JUMBO CROSSWORD

Solution in Monday’s paper

ACROSS

1. Momentum (7)

5. Stop (5)

8. Recite (4,3)

12. Comfort (4)

13. Public house (5)

15. Danger sign (3,4)

17. Lash out (5)

19. Colony insect (3)

20. Auction item (3)

21. Measurement for precious stone (5)

22. Contrary (8)

23. Covetous (7)

25. Complex (9)

28. Avaricious (6)

31. Foreign (5)

35. Epoch (4)

36. Showing wear and tear (5)

37. Writer (6)

39. Happily (5)

40. Complain (colloq) (5)

43. Submissive (7)

45. Polynesian garland (3)

46. Strike (3)

47. Crush underfoot (7)

49. Trunk (5)

52. Intense (5)

53. Soup dish (6)

54. Scottish word for child (5)

55. Turf used as fuel (4)

57. Give (5)

60. Worn out, threadbare (6)

64. Aware (9)

66. Waterfall (7)

68. Valuer (8)

69. Of short duration (5)

72. Possesses (3)

73. Home for a swine (3)

75. Unpiloted aircraft (5)

76. Genuine (7)

78. Smallest amount (5)

79. Stylish (4)

80. Precisely (7)

81. Woodland goddess (5)

82. Colossal (7)

DOWN

1. Bury (6)

2. Flat unleavened bread (4)

3. Slope (4)

4. Sequence (6)

5. Corpse (7)

6. Ocean (3)

7. Keen vision (5,3)

8. Hold back (8)

9. Large-scale, impressive (4)

10. Concluded (4)

11. Insincere praise (8)

14. Motor (6)

16. Big (5)

18. Duo (4)

22. Play on words (3)

24. None (3)

26. Exterior (5)

27. Quality (9)

29. British peer (4)

30. Information (4)

31. Jargon, slang (5)

32. Fake (9)

33. Negative response (3)

34. Pilfered (5)

38. Final words (abbr) (4)

41. Be mistaken (3)

42. You (archaic) (4)

43. Horse (5)

44. Make corrections (5)

48. Uncontrollable fear (5)

50. Solemn promise (4)

51. Pierce (4)

52. One, some or all (3)

54. Spine (8)

55. Prediction (8)

56. Hired killer (8)

58. Stir up (6)

59. Young boy (3)

61. Fire-raising (5)

62. Beg (7)

63. Distant (3)

65. Prophet (4)

66. Logical and persuasive (6)

67. Foreign (6)

70. Thought (4)

71. Stronghold (4)

73. Aperture (4)

74. Chat (4)

77. Frigid (3)