JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Young sheep (5)

4 Game on a diamond (8)

9 Four score (6)

14 Cut back (5)

15 Reach a critical point where the result could go either way (4,2,3,7)

17 Bamboo-eater (5)

18 Frozen water (3)

19 Running after (7)

20 Hanging about (9)

21 Fused together (6)

24 Lure a girl (anag) (9)

25 Insurance document

26 Chess piece (6)

29 Capable of being reached (10)

31 Be incorrect (3)

32 Draw off (6)

33 Sense (4)

35 Tree (3)

37 Feeble (4)

39 Conkers (9)

40 Usual (9)

41 Path (5)

42 Armoured glove (8)

47 51 Sediment (5)

55 Soon (9)

56 Ran away (9)

58 Hinged barrier (4)

59 Cancelled (3)

60 Medicine (4)

61 Leave (6)

62 Self-image (3)

63 Unwillingness (10)

66 Wooden hammer (6)

67 Short and thick (6)

69 Area for building and repairing ships (9)

72 Artist’s workshop (6)

73 Stand for (9)

75 contestant (7)

77 Pair (3)

80 Well known (5)

81 Accept a deserved punishment (4,4,8)

82 Grossly overweight (5)

83 Middle (6)

84 In diesel (anag) (8)

85 Stage whisper (5)

DOWN

2 Indifferent (9)

3 Counterfeit (5)

5 Throb (4)

6

7 Extremely agitated or angry (3,7,2)

8 Of the moon (5)

9 Everlasting (7)

10 Spaces between (4)

11 Painful to touch (6)

12 Hot and sticky (5)

13 Sale document (7)

14 Cushioning (7)

16 Having no intelligible meaning (11)

22 Threefold (6)

23 Mountaineer’s tool (3,4)

24 Pickling cucumber (7)

25 Erupts (anag) (6)

27 Thrown bomb (7)

28

30 Dines (4)

32 Smudge (5)

34 True (5)

36 Sleep lightly (4)

38 Age (3) 42 Stared open-mouthed (5)

43 Not uniform (7)

44

45 One or the other (6)

46 Bus terminus (5)

48 Plain (11)

49 Alms-seekers (7)

50 Allow (3)

51 Succession of hereditary rulers (7)

52 Without risk (6)

53 Very well behaved (2,4,2,4)

54 Acidic (4)

57 Hold-ups (6)

64 Hen cadets (anag) (9)

65 Authentic (7)

66 Speak of (7)

68 Respire (7)

70 Jell (7)

71 Small (6)

72 Not intoxicated (5)

74 Combs (5)

76 Shoe-ties (5)

78 Check and correct (4)

79 Warning sign (4)