JUMBO CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Foreign (5) 4 Heading towards financial disaster (2,3,4,2,4) 14 Male duck (5) 15 Water vapour (5) 16 Found unexpectedly (10) 17 Glowed (5) 19 Female sheep (3) 20 Wild cat (7) 21 Somnambulate (9) 22 Higher in rank (6) 25 Complete reversal (5-4) 27 Orange vegetable (6) 28 Thin paper (6) 33 Excessively sweet (10) 35 Road-making liquid (3) 36 Hot fragrant spice (6) 37 Magician’s stick (4) 39 Clamour (3) 41 Introductory music (7) 42 African expedition (6) 43 Story published by only one newspaper (9) 44 Thigh bone (5) 45 Standard mast (8) 50 Representing (2) 51 Promontory (8) 55 Detest (5) 58 Riddle (9) 59 Beat (6) 60 Law (7) 61 Cereal crop (3) 63 Short burlesque (4) 64 Money offered for lost property return (6) 65 Regret bitterly (3) 66 Owner (10) 68 Havoc (6) 69 Brave (6) 71 Pen name (9) 76 Not often (6) 77 Unit of distance (9) 79 Of different lengths (7) 81 Furrow (3) 84 Digging tool (5) 85 Narrow place restricting flow (10) 86 Trite (5) 87 Swelling (5) 88 Unable to move (6,2,3,4) 89 Bid (5) DOWN 2 Deadly (6) 3 Precise (5) 5 Steel pin (4) 6 Audience pest (7) 7 Critical assessment of a book or film (6) 8 Direction indicator (5) 9 Young child (7) 10 Put in jeopardy (4) 11 Pressed (6) 12 Be indecisive (5) 13 Umpire (7) 14 Shortfall (7) 18 Vitality, dynamism (3-2-3-2) 23 Earthenware beer mug (5) 24 Maker of metal castings (7) 26 Work build-up (7) 27 Capital of Wales (7) 29 Staying power (7) 30 Keg (6) 31 Book of maps (5) 32 Save from danger (6) 34 A Dutch cheese (4) 36 Garden figure (5) 38 Fear (5) 40 Money reserve (4) 45 Camera adjustment (5) 46 Yearly allowance (7) 47 Garden lake (4) 48 Food store (6) 49 Fragment of broken glass (5) 50 Hospital attendant (7) 52 On seafront (anag) (10) 53 Sweepstake (7) 54 Country (6) 55 Friendly and pleasant (7) 56 In search of (5) 57 Catch one’s breath (4) 62 Scoundrel (5) 67 Hermit (7) 68 Germ (7) 70 Ascended (7) 72 Contracts (7) 73 Root vegetable (6) 74 Bodily soundness (6) 75 Empty (6) 76 Musty (5) 78 Surpass (5) 80 Drink down heartily (5) 82 Skilful (4) 83 Reverberation (4)