GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS 12
In prison, when food is dished out (7,4)
13 Result of taking the
photo from below? (6)
14 The tear was jagged
– from a tool (6)
16 Excitement when the
stripper starts dancing (4)
17 Give a party in harbour (9)
18 Urge to clamp down on (5)
19 Concerned with the
agitation (2-2)
20 Charming when trying to
get something from (9)
22 Try to ascertain if the pupil
has literary abilities (5)
23 Lacking sense – and
lacking heart (9)
27 Do long to sail,
getting a boat (7)
30 Worked in order that
the idle played (6)
31 Shoot an animal (4)
32 A pet name (5)
35 Norm is tight-fisted (4)
36 Supposed it was the
merest soupcon (7)
38 Split and let the rain
through, confound it! (4)
39 Understands what
“ruches” means (7) 42 Pull in and stop (6)
45 Goes out with, to
get fruit (5)
46 No longer smokes when it ceases to be fashionable (4,3)
47 Has he made lino pile? (4)
48 The collar is scratchy,
you say (4)
50 Terribly wary about
the girl: a fugitive (7)
52 Plus being in the
form of a group (5)
54 Returning furious, demand
to see the material (6)
56 “You”, I interposed, “would
be more prepared to” (7)
57 Gather it’s the majority (4)
59 Or will be engulfed by
the river in flood (7)
61 Pinch the boy (4)
64 Conjure words up
like magic? (5)
66 Leave, cross, when there’s
a drawback about (4)
67 I’m going to declare.
Definitely (3,3)
69 Was clearly surprised to
have been the first (7)
72 Got engaged to the other, having run into debt badly (9) 73 Pictures showing a
fellow, slim, running (5)
74 Helped terrorists and
became rich from (4,1,4)
79 The number first
on the roster (4)
81 Someone depicted
as a problem (5)
82 Devastated to have produced eggs nobody wanted? (4,5)
83 Wind up with a lot
of money (4)
85 Putting the chap in
the shade is kind (6)
86 Sound quality popular
with readers (6)
87 Further tuition for the
not very good (6-5)
DOWN
1 Get warmed up for
the minor event (4)
2 A rhyme for “opposed” (6)
3 Not properly – or poorly (6)
4 Saying the box has an
animal on the outside (7)
5 The opposite of dowdy
and stupid (5)
6 Allowing the palmist to see a line showing you’re generous? (4-6) 7 Takes away and flogs (5)
8 Dog with a tot clinging
to its neck (2,7)
9 Squashes are the drinks (7)
10 Tops up a little (4)
11 As usual, the two boys
were forgiven (8)
15 The girl had a number
of meals out (6)
21 Turn out to be badly
overpriced, for a start (5)
24 Tough stuff to beat (7)
25 The fellow should
have struggled (6)
26 Rush to load up (6)
28 It’s overcrowded,
stupid! (5)
29 The destiny of many (3)
33 And, splashing in the
bowl, is sweet (7)
34 Stuck by the previous
editor (6)
37 Are trying and you start
to get irritable (5)
40 Shakes, which really
surprises one (5)
41 Because of having links
with, decades ago (7)
43 Sure moving round
in will awaken (5)
44 Went off when one
aimed at (6) 46 A general allowance (5)
49 Musician unpopular with
Inland Revenue (7)
51 What I stumbled right into
in the haunted house? (6)
53 Say very loudly
“That’s funny” (6)
55 The description of the
key is unimportant (5)
58 Light seen in the
graveyard? (6,4)
60 It flies up and down (3)
62 Off-white and plum (5)
63 The dear prior, lost
in thought… (9)
65 …and the prior is devout”,
the clergyman put in (8)
68 Providing cover to protect
the rascal. That’s clear (6)
70 Rushed the summit through that prevented it (7)
71 Father’s crazy –
so in love (7)
75 Including me in the sendoff improves things (6)
76 Only just getting the
degree you depend on (6)
77 Find exercise a bore (5)
78 We enter, ready to
have dessert (5)
80 Bag the role for a
comeback (4)
84 Are durable, is the
conclusion (4)