GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Any physical game (7,5)
7 1960 Hitchcock thriller starring
Anthony Perkins (6)
11 Greenland’s native people (5)
15 Grass cutter (5)
16 Messy outdoor activity
involving capsules of dye (9)
17 Study of food intake (9)
18 Arrow case (6)
19 Little Women character (3,5)
20 Fifty-first psalm (8)
24 Former county town in
Scotland’s central belt (6)
25 British admiral executed
in 1757 (4)
27 Knoll (7)
28 Main religion of Indonesia (5)
31 Chinese city famed for its
terracotta army (4)
32 1959 hit for Neil Sedaka (2,5)
33 Highway to Hell group (2/2)
34 French president before
Sarkozy (6)
38 Slavonic language (7)
40 Old Testament prophet who warned against worshipping pagan gods (6)
41 Instrument with tuned
metal bars (10)
45 Fountain featured in Fellini’s
La Dolce Vita (5)
46 1983 film starring Dan Aykroyd
and Eddie Murphy (7,6)
48 Surname of the female lead actress in Gone with the Wind (5)
49 Timber from which Noah’s Ark
was made (6,4)
50 Spanish fleet of 1588 (6)
52 Mountain range in which Banff
and Jasper are located (7)
55 Prairie ___, hangover
remedy (6)
58 First name of controversial German
film-maker Riefenstahl (4)
59 American Art Nouveau glassware (7)
60 Italian exclamation (4)
65 Star sign for Gemini (5)
66 Gerry and the Pacemakers’
second No.1 hit in the 1960s (1,4,2)
67 Anything ___, Cole Porter musical (4)
68 1891 biblical play by Oscar Wilde (6)
70 City south of San Francisco (8)
71 Western countries (8)
73 Sergeant Bilko’s first name (6)
76 Biscuit with currants (9)
78 Fees paid to counsel (9)
79 Country in which Graham Greene’s
The Comedians is set (5)
80 Monastery head (5)
81 Author of A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (6)
82 American climbing plant used to flavour
some drinks (12)
DOWN
1 Bivouac (4)
2 Large island north of Australia (3,6) 3 Termite-eating mammal (8) 4 Nocturnal mammals from tropical America (6)
5 GP level of service in the NHS (7,4)
6 The Wind in the Willows character (5)
8 Accompaniment to a pepper pot (4,6)
9 Closing part, in music (4)
10 Tall, narrow, Egyptian-style monuments (8)
11 Water in a solid state (3)
12 Metal-bending entertainer (3,6)
13 A ___ of Honey, Rita Tushingham film (5)
14 Chocolate-and-cream confectionery filling (7) 21 Laura Carmichael’s role in Downton Abbey (5)
22 Ancient potion (6)
23 Award for very high record sales (4,4)
26 House plant related to the African violet (8)
29 Shakespeare tragedy set in Scotland (7)
30 1974 Jack Nicholson mystery movie (9)
35 Edna Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray (6)
36 City in Alberta (7)
37 Louis ___, jazz musician (9)
39 Doctor ___, Stephen King’s sequel to
The Shining (5)
42 Majestic building (6)
43 African antelope with a reddish-fawn back (5)
44 Free to fluctuate (of a currency) (8)
45 ___ Annie, character in the
stories of Norman Reilly Raine (7)
47 Chronic baldness (8)
51 Long-serving PC in Heartbeat (3,8)
53 Buttered cakes (6)
54 Wrecking Ball singer (5,5)
56 Tight-fitting top, originally
fashionable in the 1960s (6-3)
57 ___ and Doris Waters,
music-hall duo (5)
61 Finch with an overlapping beak (9)
62 Oblique offshoot (4-4)
63 Caribbean island whose
neighbour is Nevis (2,5)
64 NASA structure (8)
69 Brand-name cold remedy (6)
70 First name of Ms Szubanski,
Australian comedy actress (5)
72 Heather (5)
74 Air bed (4)
75 Opera composed by Verdi in
1871 (4)
77 Pipistrelle or mouse-eared, eg (3)