The Chronicle

JUMBO CROSSWORD

- Solution in Monday’s paper

ACROSS

1. Free of charge (6)

4. Incessant (9)

9. Recount (4)

11. Play on words (3)

12. Fire residue (3)

13. Dread (4)

15. Singing group (5)

16. Head of a cereal plant (3)

17. Comply (4)

19. Stood up (4)

21. Become indistinct (4)

23. Piece of piano music (3)

24. Middle (6)

26. Unattracti­ve (4)

27. Recede (3)

28. Run into (3)

30. Afresh (4)

31. Send money (5)

32. Assumed name (5)

34. Expiring (5)

35. Carry (4)

36. Badly behaved child (4)

38. Palm fruit (4)

39. Impulse (4)

40. This one or that (6)

44. Conflict (3)

45. Astonished (6)

46. Listen to (4)

48. Shout (4)

50. Black magic (6)

51. Formerly (3)

53. Tower of London guard (6)

57. Friend (4)

58. Flat unleavened bread (4)

59. Wall (4)

61. Trickle (4)

63. Pastoral (5)

65. Move stealthily (5)

67. Additional (5)

68. Caesar’s fatal date in March (4)

69. Stain (3)

70. Oil platform (3)

71. Region (4)

72. Altercatio­n (6)

75. It can be i or p (3)

76. Knoll (4)

79. Calf meat (4)

81. Catcher’s glove (4)

82. Hotel (3)

83. Series of steps (5)

84. Fable (4)

85. Signal (3)

86. Be mistaken (3)

87. Biblical figure (4)

88. Superiorit­y (9)

89. Sinew (6)

DOWN

1. Risk everything (2,3,5)

2. Novice (4)

3. Fit of extravagan­ce (5)

4. Unedited (of a film) (5)

5. Water-borne disease (7)

6. Central area of a building (6)

7. In the best case (7)

8. Clothing (4)

9. You (archaic) (4)

10. Idler (8)

14. Disputatio­n (8)

18. Beer maker (6)

20. Deliberate­ly sink your own ship (7)

22. Lengthy (4)

25. Tidy (4)

29. Twisted or squint (5)

30. Irregulari­ty (7)

33. Shelf (5)

34. Marriage payment (5)

36. Cry of approval (5)

37. Stadium (5)

41. Creamy-white colour (5)

42. Stall (5)

43. Diamond shape (7)

47. Live (5)

49. Wipe out (5)

52. Hot (food) (5)

54. Cost (7)

55. Increase (8)

56. Occasional­ly (3,3,4)

59. Milk producer (8)

60. Chess piece (6)

62. Heroic (4)

63. Genuine (4)

64. Word formed from initial letters (7)

66. Hold back (7)

69. Variety of plum (6)

73. Assent (5)

74. Prevent from happening (5)

77. Scratch (4)

78. Deliberate­ly misled (4)

80. Prayer ending (4)

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