 No good if the car has
no storage space (8)
3 Say yes, it’s about
time to ring (5)
4 Have the man top
up the kitty (7)
5 A gun poking right
through behind you (6)
6 Country it’s an offence
for dad to enter (5)
7 See the figure put
in is not great (6)
8 He performs an act with
a wild boar in it (7)
9 Not wanting to, being
off-colour (10)
10 Not that cavity at the
base of the molar (5)
11 Pinch from an
untouchable (8)
12 One English town or
a lot of them (4)
24 Yellow is smart,
you know (7)
25 Figure the girl’s gone
back north (5)
26 Water and electricity (7) 27 Are wrong to give to
children, one deduces (7) 29 Protest month (5)
31 Assesses the speeds (5) 32 Botch the dish (4)
34 What made the drunk
see a ghost? (6)
35 Dash! It shows the
ground’s marshy (4)
37 Notice many diners are
QUICK ACROSS
13 Available (2,3,5)
14 Bird (7)
15 Medication (6)
16 Fix (6)
17 Retaining (7)
18 Fruit (5)
19 Lofty (4)
20 Inexperienced (5)
21 Unit of weight (5)
22 Vagrants (6)
23 Tally (5)
28 Beauty (7)
30 Drink (7)
33 Learn (9)
36 Restraint (6)
38 Father (5)
39 Noise (5)
40 Hit (6)
42 Card game (5)
43 Here (7)
44 Hurled (6)
46 Discover (4)
49 Departed (4)
51 Giants (6)
53 Shook (7)
55 Set (5)
59 Attitude (6)
60 Climb (5)
61 Aggravated (5)
62 Inconvenienced (3,3) 63 Searched (9)
65 Claimed (7)
66 Argument (7)
70 Slowly (5)
71 Stress (6)
73 Tree (5)
75 Usual (5)
80 Attempt (4)
82 Grips (5)
83 Eradication (7)
84 Lives (6)
85 Waste (6)
86 Seen (7)
87 Made a fuss (6,4)
about to order (7)
41 Will provide you with the
picture, you think (7)
45 On the subject of the
party, go too far (6)
47 Do exercises for a while (7) 48 Let out mad, catches
and fights (7)
50 Dismissed, to one’s fury
and great resentment (7) 52 “Parsimonious” is
getting warm (4)
54 In an instant, starts tearing
up the certificate (5)
56 Act, perhaps, but with
lack of certainty (5)
57 By the water is a large
aquatic animal (4)
58 Are too indulgent
with? Rot! (5)
60 Amazed to find there’s
no address (10)
64 Just as you begin
to attack (3,5)
67 Game for a girl (8)
68 Slump down. Seem bothered about the news (7)
69 Having been terribly
healthy will help (7)
72 Pact you negotiate at
the end of May (6)
DOWN
1 Seem (6)
2 Futile (8)
3 Assent (5)
4 Kitty (7)
5 Behind (6)
6 Country (5)
7 Minor (6)
8 Performer (7)
9 Unwilling (10)
10 Different (5)
11 Intangible (8)
12 Transaction (4)
24 Cowardly (7)
25 Number (5)
26 Air (7)
27 Deduces (7)
29 Month (5)
31 Assesses (5)
32 Mess (4)
34 Ghost (6)
35 Hurry (4)
37 Notice (7)
41 Think (7)
45 Exaggerate (6)
47 Expand (7)
48 Fights (7)
50 Resentment (7)
52 Stingy (4)
54 Instant (5)
56 Uncertainty (5)
57 Stamp (4)
58 Ruin (5)
60 Dumbfounded (10) 64 Attack (3,5)
67 Tolerance (8)
68 Tidings (7)
69 Be helpful (7)
72 Pact (6)
74 Scuttle (6)
76 Visit (4,2)
77 Impudence (5)
78 Rage (5)
79 Affixed (5)
81 Bonds (4) 74 Scuttle off to get a
second hot dish (6)
76 The sick who are up can
go round to visit (4,2)
77 The nerve – some face! (5) 78 The man in the field (5)
79 Also said one was
not innumerate (5)
81 Binds when I get
upset about (4)