JUMBO CROSSWORD

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Inquisitive (7)

Energy, initiative (3-2-3-2)

9 Feeling of mild sickness (7)

13 Requiring little effort (4)

14 Cloth with crisscross pattern (6)

15 Stinging plant (6)

16 Spicy, not sweet (7)

18 (3)

20 Self-employed detective (7,3)

21 Water (8)

22 Circumference (5)

25 Modernise (6)

26 Chant (6)

28 Spot on (4,5)

33 U-turn (8)

34 Die (6)

35 Desiring (7)

39 Scare (8)

40 Growing shoot (6)

41 Decisive defeat (4)

42 Provide food and drink (5)

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Discard (5) 46 Complete any unsettled details (3,2,5,4)

53 Confused skirmish (5)

56 Characteristic (5)

57 Spots (4)

58 Went quickly (6)

59 Companion in fun, recreation (8)

62 Candidate (7)

63 Flaw (6)

64 Ill will (8)

67 Moist cars (anag)(9)

69 Slender and elegant (6)

70 Wheedle (6)

74 Proportion (5)

75 Finished (8)

77 Nod off (4,6)

81 Writing instrument (3)

83 (7)

84 Sturdy (6)

85 Skilful (6)

86 Deep voice (4)

87 Fate (7)

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1 Inexpensive (5)

2 Discerns (anag)(8)

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4 Manage (3,2)

5 Microscopic (4)

6 Deep in thought (7)

7 Character, disposition (6)

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10 Slightly open (4)

11 Do away with (7)

12 Layers (6)

17 Naval vessel (10)

19 Announce (5)

23 Sweet on a stick (8)

24 Competitor (5)

25 Elevates morally or spiritually (7)

27 Front part (4)

29 Sudden increase (7)

30 Spurn (6)

31 Corresponds (6)

32 Explosive exhalation

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Snapshot (5) Vestige (5)

Jetty (4)

Money reserve (4) Police line (6) 19/4

45 elsewhere (5)

47 Hankering (4)

48 Futile (7)

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50 Beginning (5)

51 Raised (8)

52 Grave, serious (6)

53 Salad dressing (10)

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55 Visually offensive thing (7)

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(5)

66 Put up with (8)

68 Small long-handled pot (7)

69 Sovereign’s staff (7)

71 False front (6)

72 Work that continues a previously related story (6)

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76 Lying face down (5)

78 Pungent (5)

79 Sits for (5)

80 Connect (4)

82 Steel pin (4)

Very strange (5) Court document (4) Newspaper exclusive