JUMBO CROSSWORD
21/3
ACROSS
1 Stop or refrain from talking (6,4,3) 8 Imprudent (6) 14 Place at intervals (5) 15 Look like (8) 16 Street musicians (7) 17 Vertical passageway (5) 18 Auction item (3) 19 Say again (7) 21 Travel plan (9) 22 Law-abiding (6) 25 Main spouts (anag) (10) 27 Begin (8) 28 Limp (6) 31 Loudness (6) 33 Infatuated (7) 34 Gallows (6) 35 Optical glass (4) 37 Dead heat (3) 39 Smokestack (4) 40 Soft Italian cheese (7) 41 Restore friendly relations between (9) 42 Shouting (7) 43 Insulating substance (8) 48 Enhance (8) 52 Probabilities (7) 56 Welder’s gas (9) 57 Makes (7) 58 As well (4) 59 Large beer or wine cask (3) 60 Vessel (4) 61 Long sea trip (6) 62 Furtiveness (7) 63 Gained after expenses (6) 65 Chaos (6) 66 Idle or inert (8) 68 Spicy biscuits (10) 71 Fish covering (6) 72 Not compulsory (9) 74 Deer meat (7) 76 Plant juice (3) 79 Supple (5) 80 Heedfulness (7) 81 Coffee drug (8) 83 Direct the course of (5) 84 Crops up (6) 85 Have a rest during vigorous activity (4,1,8)
DOWN
2 Futile (7) 3 Embezzlement (5) 4 Pen end (3) 5 Poverty (4) 6 Prove the truth of (12) 7 Norwegian playwright (5) 8 Sudden strong increase (7) 9 Flying stinger (4) 10 Winding ski course (6) 11 Imperfection (5) 12 Give evidence (7) 13 Causing harm or injury (11) 14 Church spire (7) 20 Highly confidential (3,6) 23 Cuts open and examines (8) 24 Floating lump (7) 26 Instrument (7) 27 Old name for China (6) 29 Foretell (7) 30 Save from danger (6) 32 Eyes amorously (5) 34 Wish-granter (5) 36 Pottery beer mug (5) 38 Hidden drawback (4) 43 Pile up (5) 44 Conciseness of expression (7) 45 River in the underworld (4) 46 Wild cat (6) 47 Adhesive (5) 48 Emerging from eggs (8) 49 Not expressing genuine feelings (9) 50 Make more cheerful (7) 51 Come after (5) 52 French painter (7) 53 Clearly obvious (11) 54 Plot (6) 55 Aggressive behaviour (12) 64 Fiasco (7) 65 Communiqué (7) 67 Options (7) 69 Defeat heavily (7) 70 Court clown (6) 71 Pamper (5) 73 Siberian forest (5) 75 Bungling (5) 77 Church seats (4) 78 Wound crust (4) 82 Enemy (3)