GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Company’s list of income and

outgoings (7,5)

7 Italian town in which

Verdi’s Rigoletto is set (6)

11 Roberta ___, singer of Killing

Me Softly with His Song (5)

15 Leo ___, 1970s pop star (5)

16 Citrus, egg and sugar

recipe (5,4)

17 Row of supports for an

entablature or roof (9)

18 Three Men in a Boat author (6)

19 Classic Charlie Chaplin

film (3,5)

20 Christians of a Protestant

denomination (8)

24 Astronaut with the nickname

Buzz (6)

25 First name of World War Z

star Mr Pitt (4)

27 Ivy League university located

in Ithaca, New York State (7)

28 Austrian painter best known

for The Kiss (5)

31 One of the Channel Islands (4)

32 Maryland border river (7)

33 Common bridge bidding system developed in the

1930s (4)

34 Sea area east of Forties (6)

38 Country that owns the

Galapagos Islands (7)

40 DH Lawrence novella

published in 1923 (3,3)

41 Crew’s quarters on a ship (10)

45 Famous diarist (5)

46 Ken Barlow in

Coronation Street (7,6)

48 Duelling swords (5)

49 Palace near Paris built for

Louis XIV (10)

50 Spain, to the locals (6)

52 Clear quartz (7)

55 Paul ___, creator of Lily Savage (1’5)

58 Ms Simone, singer of My Baby Just Cares for Me (4)

59 Sir Walter Scott novel (7)

60 Pakistan’s lingua franca (4)

65 Capital of Jordan (5)

66 Third of TS Eliot’s Ariel poems (7)

67 All You ___ Is Love, 1967 Beatles hit (4)

68 North American wild dog (6)

70 11th-century Scottish queen, later canonised (8)

71 White powder used as an antacid (8)

73 Irish dramatist who wrote Juno and the Paycock (1’5)

76 Alistair Maclean’s last novel (9)

78 Natalie ___, Australian singer (9)

79 Big Greek isle (5)

80 Another name for the chemical compound

saltpetre (5)

81 Geena Davis’ role in a 1991 female road movie (6)

82 Old BBC daytime medical documentary series (4,8)

DOWN

1 Hit hard again and again (4)

2 Unordained assistant at an Anglican service (3,6)

3 Stupor caused by drugs (8)

4 Come On ___, 1982 hit by Dexy’s Midnight

Runners (6) 5 1980s father-son sitcom (4,2,5)

6 Bert’s Sesame Street pal (5)

8 2013 Wimbledon men’s singles champion (4,6)

9 Robin Hood’s clerical ally (4)

10 Comedy series set in wartime France (4,4)

11 ___ in Acapulco, Elvis film (3)

12 Author of the capitalist canon The Wealth of

Nations (4,5)

13 Leg parts whose bone is called the patella (5) 14 Director of 2001: A Space Odyssey (7)

21 Surname of George, Mr Sulu in Star Trek (5)

22 Female friend of Scooby-doo (6)

23 Geological period including the Triassic and

Jurassic (8)

26 Person with a deficiency of insulin (8)

29 Thanksgiving fare (7)

30 US waterfront promenade (9)

35 Ukrainian port where the Potemkin Steps

are located (6)

36 Former name of Taiwan (7)

37 Beyond the Fringe co-writer (5,4)

39 Part of a shoe (5)

42 Squirrel-like lemur of Madagascar (3-3) 43 Internet micropost (5)

44 Chicken in wine (3,2,3)

45 Dish named after a ballerina (7)

47 Roman goddess of gaiety (8)

51 Sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

Show (5,6)

53 Hardy’s comedy partner (6)

54 Accurate depiction of detail, in art and

literature (10)

56 Dutch painter of The Anatomy Lesson (9)

57 Italian equivalent of madam or lady (5)

61 American president (9)

62 Cosmetic surgery (8)

63 ___ Rudge, Charles Dickens novel (7)

64 Arctic region (5,3)

69 Caribbean island near Trinidad (6)

70 Perry ___, old TV lawyer (5)

72 Citizen of Riyadh, eg (5)

74 French writer who won the 1947 Nobel Prize

for Literature (4)

75 Howard ___, Calamity Jane star (4)

77 Spanish exclamation (3)