GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Hotel? One’s a sight virtually when busy in peak tourist period (4,6)
14 Artist with musical instrument ignoring new Italian food (7)
15 Like better match official appearing in person (6)
16 Root vegetable put in ground around river (6)
17 View work produced by lowly follower short of money (7)
18 Endless credit for manufacturing apple-based drink (5)
19 Part of plan developed for country (4)
20 A seat is vandalised making one bewildered (2,3)
21 Paper with no time for contentious matter (5)
22 Unique type making joke on holiday (3-3)
23 Loose container guy emptied (5)
28 Pass net that’s been reviewed for suitability (7)
30 Encumber first of blokes with dog now needing training (3,4)
33 Avoid making a loss in holiday period still (5,4)
36 Turn aside and be of use around onset of winter (6)
38 Substitute doctor rewrote most of column (5)
39 Lloyd crashed wheeled trolley (5)
40 Nonsense followed by a wide or loud laugh (6)
42 Nervous priest lacking the ultimate in holiness? That’s nonsense (5)
43 Drink before call proves not harmonious (7)
44 A cub’s excited about a counting frame (6)
46 Tragic figure, it’s said, has lecherous look (4)
49 Find Olwen regularly being lazy (4)
51 Love scope to get citrus fruit (6)
53 Asian language adopted among outsiders in struggling party (7)
55 Squander a stew after cooking (5)
59 Shelter in part of a cinema? (6)
60 Element of fibbing obviously in indoor game (5)
61 Loans for renovating drawing room (5)
62 In church, ordinary plaything is put back for wolf-like dog (6)
63 Get rid of female comic, a troublemaker (9)
65 Joke about name facing trouble in comeback? It makes one bitter (7)
66 Fantastic poet and writer about island is a classic example (7)
70 Pry in post office about source of stamps from the East (5)
71 Remove obstruction from a French wooden shoe (6)
73 Allegation from institute probing very reticent type (5)
75 Storm by one dark wood (5) 80 Pull shown by director before student festivity (4)
82 Place offering refreshment in heat for Manchester-based group (5)
83 Archdeacon is given number on return for deer’s meat (7)
84 A bus misdirected on road? That’s ridiculous (6)
85 Recent renovation shorn of trappings in headquarters (6)
86 Opposite way to characterise poet’s work? (7)
87 Another in work clutching book obsessively (2,3,5)
DOWN
1 Short period with switch at end in slow dance (6)
2 Accidentally come across martial arts actor once in play (6,2)
3 Lively exercise by parish priest overlooking yard (5)
4 Support European partner (7)
5 A speaker in Rome’s in its original place (2,4)
6 Brother requires help for plait of hair (5)
7 Pioneering woman taken with awkward son nonetheless (4,2)
8 Victor for all to see in awful chore has ticket to buy goods (7)
9 Forbid pyre created for an eagle, say (4,2,4)
10 Place for beauty treatment about to become surplus (5)
11 Companion inside? (8)
12 Signify chaps touring area (4)
24 Small bomb posing terrible danger close to site (7)
25 A second animal in a coop drained of colour? (5)
26 Unyielding U.S. lawyer followed by staff in a trial’s opening (7)
27 Mischievous desire to retain poor gag (7)
29 Strength shown by prisoner with little sign of hesitation (5)
31 Wild crocus wanting sun? It has to happen (5)
32 Paddle in shallow adeptly (4)
34 A top U.S. city raised llama-like animal (6)
35 Insincerely smooth Latin accommodated in Gibraltar (4)
37 Tourist employee allowed front of exhibition to be full (7)
41 Spanish composer clearly devoid of substance? That’s incorrect notion (7)
45 Celt in convertible is a customer (6)
47 Metal workshop discovered by railway (7)
48 Period of time in which one gets extremely short, shrill sound (7)
50 Drawing, say, lacking energy and power in a manner of speaking (7)
52 Medal disappearing lacking in essential character (4)
54 Norway only manufactured fabric (5)
56 Edited tome about first sign of this outward symbol (5)
57 Couple of notes required for settee (4)
58 Policeman in the Home Counties in range (5)
60 Deranged family is cause of slip-up? (6,4)
64 Draw out scandal affecting a space entrepreneur? (8)
67 Euro bets going awry certainly (2,2,4)
68 Use live broadcast? It’s difficult to find (7)
69 Tiny dig that’s damaged self-respect (7)
72 Rule over golf during November (6) 74 Learner with noise treated wound (6)
76 Scandinavian dressed in cords mostly (6)
77 Strongly desire former soldier to support firm (5)
78 Dilapidated car missing front produces vexed feeling (5)
79 Trainee traced with difficulty after leaving rear of foyer (5)
81 Offensive smell from coats of rare elk (4)