GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Golf club used to hit
long shots (4) 3 Slight hollow in an
even surface (4) 6 Small but useful
pieces of advice (4) 8 Cooled with frozen
water (4)
11 Seems (7) 17 Accustom to something unpleasant (5) 18 Simple, not
elaborate (5) 19 Acquire knowledge
(5)
20 Forfeit (5) 21 Member of the FBI
(informal) (3) 22 Network of intersecting blood vessels or nerves
(6)
24 Without unnecessary ornamentation (6) 25 Matching crockery
items (3,3)
26 Look in a lascivious
way (4)
28 Male humans (3) 29 Amount of something produced, especially money (3-4)
31 Study closely (7) 32 Lets off (7) 35 Spawning (anag.)
(8)
39 Watched attentively
(8)
41 Long programme raising funds for charity (8) 44 Money-making (9) 45 Russian stringed
instrument (9) 48 European edible
fish (4)
50 Dry and withered
(literary) (4)
52 High quality beef (5) 53 Bendable (7) 55 Lump of a precious
metal (6) 56 Bounded or limited
in magnitude (6) 57 Sound made by forcing air through a narrow gap (7) 59 Ball-shaped
handles (5)
61 Go away (4) 65 Respiratory organ (4) 68 Latent qualities that may be developed (9)
69 US woody plant which has cupshaped flowers
(5,4)
71 Tree valued for its longevity and fragrant blooms (8) 72 Match officials (8) 74 Luxuriously selfindulgent (8) 79 Characters written in slanting type (7) 81 Flood protector (7) 83 Art movement in French cinema in the 1960s (3,4) 85 Dignitary (3) 87 Depend (4)
88 Drab (6)
89 Part of a motor around which the rotor revolves (6) 90 Misprints (6) 94 Promise (3) 95 Kicks (5) 96 Drench in liquid (5) 97 Pieces of carbonised plant matter (5) 98 Aromatic plant of the mint family (5) 99 Kinswomen (7)
100 Hit with a sharp blow with a flat object (4)
101 Butt (4)
102 Job (4)
103 Male relatives (4)
DOWN
1 North American nightjars which have distinctive calls (13) 2 Rich (7)
4 Playfully mischievous people (4)
5 Refuse collectors in the US (8) 6 Republic in NW Africa (7)
7 Reduce to very small particles (9) 9 Wedge-shaped (7) 10 Distinguishing mark or characteristic (11) 11 Supposed emanation surrounding the body (4)
12 Tendency to behave in a certain way (10) 13 Declare solemnly and formally as true (6)
14 Made unhappy (8) 15 Domesticated ox
14
with a humped back (4)
16 Babies toy (6) 23 Denude (5)
27 Twin brother of Artemis (6) 30 Sheep in its second year (3) 33 Summarise briefly (12)
34 Idiot (4)
36 More pleasant (5) 37 Large, flat thick piece (4)
38 In a sloping position and nearly falling (5) 40 Bacterial disease characterised by a bright red rash (7,5) 42 Put into a new form without significant improvement (6) 43 Structure in which eggs are laid (4) 46 Most plentiful (7) 47 Antelope with lyreshaped horns (3) 48 Wise men (5) 49 Insects that live in a
formicarium (4) 51 Looking closely at
(5)
52 Large number (4) 54 Quality of being kind
or gentle (6) 56 Containing as much
as possible (4) 58 Artificial universal language developed from Esperanto (3) 60 Attractive girl or
woman (5)
62 Hex (5)
63 Flat boards on
supporting legs (7,6) 64 The Capital of
Samoa (4) 66 Hebrew patriarch
(4)
67 Seaport and industrial city in northern Spain (6) 68 They use other’s words or ideas as if they were their own (11)
70 Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonoured (10) 73 Becoming active or
popular again (9) 75 Greek island whose capital is Heraklion (5)
76 Water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight (3) 77 Spins (8)
78 Lacking general education or knowledge (8) 80 Second most populous city in Wales (7)
81 Device attached to the cartridge of a record player (6) 82 Young ursine
mammal (4,3) 84 Expanse of water lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (4,3) 86 Edible decapod
crustaceans (6) 91 Steals (4)
92 Light explosive
sounds (4) 93 Requests (4)
Vision on: Members of the BBC Two production team at Television Centre, London, the day before the planned launch of the BBC’s second channel, on April 19 1964. At centre is Pamela Donald, the channel’s only female announcer.