Colossal Crossword

ACROSS

1 Automatic payment from an account… (6, 5) 7 … and the amount left (4, 7)

12 Glitter (5)

13 Finding —, family film (4) 15 San —, Californian port (5) 16 Large lorry (5)

17 Sign of tiredness? (4) 19 First public performance (5)

20 Sell to the consumer (6) 21 Rinse (4)

23 Period of illness (4) 25 Source of prophecies (6) 28 Baffle (7)

29 Whirling windstorm (7) 32 As, because (5)

33 The Man from —,

1960s TV series (5)

34 Pope (7)

37 Closest (7)

39 Improve, enhance (7) 41 Formulate, work out (6) 42 Barbecue nugget (4) 44 Large weighty book (4) 46 Elate (6)

49 Long-winded, prolix (7) 50 Shade of a colour (3) 51 Distress signal (1, 1, 1) 53 Tombstone inscription (7) 55 Tend to (a fire) (5) 56 Vladimir —, Russian president (5) 57 Prospers (7) 58 Cleaning implement (3) 60 By way of (3) 61 Downy yellow fruit (7) 62 Drink made from beans (6) 64 Self-righteous individual (4) 66 Garden hut (4) 67 Truthful (6)

70 Poison (7)

71 Cut short (7) 73 Unyielding, determined (7) 75 Mount —, biblical peak (5) 77 Surrey racecourse (5) 79 Lose hope (7) 81 Decorative design (7)

84 Meadow flower (6) 85 Bunch of hair held together at the base (4) 87 Skin eruption (4) 89 Ridiculous (6) 91 Molar, eg (5) 92 — Edmonds, TV presenter (4) 93 Sing in a soft low tone (5) 95 Boring tool (5) 97 Trudge (4) 98 Tree’s knotty protuberance (5) 99 Cheque stub (11)

100 Child’s allowance (6, 5)

DOWN

1 Currency unit of Algeria (5)

2 Walk unsteadily like an infant (6) 3 Christmas —, 24 December (3) 4 Jeremy —, actor (5) 5 Legendary bird that burns and then rises from the ashes (7) 6 Investigation into a death (7)

8 Historic Texas siege site (5)

9 Fox cub (3)

10 Ship’s mooring device (6)

11 — Wise, comedy icon (5) 14 Movement (6)

18 Cold, freezing? (6)

21 Crop (5)

22 Cooperative, obliging (7) 23 Low-ranking noble (7)

24 English

Royal House (5) 26 Questioned (5) 27 Samuel —, diarist (5) 30 Rabbit cage (5)

31 Oyster gem (5)

35 Tequila plant? (5)

36 Naomi —, The Impossible actress (5)

38 Withdrawal in excess of one’s

7 Across (9)

40 Large-scale investor (9)

43 Halloween month (7) 45 Blunder (7)

47 Untidy (5)

48 Relating to the kidney (5)

49 Levy on commodities (1, 1, 1)

50 Edge of a piece of cloth (3)

52 Belgian town (3)

54 Some Like It —, comedy (3)

59 Sheriff’s gang (5)

60 Boast (5)

62 Abyss, gorge (5) 63 Charlton Heston epic (2, 3)

65 Dashing and chivalrous (7)

66 Disperse (7)

68 Frequently (5)

69 Digit of the hand (5) 72 Midlands river (5)

74 Walk in military formation (5) 76 — Kidman, movie star (6) 78 Follow-up (6)

80 Spring back (7)

81 Land used for livestock (7) 82 Nursery (6)

83 Cash holder (6) 84 Doubting type (5) 86 Mushrooms (5) 88 Relating to sound (5) 90 Unreliable, tricky? (5) 94 — chance, slight possibility (3)

96 Squid’s defence (3)