GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Secret agents (5) 4 Stranded (4,4,3,3) 11 Sandhills (5) 14 Group of ships (5) 15 Flared trousers (11) 16 Detested (8) 19 Whistle rope (7) 20 Competitor (5) 21 Prompting (9) 24 Tough body tissue (9) 26 Positive balance (6) 27 Holds up (6) 31 Chamfered edge (5) 32 Part of a whole (8) 34 Favourable or propitious (10) 38 Progress reversal (7) 39 Copper-tin alloy (6) 40 Hang around idly (6) 41 Sweetheart (4) 42 Fractured (7) 45 Carthorse breed (10) 50 Wished for (7) 54 Well-ventilated (4) 55 First batter (6) 56 Boundaries (6) 57 Tropical bat (7) 60 Island off Africa (10) 61 Energetic (8) 62 Huge person (5) 65 Red fruit (6) 66 Invisible (6) 67 Velocity (9) 72 Scientific star study (9) 73 Outer loaf (5) 74 Not lawful (7) 79 Not genuine (8) 80 Not subject to rule or controls (11) 81 Take away (5) 82 Ointment (5) 83 Go down quickly (4,4,1,5) 84 Direct (5)

DOWN

2 Column (6) 3 Foe (5) 5 Balanced (4) 6 Having a conversation (7) 7 Weather map line (6) 8 Despise (4) 9 Enumerated (8) 10 Gives up (6) 11 Addiction (10) 12 Bird’s construction (4) 13 Shunting tracks (7) 17 Fireplace (5) 18 Very small, petite (10) 22 Kudos (5) 23 One deliberately wrecking (8) 25 Bitter (7) 26 Own up to (7) 28 Thin covering layer (6) 29 Autographed (6) 30 Fan out (6) 33 Atoll material (5) 35 Marine animal (5) 36 Face spots (4) 37 Jumping insect (4) 42 Amulet (5) 43 Shortened (8) 44 Overthrow (6) 45 Holding (10) 46 Unit of length (4) 47 Make more animated (7) 48 Harm (6) 49 Afterwards (5) 51 Dutch cheese (4) 52 Mars (7) 53 Chore (6) 58 Pushy (10) 59 Mixed party drink (5) 63 Battery connection (8) 64 Slope (5) 65 Framework (7) 68 Parvenu (7) 69 Disputes (6) 70 Shock (6) 71 Body shape (6) 75 Nitwit (5) 76 Throw (4) 77 Hard wood (4) 78 Enthusiastic (4)