THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic clues or quick, the answers are exactly the same. The Solution will appear in MONDAY’S PAPER.
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
12 Forgotten? That’s inconceivable (9-2) 13 So amazingly slim to embrace and supple (6) 14 Foreigner I caught is imprisoned by cops (6) 16 What brought about an improvement in relationships (4) 17 Relax and don’t be so ponderous! (7,2) 18 Fish, catching large number in the river (5) 19 Buy and sell to the ‘14’ (4) 20 The war’s complexity in the end becomes boring (5,4) 22 Funny clue about royal dosh (5) 23 Now ridiculously apt to take umbrage (2,7) 27 Is he a daft, silly fool? (7) 30 Desert the cause? What’s wrong with you! (6) 31 Does it create inflation in footwear? (4) 32 Get on the panel (5) 35 Turned crazy by shock (4) 36 Associate, returned, let take the blame (7) 38 Required half to be rewritten. Awful (4) 39 ‘A pursuit that’s beyond me,’ I interposed (7) 42 Agree to impose the entire half on the idiot (6) 45 Fashions that are not quite decorous (5) 46 Fed up again, took to one’s bed (7) 47 Only you? That makes sense! (4) 48 A whole lot of mothers and one son (4) 50 Moreover, most of the best went round the edge (7) 52 Did some investigating on one’s day off (5) 54 China produced lovely girls (6) 56 Report on again when you get back (7) 57 ‘Run’ in Morse code? (4) 59 Either delivers a reprimand or arrests (5,2) 61 Remunerates for bringing the rotisserie back (4) 64 She has a right to put in for a portion (5) 66 Spill the beans on William? (4) 67 Awfully tinny note in the number (6) 69 Likewise, was fast getting nowhere (4-3) 72 Do business with old currency. That’s typical (9) 73 Flaws in back brakes (5) 74 A cry that makes one feel better, for heaven’s sake! (4,5) 79 Drawer containing money: it may be fifty pounds (4) 81 ‘Good in the altogether’ may be accompanied by a wink (5) 82 Force to study, effort though it is (9) 83 May sound like a little child (4) 85 I set traps for fish (6) 86 Blocks the western borders (6) 87 Small enough to walk off with? (6-5)
DOWN
1 0.0254 of a metre? Smart child! (4) 2 Ran for about an hour. Could be worse (6) 3 The little male elephant is a fast mover (6) 4 Rag ‘1’, creating irritation (7) 5 By also climbing inside, loot (5) 6 Dejected, like an alcoholic deprived of alcohol? (10) 7 Apart from one group of players (5) 8 Such criminals as get only minimal sentences? (5-4) 9 Seems, from the tree within, spring is back (7) 10 Unfortunately a blast wiped out both ends (4) 11 The ship got the companion in earlier (8) 15 Guarantee runs out in mid-week (6) 21 Something that’s no longer done right (5) 24 Cut others roughly by a quarter (7) 25 Novice, having a need for break, rested (6) 26 Get up and go from haunted house! (6) 28 So bird has head of crane and tail of snipe (5) 29 A stop off to get specimen for zoo (3) 33 For me, is entering into contract (7) 34 Frank brought detectives round as well (6) 37 For part of year, is estimating increases (5) 40 Does it ponder about the hole it’s in? (5) 41 Quiet, rather ill-mannered and prim (7) 43 Extra mad! (5) 44 Fit non-drinker swallowing a pill (6) 46 Climb fast in the preliminary period (3-2) 49 A number went off outside and searched for (7) 51 How much you love your valuables? (6) 53 Said hello to Saul, out late, half cut (6) 55 Ready also, it is said, to knuckle down (3,2) 58 Specially chosen, is given, to carry, a tool (4-6) 60 Mate keeling over from drink (3) 62 The carpenter’s craft? (5) 63 Presses on — the bread’s cooked and sliced now (5,4) 65 Finding a b-bone in a hole is nasty (8) 68 Not I. No good at observing (6) 70 Changed the finale — made changes all round (7) 71 Ask whom about the Indians? (7) 75 Mean to get home: to go back east (6) 76 Don’t leave again. Am in flap (6) 77 Notice Daisy A is withdrawn and off colour (5) 78 Paid for small daughter also to enter (5) 80 Having made the bet, ring up (4) 84 Binds when I take the radio back outside (4)