GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Type of nuclear

weapon (1-4) 12 Arrange by systematic planning (8)

13 Acquainted with or related to the right people (4-9) 16 Prescribed and accepted modes of behaviour (5) 17 Feeling undue awareness of one’s appearance or actions (4-9) 18 Extraterrestrials (6) 19 Ferric oxide (4) 21 Places (9)

24 Lament (6) 25 Women living under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience (4) 27 Cook in water below boiling point (6)

28 Loads (6)

30 Mesh worn over the

top of the head (7) 31 Fairly or completely

(5)

33 Monster (4) 36 Nautical (6)

37 Small group of

trees (5)

39 Pile (4)

40 Forceful and bitter

verbal attack (8) 44 Employing (5)

45 In an unfair manner

(8)

47 Sight organs (4) 48 Relating to the open

sea (7)

50 Withdraw from

conflict (7)

51 Pinkish aperitif flavoured with bitters (7)

56 Hill where Jesus

was crucified (7) 57 Particular positions or places where things occur (4) 60 Location of the partridge in The Twelve Days Of Christmas (4,4) 62 Paved outdoor area adjoining a house (5)

64 Works (8)

65 Did not float (4) 66 Fail to give a true impression of (5) 67 Musical notes raised one semitone (6) 68 River that flows between South and North Shields (4) 69 Gardening implement (5) 70 Granular preparation of starch (7)

71 Break loose (6) 74 Looked for (6) 77 Part of the leg (4) 78 Decay in wood caused by fungus (3,3)

79 Relieves of anxiety

(9)

83 Water in Spanish

(4)

85 Type of marsupial

(6)

86 Cowardice (13) 89 Terminate (5) 90 Organising lighting and other technical elements of a play (5-8)

91 Relating to the

sense of hearing (8) 92 Matches which lead

to a final (5)

DOWN

1 Hits in baseball which allow batters to make full circuits of the bases (4,4) 2 Preparation of the fragrant rootstock of an iris (5) 3 Nonsense (4)

4 State security police of the former Soviet Union (3)

5 Principle bad character in a work of fiction (7) 6 Amount in each

hundred (10) 7 Moved quickly round to the opposite direction (5)

8 Obstruct (5) 9 Liquorice-flavoured plant ovule (7) 10 Port at the mouth of the Seine (2,5)

11 Two violins, a viola and a cello (6,7) 14 Cut into pieces (4) 15 Meals are eaten at this (6,5)

17 Extra (5)

20 Draw idly (6) 22 Tuxedo (6,6) 23 Cephalopod with eight tentacles (7) 26 Relating to audible sound (5)

29 Napkin (9)

32 Make less bright (6) 34 Circular movement of water (4)

35 Very soft mineral (4) 38 Imprecise (5) 41 Money (when gained dishonourably) (5) 42 Street urchins (12) 43 Exclamation of

disgust (3)

46 At the minimum (9) 49 Edging of small

loops (5)

52 Tree with lobed leaves and winged fruits (5)

53 Priest who acted as a teacher to the prophet Samuel (3) 54 They wear dowdy old-fashioned clothes (6)

55 Actor who played James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies (6,7) 58 Expressing scorn

or criticism (11) 59 Habitual repetition to ’learn something (4)

60 Time gone by (4) 61 Circular badge of

ribbons (7) 63 Counterfeits (5) 66 Sitting space with a rounded back for one person (6,4) 67 Conditions (6) 72 Knocks

unconscious (5) 73 Turns up (8) 74 Confounded (7) 75 Extraordinary (7) 76 Climbs (7)

80 Palm tree with

creeping roots (4) 81 Stinking (5) 82 Pretend to be

affected by (5) 84 Clean and care for

(5)

87 Lines of light (4) 88 Great happiness (3)