Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Clowning (9)
14 Waited in line (6,2)
15 Crooked, askew (4)
16 Become liable to (5)
19 Walked with a spring (7)
20 Power of speech (7)
21 Crown jewels item (3)
22 Group (7)
23 Complain (5)
25 Truck fuel (6)
27 Country to the west of Egypt (5)
Making progress (9) Daydreamer (9)
Wild shopping trip (5) Cause irritation (4)
All the star signs (6) (Under) constraint (6) Runs out (7) Abound (4)
Drag a leg when walking (4) Be hot under the collar (4) Round stringed instrument with a long neck (5) Celtic language (5) Well cared‑for (hands) (9) Biblical character swallowed by a whale (5) Sites, spots (6)
Rope with a noose, thrown to catch cattle (5) Disdain (5)
Painted curtain to the rear of a stage (9)
In a humorous and entertaining fashion (9) Country formerly known as the Gold Coast (5) Used a stopwatch on (5) Noticeable (6) Invited (5)
Element found in dolomite (9)
Best possible notion (5) ___ Young, lead guitarist in AC/DC (5) Crutch (4)
Loop, entwine (4) 29 34 36 37 38 41 43 45 46 47 49
51 53 55
60 62
63 65
67 69
70 72 73 75
77 78
83 85 86 ___ Collette,
actress (4) Bon ___, enjoy your meal! (7) Large dam‑building rodent (6)
Nook, recess (6) Headland (4) Awkward (5) Occasion for saying goodbye to an old colleague (7,2)
98 Matching crockery (6,3)
100Artfully shy (5)
102 Find the position of (6)
104One of the seven
deadly sins (5)
108Sports tops (7)
110 Common queries and
their answers (inits)(3)
111 Solves (7)
113 Meat cartilage (7)
115 Fracture (5)
116 Pierce with a horn (4)
117 Money paid to a bank for
having an overdraft (8)
118 Arouse (3,6)
DOWN
1 Explosive device (4)
2 Glasses, informally (5)
3 Indian nationalist and spiritual leader (6) Low‑toned brass instrument (4) Affect, stage (3,2) Gently swirl (4) Eerie (6) Roadside area (3‑2) Go before (7)
Work with wool (4) Overtake in a race (6) Hardly perceptible quantity (7) Fondle, pamper (6)
Big toy ring (4,4) Mass entry (6) Narrow intense beam of light (5) 88 90
92 93 94 95 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13
17 18 24 26 28
Resistance to change in motion (7) Steep rock face, especially on the coast (5) Girl (4) Worthless rubbish (5) Card which can be high or low in blackjack (3) Sugar‑coated (4) Anger (3)
Brown and orange butterfly (5)
40 Kept quiet (8)
42 Age (3)
44 Urban green spaces (5)
48 Corm (4)
50 ___ J, pop star (6)
52 Yes‑men (7)
54 Lit (7)
56 Distinctive smell (5) 30
31 32 33
35 37 39 57 58 59 61 62
64 66 68 71 74
76 79
80 81 82 84
lioness (4) Malaysia’s continent (4) Business sense (6) Vulgar (5)
Hut in a Canadian forest, perhaps (3,5) Country bordering Yemen (4) Hark (4)
Pull hard (4) Intended (5)
Country bordering Lebanon and Turkey (5) Have recourse to (7)
___ Stubbs,
actress (3) Light beer (5) Volcano on Sicily (4) Remove from a country (6) Edible nut of the hickory tree (5) 85 87 89 90 91
Bounded about (8) Be indebted (3) Flower part (5)
Part of a wicket (4) Electronically transmitted hard copy (3)
95 Grasshopper‑like insect (6)
96 Monica ___, TV chef (7)
97 Suspense (7)
99 Damage (6)
101 Find not guilty (6)
103 Earmarked (6)
105 Opposite of ‘before’ (5)
106 Orange‑yellow pigment (5)
107 Cheroot, eg (5)
109 Enjoy a book (4)
111 Tax on goods imported (4)
112 Sunset (4)
114 Hollow reflected sound (4)
24 25
Thrown to journalist on ship (6) Private remarks from assistants holding squadron leader (6)