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 Left in no doubt fog has totally lifted (5,5) 14 Coach your tootsy got into (7) 15 Found Art Deco almost all ridiculous (6) 16 Scrub and c-clean madly (6) 17 Part of little book that’s an advertisement (7) 18 Punch ball to music (5) 19 Take home after becoming engaged (4) 20 Made out a figure on inscribed piece of metal (5) 21 Picture showing some poinsettia (5) 22 With police in pursuit, scuttled off (6) 23 Part of trunk that bulges when it expands (5) 28 Sounds like a title for a story (7) 30 One, so in arrears, set apart from the others (7) 33 Can they rouse the rabble in a shake? (9) 36 Lump of old mash with chop (6) 38 Charge before holding in charge (5) 39 Making obvious I intend to trap (5) 40 Take from and reduce to tears again? (6) 42 Only very little gravy for her (5) 43 Wear for female physicians? (7) 44 Said some overbalanced (6) 46 How many said no to Angela Merkel (4) 49 Determined, be not disheartened (4) 51 Amounts to, for children, about a pound (6) 53 Cold day. Isn’t at gymnastics (7) 55 Doctor the sick and make well (5) 59 Group of friends forming a band (6) 60 Love entanglement centring round one girl (5) 61 Is foremost in accessories for dogs (5) 62 Run after local, mad to catch (6) 63 Easy win for Mrs Prat (5,4) 65 Occasionally, when I’m in jittery state (2,5) 66 Say mom, broke, came into a little money (7) 70 Stop cold. See a crash (5) 71 Apprehensive, from far off give assistance (6) 73 Something that blooms for a day (5) 75 The saying “A day at a time” (5) 80 Concoct lie about. Very wicked (4) 82 Was his poetry actually the work of Ronald (5) 83 Did he lie when sending news back about space? (7) 84 Or, covered in dirt, returned sweltering (6) 85 Inducement that makes sense (6) 86 For once, I mean to work: to study (7) 87 Hold good to this day, in an impasse (10)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS ACROSS
13 In no doubt (5,5) 14 Sports shoe (7) 15 Found (6) 16 Delete (6) 17 Advertising material (7) 18 Dance (5) 19 Be paid (4) 20 Award (5) 21 Small picture (5) 22 Sour (6) 23 Central part (5) 28 Story (7) 30 Set apart (7) 33 Rabble-rousers (9) 36 Lump (6) 38 Cost (5) 39 Obvious (5) 40 Take away (6) 42 Coin (5) 43 Frocks (7) 44 Spoken (6) 46 Number (4) 49 Crooked (4) 51 Amounts to (6) 53 Remote (7) 55 Bore hole (5) 59 Ring (6) 60 Tree (5) 61 Is in front (5) 62 Nab (6) 63 Quick chess win (5,4) 65 Occasionally (2,5) 66 Remark (7) 70 Stop (5) 71 Scared (6) 73 Flower (5) 75 Saying (5) 80 Wicked (4) 82 British poet (5) 83 Soldier (7) 84 Very hot (6) 85 Motive (6) 86 Pore over (7) 87 Complete stop (10)
DOWN
1 Merciful (6) 2 Not legato (8) 3 Weighing device (5) 4 Diminution (7) 5 Make (6) 6 Compartment (5) 7 Subject (6) 8 Immediate (7) 9 Fascinated by (8,2) 10 Crouch (5) 11 Tie up (4,4) 12 Dress (4) 24 Endeavoured (7) 25 Photos (5) 26 Someone slumbering (7) 27 Alarm (7) 29 Near (5) 31 Omits (5) 32 Variety (4) 34 Mettle (6) 35 Track event (4) 37 Maniac (7) 41 Crossbreed (7) 45 Exile (6) 47 Cascades (7) 48 Lost (7) 50 Serial instalment (7) 52 Den (4) 54 Business (5) 56 Be taught (5) 57 Repose (4) 58 Thespian (5) 60 Not permissible (3,2,5) 64 Apathetic (8) 67 Tone down (8) 68 Deny (7) 69 Austere (7) 72 Task force (6) 74 Resist (6) 76 Interrogates (6) 77 Black (5) 78 Linger anxiously (5) 79 Preliminary drawing (5) 81 Competed (4)
DOWN
1 Kind to chap who’s been put in the shade (6) 2 So includes funny cat act with disjointed music (8) 3 Will it tell you how much a fish weighs? (5) 4 Getting job after month in recession (7) 5 Make for a Mediterranean island to hide in (6) 6 The compartment isn’t lacking in, at all (5) 7 What’s wrong with the substance? (6) 8 Brown isn’t about to be beaten – very fast (7) 9 Using as one’s pub and being enthralled by (8,2) 10 Put an end to, catching ball for duck (5) 11 Tie up to keep from eating? (4,4) 12 Don is all but exhausted (4) 24 Had done one’s best but vine’s crept right back in (7) 25 Reminders of holidays, perhaps, or breaks (5) 26 Something that’s dropped off on the railway track (7) 27 Left in treats, out to surprise (7) 29 Intimate, it’s neck and neck (5) 31 Leaves out to put rubbish in (5) 32 Kind and gentle, yet otherwise on the exterior (4) 34 Tears up. It shows mettle (6) 35 Event at Ascot, perhaps – Royal one (4) 37 Nutcase, at one, interrupts unfinished lunch (7) 41 With my French, Greek and the Spanish elements, a mixture (7) 45 To exile – to outlaw – is hard (6) 47 Hordes of, before morning’s rest break (7) 48 Slim, sent off to get assistance, got lost (7) 50 Part of serial where dope is led astray by note (7) 52 Home of animal with peculiar curly tail (4) 54 I got off it, dear. Jammed in traffic (5) 56 Nearly, not quite all, assembled to take lessons (5) 57 Take a break again at half past (4) 58 He appears to work but he’s only pretending (5) 60 As a lay person again, it is not appropriate (3,2,5) 64 Enervated, is unable to call the roll (8) 67 Way to put speed on – or to lessen (8) 68 Deny I nag dreadfully, for instance (7) 69 Fight to beat. That’s simple (7) 72 Having rallied, I led soldiers in Task force (6) 74 Resist, at work, having to sit beside (6) 76 Questions about fifty silly girls (6) 77 “Wood” is new English boy admitted (5) 78 Fly, taking an hour, across (5) 79 Tack to the top of your drawing (5) 81 Competed. Incompetently videotape start (4)