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 13 Exercising — one’s ability to reason? (7,3) 14 Dog, stray, found in bank (7) 15 Sign of habitation in the building? Come off it! (6) 16 Impersonation that starts funnily, with a smile (6) 17 Plan to fill a gap in clothing (7) 18 Suit and ties distinguish each of them from others (5) 19 Reckons they may be responsible for hangover (4) 20 A boy’s name is favourite. Then ‘Elizabeth’ (5) 21 Little dog lost ball in golf club (5) 22 Not feeling well, parking inside, fast (6) 23 Housing a champion animal (5) 28 Girl with plenty of sparkle (7) 30 Meant to change silver lining to fuchsia (7) 33 Stopping silly ass boarding it, once moving (9) 36 Sound alarm (6) 38 Fuss pot losing ring will take on (5) 39 Figure the girl is on form (5) 40 Contradict on two points: get a revision (6) 42 Curt ‘Go right in’ (5) 43 Jack is a friend to many (7) 44 Why so terrible near the perimeter? (6) 46 Agrees son is holding daughter back (4) 49 From buffet, a foreign cheese (4) 51 Makes changes in a manuscript: the last part (6) 53 Is fool to turn on, in a rage (7) 55 Support British people (5) 59 Entails removing fourth letter and making anagram, mum (6) 60 Avenue you motor along? (5) 61 She is elegance personified (5) 62 Left one with Cleo, playing outside (the dog) (6) 63 No longer had feelings for and stopped corresponding (4,5) 65 Fool with whom she swapped attire (7) 66 Is one’s informant on plants (7) 70 A female copper (5) 71 About now attaining new fame (6) 73 The TT’s transport? (5) 75 How cold it is when the wind bites? (5) 80 It should, every second, bang (4) 82 The beer is put in the passage (5) 83 Toys. Very little toy guns (7) 84 Draw a second boat beside (6) 85 Don’t be silly! Stalactites don’t, stalagmites do! (4,2) 86 As you’d expect, a turn off to a learner (7) 87 Was proud of having mastered the art of wearing stilts? (6,4) QUICK CLUES ACROSS 13 Deducing (7,3) 14 Dog (7) 15 Get off (6) 16 Smile coyly (6) 17 Clothing (7) 18 Cards suit (5) 19 Adds up (4) 20 Male saint (5) 21 Golf club (5) 22 Fast (6) 23 Animal (5) 28 Glass (7) 30 Fuchsia (7) 33 Stopping (9) 36 Disconcert (6) 38 Take on (5) 39 Form (5) 40 Contradict (6) 42 Brief (5) 43 Sailor (7) 44 Cause (6) 46 Agrees (4) 49 Greek cheese (4) 51 Changes (6) 53 Rage (7) 55 Prop up (5) 59 Mute (6) 60 Avenue (5) 61 Elegance (5) 62 Sheepdog (6) 63 Didn’t correspond (4,5) 65 Attire (7) 66 Informs on (7) 70 Coin (5) 71 Fame (6) 73 Cart (5) 75 Chilly (5) 80 Bang (4) 82 Passage (5) 83 Toys with (7) 84 Draw (6) 85 Become adult (4,2) 86 Normal (7) 87 Was proud (6,4)
DOWN 1 Tame (6) 2 Captains (8) 3 Trap (5) 4 Anxious (7) 5 Strand (6) 6 Second (5) 7 Drafts (6) 8 Married (7) 9 Unfounded (10) 10 Central part (5) 11 Pomade (8) 12 Attempt (4) 24 Saw (7) 25 Challenged (5) 26 Part (7) 27 Silly (7) 29 Fish (5) 31 Unaccom- panied (5) 32 Instant (4) 34 Contrive (6) 35 Scandinavian (4) 37 Mayonnaise sauce (7) 41 Office (7) 45 Revealed (6) 47 Comic strip (7) 48 Mischievous (7) 50 Incident (7) 52 Podium (4) 54 Slim (5) 56 Offence (5) 57 Touch (4) 58 Twenty (5) 60 Diminishing (10) 64 Temper (4,4) 67 Dagger (8) 68 Frankness (7) 69 Fragments (7) 72 Character (6) 74 Permits (6) 76 Preserve (6) 77 Pants (5) 78 Male goat (5) 79 Very pale (5) 81 Fast-running animal (4) DOWN 1 Figure in code I broke, mastered easily (6) 2 Small fish or big fish on board! (8) 3 Answer up again ‘It is a trap’ (5) 4 Anxious when the word ‘ire’ is misspelled in (7) 5 By the way ‘item of jewellery’ is ‘pearls’ (6) 6 Second ball goes to the right (5) 7 Tries unsuccessfully to stick to the point, as one drafts (6) 8 Taking it to church, he’d been about to get married (7) 9 Like one whose claims to be a landowner are confounded? (10) 10 The trunk goes in there (5) 11 It’s greasy. Are people in it not slipping? (8) 12 Try to find another word for ‘iridescent’ (4) 24 ‘Pied’, or is it ‘espied’? (7) 25 Challenged father about, again (5) 26 Part of court one is running to cover (7) 27 Because I figure it’s ridiculous (7) 29 Char swimming round inside (that’s a fish) (5) 31 Nearly all single. Without escorts (5) 32 How long it takes to fill a box, when in form? (4) 34 Mean to cut a key to enter and contrive to (6) 35 And translated to English by a Scandinavian (4) 37 On flan, are having sauce (7) 41 No particular rank? (7) 45 Splashing dosh around, we revealed (6) 47 From Corot, an extraordinary drawing (7) 48 No thug imprisoned in it is converted and that’s bad (7) 50 Bit of a performance when I got in so deep, floundering (7) 52 Standing, now, is on the podium (4) 54 Slim by spring again (5) 56 Credit me with catching one in misdeed (5) 57 Touch the f-fish (4) 58 Escort out all but the last of twenty (5) 60 Getting rid of wrinkles or making them fewer (10) 64 In temper having done wrong stupidly, won’t admit (4,4) 67 Will inflict damage if, improperly, it’s allowed to (8) 68 Hard one to pen, in truth (7) 69 Bits are more truncated, less convoluted (7) 72 After an upset, going to pieces, true to character (6) 74 See laws changed, to get around sanctions (6) 76 Preserve from trouble (6) 77 Moving pass key over from pants (5) 78 Next, bringing in sick goat (5) 79 An entrapped female, very pale (5) 81 Are hour ahead of a very fast mover (4)