The Chronicle

JUMBO CROSSWORD | 851

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ACROSS

1 Consumers (5) 4 Scornful loathing (8) 9 See-through section in an envelope (6) 14 Carpenter’s tool (5) 15 Initial difficulti­es in an enterprise (8,8) 17 Grinding tooth (5) 18 Small round mark (3) 19 Maybe (7)

20 100th anniversar­y (9) 21 Quick light meals (6) 24 Wormlike pasta (9)

25 Of cats (6)

26 Stick (6)

29 Being contrite about (10) 31 Age (3)

32 Looked as if (6) 33 Pirouette (4)

35 Large vase (3)

37 Level (4) 39 Two-hulled sailboat (9) 40 Immunise (9)

41 Two times (5) 42 Unmarried man (8) 47 Opening allowing access (8)

51 Shatter (5) 55 Off-the-cuff (9) 56 Copiousnes­s (9) 58 Unfold (4) 59 Quantity of money (3) 60 Needle, incite (4) 61 Black-and-white bird (6) 62 Garland (3)

63 Tried out for a role (10) 66 Yearly book (6) 67 Financial plan (6) 69 Spreader of sleeping sickness (6,3) 72 Illuminate­s (6)

73 Those deliberate­ly destroying, damaging (9) 75 Fine glassware (7) 77 Mined rock (3)

80 Leg bone (5)

81 Fully investigat­e and find out the truth about (3,2,3,6,2) 82 Rot (5)

83 Language of Israel (6) 84 Quirks (8)

85 Very strange (5)

DOWN

2 Dock worker (9)

3 Gag (5)

5 Wild sex party (4) 6 Anguish (7) 7 Climbers (12)

8 Claw (5) 9 Spendthrif­t (7) 10 Identify (4) 11 Rectangula­r (6)

12 Hired helpers (5) 13 Planet (7)

14 Go before (7)

16 Not workable, unrealisti­c (11) 22 Frugality (6)

23 Daunt, disconcert (7) 24 Pull longer (7) 25 Display ostentatio­usly (6) 27 Say how, why (7) 28 Cleric (6)

30 Match (4)

32 Shelled creature (5) 34 Female relative (5) 36 Jetty (4) 38 Meadow (3)

42 Fetch (5)

43 Team leader (7) 44 Love god (4) 45 Parentless child (6) 46 Bring about (5) 48 Milestone birthday (6-5) 49 Expression of regret (7) 50 Signal (3) 51 Unneeded extra (7) 52 Small village (6) 53 Ignored, excluded (3,2,3,4) 54 Concept (4)

57 Cult of nakedness (6) 64 Attempt (9) 65 Misbehavin­g (7) 66 Marzipan ingredient (7) 68 Scottish city (7) 70 Hearing-distance (7) 71 Subject to little fluctuatio­n (6) 72 Bloodsucki­ng worm (5) 74 Go one better than (5) 76 Range (5) 78 Equitable (4) 79 Competent (4)

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