JUMBO CROSSWORD

NUMBER: 870

ACROSS

1 Large water body (5)

4 Carry out (a task) with all one’s energy (3,4,4,4)

14 Figure out (5)

15 Bet (5)

16 Intentional (10)

17 Waterway (5)

19 Pair (3)

20 Positive (7)

21 Self-service restaurant (9) 22 Hypnotic state (6)

25 Outer layer of skin (9)

27 Bumpy (6)

28 Decapitate (6)

33 Text subdivisions (10)

35 Spark across (3)

36 Black eye (6)

37 Wild cat (4)

39 Moo (3)

41 Aged (7)

42 Sea trip (6)

43 Travel plan (9)

44 Confess (5)

45 Scenic view (8)

50 Alternatively (2)

51 Fidgety (8)

55 Association of craftsmen (5) 58 Staff (9)

59 Not transparent (6)

60 Recipe (7)

61 Mongrel (3)

63 Told a fib (4)

64 Blind with light (6)

65 Peculiar (3)

66 Nourishment (10)

68 Grass-cutting implement (6)

69 Official count (6) 71 Feeling of fondness (9) 76 Rural worker (6) 77 Numbered target (9) 79 Surgeon’s knife (7) 81 Night before (3) 84 Planet (5) 85 Dramatist (10) 86 Slow-moving creature (5) 87 Premature (5) 88 Obsessive idea (3,2,4,6) 89 Theatre guide (5)

DOWN

2 Mountain hut (6) 3 On guard (5) 5 Second-hand (4) 6 Paper-folding art (7) 7 Cricket team (6) 8 Courageous (5) 9 Narrow fissure (7) 10 Strong restless desire (4) 11 Treeless Arctic plain (6) 12 Open space in forest (5) 13 Very loyal (7) 14 Gracefully thin (7) 18 Fairytale character (10) 23 Burial vault (5) 24 Amount short (7) 26 Sugar pill (7) 27 Ill-defined (7)

29 Do like (7) 30 Summer flower (6) 31 Deadly (5) 32 Make up one’s mind (6) 34 Small mark (4) 36 Inundate (5) 38 Bottomless chasm (5) 40 Waist band (4)

45 Eye centre (5) 46 Greenhouse (7) 47 Building cover (4) 48 Handbook (6) 49 Cringe (5) 50 Emitting a smell (7) 52 Flue (10)

53 Back problem (7) 54 Single out (6) 55 Pane worker (7) 56 Useful (5)

57 Ado (4) 62 Grey-faced (5) 67 Curative treatment (7) 68 Add sugar (7) 70 Hair cleaner (7)

72 Of another country (7) 73 Shelter (6)

74 Spider’s trap (6)

75 Of small and dainty build (6) 76 Passenger boat (5) 78 Barter (5)

80 Touches down (5) 82 Asian desert (4)

83 Foot cover (4)