GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Chiropteran
mammals (4) 4 Warmth (4)
6 Paint thinner (5,6) 12 Man’s broad silk
necktie (5)
16 Box from which cards are dealt at casinos (4)
18 Island in west
Indonesia (7) 19 Esoteric (6)
20 Alias (3) 21 Carousels (5-2-6) 23 Trojan leader, son of Anchises and Aphrodite (6) 25 Count of the
population (6) 27 Island country in the Indian Ocean (10)
28 Fast (5)
29 Devise (8)
30 Diesel oil for road
vehicles (4)
31 Facets (7)
34 Gave a long, loud,
piercing cry (8) 40 Male animal kept
for breeding (4) 41 From the last period of the Stone Age (9)
42 Pleasant (4) 43 Action of taking away something unwanted (7) 49 Country in northern
Europe (7)
50 20th president of the US who was assassinated (5,8) 52 Enclosing boundary
of a circle (13) 55 Written versions of
a play (7)
61 US conscript (7) 62 38th President of
the US (4) 63 Temporary amusement or diversion (9) 64 Greek goddess equivalent to the Roman goddess Juno (4) 65 British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean (2,6)
69 Least difficult (7) 72 Lots (4)
73 Capital of 49 Across (8)
75 Pointed protuberance (5) 76 Concerning past events (10)
78 Outer covering of something (6) 80 Constant (6) 82 Tailored (4,2,7) 86 Low-quality newspaper (3) 87 Located where it belongs or is appropriate (2,4) 88 Expanse of water lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (4,3) 89 Female relative (4) 90 Squalid (5)
91 Flick knife (11) 92 Lascivious (4) 93 Catch one’s breath (4)
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2 Things done successfully with effort, skill, or courage (12) 3 Mountain range in southern Spain (6,6)
5 Able to soak up liquid easily (9) 7 Detested (5) 8 Amphibian with long hind limbs for leaping (4)
9 Area sheltered from direct sunlight (5)
10 Becomes greater in number (9)
11 Level (4)
12 Type of ballet posture (9) 13 Fellows (5) 14 Microsoft videoconferencing platform (5) 15 Sudden desire (7) 17 Moving along with abrupt alternate left and right turns (10) 22 Waterbirds that have long necks (5) 23 High-level programming language used in aircraft navigation (3)
24 Titles of former monarchs of Iran (5)
26 Male relative (5) 32 Choose (4)
33 Latin American dance of African origin (5)
35 Dead body (7) 36 Makes (someone) believe something false (7)
37 Arrange in advance
(4)
38 Achieve (6) 39 Implores (4) 44 Civilian clothing (5) 45 Style of sweater or
T-shirt (1-4)
Comes to a resolution in the mind as a result of consideration (7) Middle Eastern country whose capital is Damascus (5)
48 Excursion (5) 49 Number represented by XV in Roman numerals (7)
51 Wonder (6)
53 Split (4)
54 Closing sections of musical compositions (5) 56 Group of objects on top of each other
(4)
57 Extremely
unpleasant (4) 58 Without doubt (10) 59 Informal language used by cockneys (7,5)
60 Relatives (12) 66 Land or territory (5) 67 Remarkable enough to be famous (9)
68 They turn litmus red
(5)
69 Radical (9) 70 Involuntary muscular contraction (5) 71 The practice of
spying (9)
74 Cost (7)
77 Extremely cold (3) 78 Roman goddess of
agriculture (5) 79 18th letter of the
Greek alphabet (5) 81 Flour mixture used
in baking bread (5) 83 Accolade (5) 84 Body joints (4) 85 Dividing structure
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