GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 12

Recover when you manage to extricate from (4,7)

13 Burned by water –

very, very hot (6)

14 It doesn’t make a rough

sea smooth! (6)

16 Thunderous applause? (4)

17 He gets back the dog (9)

18 Snacks in baskets (5)

19 Question a command

to stop (4)

20 Having had a hit, stay

with comedy (9)

22 Ahead of the others

from the start (5)

23 Leave in no doubt that

you will filter (4,5)

27 Do even alter, you

gather (7)

30 Giving us lime squash

for breakfast (6)

31 Think it’s in the

Hebrides (4)

32 Having accepted,

was escorted to (5)

35 Fit the shaft (4)

36 Not a heart of ice! (7)

38 Pinch the name (4)

39 Completely agree

to, at first (7) 42 With the players on board

the vessel, it travels (6)

45 Does the trick and

one gets the job (5)

46 Repair and give back to (7)

47 Puts away in the

meat safe (4)

48 Hard to take the top

off – it’s a fight (4)

50 Tries to find, to tease

the rivals about (7)

52 Plus backing, in

a maiden (5)

54 Non-U wear? (1-5)

56 One of the family

told me (7)

57 Abbreviation for “Large”,

used of a head (4)

59 Put away, for the bird (7)

61 Cross, therefore, again (4)

64 Not a pretty

sounding tree (5)

66 “Marital status”,

fail to catch (4)

67 News you get a bang

out of telling? (6)

69 Hand over to, for now (7)

72 The short spell in prison

is unimportant (5-4)

73 Be too tired to fly fish! (5)

74 Not having one of the commoner dimensions? (4-5)

79 Favouring, quietly

give support to (4)

81 Spread that’s not

the real thing (5)

82 A lecture for fraternizing

with (7-2)

83 A giant? That’s hard

to believe (4)

85 Trouble from scratch (6)

86 Having a road off

it is clever (6)

87 Stops – the books flopping

on the shelf? (4,2,3,2)

DOWN

1 A blunt “slow-witted” (4)

2 A boob from the

backward students (4-2)

3 This time, put the R

in “craving” (6)

4 Do have discrimination

when you get in touch (7)

5 On the other hand,

it’s no loss (5)

6 Unhappiness caused

by a slump? (10)

7 The master making

a joke (5)

8 Prepared to be counseled

by others, which is wise (9)

9 Lined up to be

given first aid (7)

10 That’s what “adagio”

means, stupid! (4)

11 Roughly note the date,

about to set off (8)

15 Steers clear of, because

there’s a chasm in (6)

21 “Insecure” is imprecise (5)

24 What the disclosure of current information is due to? (7)

25 A funny mood? (6)

26 Is redolent of, when

one kisses (6)

28 Five forty-nine. Late

start from home (5)

29 Agree and will back,

you assume (3)

33 Wary, I scuttle inside.

He is mad (7)

34 Just a jiffy, mother.

The net’s tangled (6)

37 Suffices to hold small

quantities (5)

40 Afterwards retaliated,

half crazed (5)

41 Famous, unlike the

average seaman (7)

43 Tire out many in a

short time (5)

44 Allow to be in pain (6)

46 Can be classified

as taxes (5)

49 Tell you you’re wonderful

and stuff! (7)

51 Game to make a

complaint about (6)

53 As it’s rattling right

through the flight (6)

55 Lots and lots of targets

for parasites (5)

58 Definitely favouring,

convinced by (3,7)

60 Fight for the greenback (3)

62 Where to go shooting

in the mountains (5)

63 The lad is wrong about the

girl getting the sack (9)

65 For “green”, strain

to get a rhyme (8)

68 How to keep from going

off is a dilemma (6)

70 Having been arrested,

was prevented from (7)

71 Put off when, on the

day, there is wind (7)

75 Is unhappy about the odd

snag, or setback, in (6)

76 Mean, which is smart,

to look after (6) 77 A centre but not a club (5)

78 Lacking, which is a

disadvantage (5)

80 Said to look your best (4)

84 The former is a bad

timekeeper (4)