JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Distrust (5) 4 Money borrowing charge (8) 9 Threaten (6) 14 Interrogate (5) 15 Indicate surrender (4,3,5,4) 17 Sculpt (5) 18 Space between (3) 19 Happening by degrees (7) 20 Dental cleaner (9) 21 Fly that spreads sleeping sickness (6) 24 Crude oil (9) 25 Basement (6) 26 Amigo (6) 29 From now on (10) 31 Watch (3) 32 Bread-flavouring seeds (6) 33 Laze (4) 35 Consume (3) 37 Healthy (4) 39 Wake late (9) 40 Us (9) 41 Long for (5) 42 Frankly (8) 47 Sent back into custody (8) 51 Stadium (5) 55 Cut short (9) 56 Pasta strings (9) 58 Fish-landing pole (4) 59 Donkey (3) 60 Inheritor (4) 61 Hole in tooth (6) 62 Unwell (3) 63 Group appointed to represent others (10) 66 On land (6) 67 Church official (6) 69 Expenditure (9) 72 Vigour (6) 73 Petrol-engine part (5,4) 75 Betrothed (7) 77 Friend (3) 80 Very fluid (5) 81 Go out in bad weather (5,3,8) 82 Borders (5) 83 Knob (6) 84 Lover’s song (8) 85 Belt (5)

DOWN

2 Or else (9) 3 Curved (5) 5 Tidings (4) 6 Story segment (7) 7 Not easily irritated (4-8) 8 Flowering bulb (5) 9 Bewitching, spellbinding (7) 10 Pleasant (4) 11 Cadaver (6) 12 Mournful song (5) 13 Applauded (7) 14 Make a signal (7) 16 Kind, generous, forgiving nature (5,2,4) 22 Rough (6) 23 Ardour (7) 24 Preserved in vinegar (7) 25 Eerie (6) 27 Developed over time (7) 28 Come forth (6) 30 Silence (4) 32 Wander off (5) 34 Welded together (5) 36 Greek letter (4) 38 Age (3) 42 Nab (5) 43 Feed (7) 44 Prickling (4) 45 Deadly (6) 46 Hold up (5) 48 Upkeep (11) 49 Invalidates (7) 50 Pixie (3) 51 Fan (7) 52 Allocate (6) 53 Don’t show up (4,2,6) 54 Cast off (4) 57 Walk quietly (6) 64 Musical group (9) 65 Amount overdue (7) 66 Modified (7) 68 Competent (7) 70 Strengthen (7) 71 Meeting schedule (6) 72 Poem (5) 74 Thoroughfares (5) 76 Wide-awake (5) 78 Coloured (4) 79 Bawdy (4)