Colossal Crossword
ACROSS
Hotel booking… ( 11)
… and someone who can arrange it for you ( 6, 5)
Druid, eg ( 5)
Optimum ( 4)
Tend, care for ( 5)
Brag ( 5)
Association, society ( 4)
19 Once more ( 5)
20 Gratitude ( 6)
21 Wallop, thump ( 4)
23 Brief TV or film extract ( 4) 25 Beer mixed
with lemonade ( 6)
28 Financial hardship ( 7)
29 Upper- case letter ( 7)
32 Drug derived
from poppies ( 5)
33 Helicopter part ( 5)
34 Medical dressing ( 7)
37 Emerging from sleep ( 7) 39 Unwell on a boat? ( 7)
41 Yellow cage bird ( 6)
42 Small arrow ( 4)
44 Engrave ( 4)
46 Mend one’s ways ( 6)
49 Wariness ( 7)
50 Female pig ( 3) 1 7
12 13 15 16 17
Pumpernickel grain ( 3) Journey’s end? ( 7)
— town, abandoned settlement ( 5)
56 Sacred water lily ( 5)
57 Embossed writing system for the visually impaired ( 7)
58 Until now ( 3)
60 Popular sandwich meat ( 3) 61 Unauthorised absence
from school ( 7)
62 Archive ( 6)
64 Chimney passage ( 4)
66 Ladder’s step ( 4)
67 Turn sharply ( 6)
70 Defraud ( 7)
71 Own ( 7)
73 Emotional upheaval ( 7)
75 Polite ( 5)
77 Witch’s incantation ( 5)
79 Driving permit ( 7)
81 Grave, solemn ( 7)
84 Flour manufacturer ( 6)
85 Storm- force wind ( 4)
87 Read ( a bar code) ( 4)
89 Tournament prize ( 6)
91 Frenzied state ( 5)
92 Circular metal percussion instrument ( 4) Professorship ( 5) 51 53 55
93 95 Chevy —,
US comedian ( 5)
97 Bill of fare ( 4)
98 Muslim religion ( 5)
99 Pleasure vessel ( 6, 5)
100 Cultural tourist activity ( 11)
DOWN
Automaton ( 5)
Disappear ( 6)
Craggy hill ( 3)
Jesse —, famed Olympian ( 5) Arrogant ( 7)
World’s deepest ocean ( 7) Renegade ( 5)
By way of ( 3)
Most recent ( 6)
Brown or grey cat with distinctive darker stripes ( 5)
14 Deep- fried prawn dish ( 6) 18 Pointed surgical knife ( 6) 21 Wide ( 5)
22 Gather ( crops) ( 7)
23 Baked treat ( 7)
24 Practical joke ( 5)
26 Gin mixer ( 5)
27 Traffic light colour ( 5)
30 Quarrel ( 5) 1 2 3 4
5 6 8 9 10 11
Idealistic vision ( 5) Brilliantly coloured parrot ( 5)
36 Clergyman ( 5)
38 Cover against financial loss whilst on holiday? ( 9)
40 Keepsakes from a trip ( 9) 43 Liquor ( 7)
45 Ship’s commander ( 7)
47 Heavenly being ( 5)
48 Hindu hereditary class ( 5) 49 Young bear ( 3)
50 Enclosure for pigs ( 3)
52 A Nightmare on — Street,
classic horror movie ( 3) 54 Produce ( eggs) ( 3)
59 Shy ( 5)
60 Convenient ( 5)
62 US cattle farm ( 5)
63 Answer ( 5)
65 Distilled extract ( 7)
66 Profits ( 7)
68 Celtic language ( 5)
69 Praise highly ( 5)
72 Playground fixture ( 5)
74 Grieve ( 5)
76 Stringed instrument ( 6) 78 Pass, expire ( 6)
80 Diplomat’s
headquarters? ( 7) 31 35 81 Uncomplaining ( 7)
82 Ancient shrine where prophecies were told ( 6)
83 Strain, pressure ( 6)
84 Sorcery ( 5)
86 Sizable ( 5)
88 Spiky desert plants ( 5) 90 Neil —, Canadian
singer- songwriter ( 5)
94 Muhammad —,
late boxing champion ( 3) 96 Volcanic dust ( 3)
Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror