Colossal Crossword
ACROSS
Hat worn at graduation… ( 11)
… and one associated with Sherlock Holmes ( 11) Moderately warm ( 5) County of Ireland ( 4) Concise and meaningful ( 5)
Circus performer ( 5) Loud explosion ( 4)
Large building of flats ( 5) Tusked Arctic mammal ( 6)
21 Worry ( 4)
23 Addition symbol ( 4)
25 Pretext ( 6)
28 Kitchen appliance, eg ( 7) 29 Plank under train rails ( 7) 32 Ice cream biscuit? ( 5)
33 Nip ( 5)
34 Art of paper- folding ( 7) 37 Foot rest
for a 93 Across ( 7)
39 Reusable spacecraft ( 7) 41 London’s river ( 6)
42 Tiff, quarrel ( 4)
44 Sunset ( 4)
46 Australian city ( 6)
49 Gossip ( 7)
50 Lump of butter ( 3)
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7
12 13 15
16 17 19 20 51 Small number ( 3)
53 Admiration ( 7)
55 Soup serving spoon ( 5) 56 Humble,
belittle ( oneself) ( 5)
57 Size of a gun barrel ( 7)
58 Teacher’s favourite? ( 3) 60 Spring month ( 3)
61 Lacking depth ( 7)
62 Prepare for an exam ( 6) 64 Optical glass ( 4)
66 Cast off leaves, eg ( 4)
67 Sharp, sour ( 6)
70 Crime against the state ( 7)
Pained expression ( 7) Laurence —,
Oscar winner for
1948’ s Hamlet ( 7)
Sister of the
Duchess of Cambridge ( 5) 77 Dull and uninteresting ( 5) 79 — Blake, illustrator ( 7)
81 Down payment ( 7)
84 Measure of medicine ( 6) 85 Write on a keyboard ( 4) 87 Running contest ( 4)
89 Cold season ( 6)
91 Demon ( 5)
92 Inner Hebrides island ( 4) 93 Equestrian ( 5) 71 73
75 95 Close, compact ( 5)
97 Layabout? ( 4)
98 Assertively masculine ( 5) 99 Cap from Scotland... ( 3- 1- 7) 100 … and one worn by a motorcyclist for safety ( 5, 6)
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Large parrot ( 5)
Meal ( 6)
Annual grass ( 3)
Piece of poetry ( 5) Hermit ( 7)
Talk about ( 7)
Do very well ( 5)
Top 10 hit for
Duran Duran ( 3)
Ship for transporting oil ( 6) Scamp ( 5)
Comic —,
Red Nose Day charity ( 6) Business intelligence ( 6)
21 Throw ( 5)
22 Sightseer ( 7)
23 Glad ( 7)
24 Smudge, daub ( 5)
26 Quick, rapid ( 5)
27 Small orchard ( 5) 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9
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11 14
18 30 Put to practical use ( 5)
31 Legally dubious? ( 5)
35 Two pints ( 5)
36 Rigid, inflexible ( 5)
38 Knitted face covering ( 9) 40 Brief piece of music between the sections of another performance ( 9) 43 Agricultural yield ( 7)
45 Peculiar ( 7)
47 Bonnie —,
husky Welsh vocalist ( 5) 48 Put on clothes ( 5)
49 Ad —, for a
particular purpose only ( 3) 50 Vim and vigour ( 3)
52 Route ( 3)
54 Haul behind ( 3)
59 Tall building ( 5)
60 En —, all together ( 5)
62 — Fiennes, movie star ( 5) 63 Natural
sweetener ( 5)
65 — and Son, sitcom ( 7)
66 Eavesdropper ( 7)
68 Voluptuous ( 5)
69 Glasgow river ( 5)
72 Get on ( a horse) ( 5)
74 Speaking tone ( 5)
76 Toxin ( 6)
78 Doorway ( 6) 80 Book for jotting in ( 7) 81 Turkish —,
jelly- like confection ( 7) 82 Fireside ( 6)
83 Involuntary
movement ( 6)
84 Move aimlessly ( 5)
86 Remove
by cleansing ( 5)
88 Thespian ( 5)
90 Automaton ( 5)
94 College fellow ( 3)
96 Talk idly? ( 3) Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror