JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Daily record (5)

4 As good as new; perfect (2,4,9)

14 Expunge (5)

15 Japanese capital (5)

16 Facts and figures (10)

17 Sparkle (5)

19 Terminate (3)

20 Tag a yew (anag)(7)

21 During pregnancy (9)

22 Make or become gentler (6)

25 Wages container (3,6)

27 Dense equatorial forest (6)

28 Adolescents (6)

33 Star-gazing instruments (10)

35 Donkey (3)

36 Former US president (6)

37 Press (4)

39 Digit (3)

41 Dry white burgundy wine (7)

42 Japanese war cry (6)

43 Alteration (9)

44 Former French monetary unit (5)

45 Short amusing account (8) 50 Via (2)

51 Notorious (8)

55 Canal boat (5)

58 Janitor (9)

59 Skilful, deft (6)

60 Flower dealer (7)

61 One of the Seven Dwarfs (3)

63 Aquatic bird (4)

64 Whole (6)

65 Boiling (3)

66 Thrifty (10)

68 Cricket team (6)

69 Put in position (6)

71 Interplanetary craft (9)

76 Suited (anag)(6)

77 Charge-holding electrical device (9)

79 Keyboard player (7)

81 Cereal crop (3)

84 Mound of stones as a monument (5)

85 Egg-shaped (10)

86 Yellowy pigment (5)

87 Permission (5)

88 Give free reign to youthful excess (3,4,4,4)

89 African country (5)

DOWN

2 Weather map line (6)

3 Poem (5)

5 Fish traps (4)

6 Severe (7)

7 Sampled by mouth (6)

8 Séance board (5)

9 Look down on with contempt (7)

10 Labels (4)

11 US state (6)

12 Sanctuary (5)

13 Blushes (7)

14 Strong feeling (7)

18 Frothy coffee (10)

23 Range (5)

24 Yearly calendar (7)

26 Astringently sour (7)

27 Show adequate grounds for doing (7)

29 Underwater missile (7)

30 Peacock’s mate (6)

31 Cereal crop (5)

32 Pub (6)

34 Join line (4)

36 make less strict (5)

38 Paper money (5)

40 Concept (4)

45 Sparked across (5)

46 Pain in head (7)

47 Information (4)

48 Carrying away (6) 49

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(7)

56 Ire (5)

57 Workbench clamp (4)

62 Put into words (5)

67 Salad vegetable (7)

68 Gemstone (7)

70 French castle (7)

72 Clause in a contract (7)

73 Country bordering the US (6)

74 Disperse, drive away (6)

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Newlywed (5) Stranded out of water

Camaraderie (10) Cocktail (7) Dethrone (6) Writing for the blind

Fish hawk (6) Rot (5) Incandescent (5) Recess (5) Exclusively (4) Immense (4)

1. Equilibrium 8. Thinner 9. Twice 10. Rung 11. Averted 12. Oil 13. Pomp 15. Aunt 17. Gag 19. Outcome 20. Sour 23. Brave 24. Dialect 25. Deteriorate.

1. Entire 2. Union 3. Lend 4. Burial 5. In the bag 6. Moisten 7. Steady 12. Opponent 14. Outward 16. Bobbed 17. Gender 18. Writhe 21. Omega 22. Halo.