GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Turned around on axis (7)

4 Challengers (10)

9 Alleged (7)

13 Nucleus (4)

14 Large cucurbit (6) 15 Swot up on (6)

16 Intricate (7)

19 From corner to corner (10)

20 Pleasure-seeker (8) 21 Lined chart (5)

24 Ousts (6)

25 Wayward (6)

27 Double twice (9)

32 Tired out (8)

33 Bed cover (6)

34 Pretended (7)

38 Invention (8)

39 Open to all (6)

40 Tiny particle (4)

41 Advise (5)

42 Blood giver (5)

45 Engaged in a task beyond abilities (3,2,4,5) 52 Touches down (5) 55 Narrow band (5)

56 Meat from cow (4) 57 Stinging plant (6)

58 Wobbly (8)

61 Hereditary (7)

62 Vitamin deficiency disease (6)

63 In an inescapable position (8)

66 Old laundry accessory (9)

68 Going to the polls (6)

69 Pocket money (6) 73 Go get (5)

74 Call time (anag)(8) 76 Setting loose (10)

81 Absconder (7)

82 Debacle (6)

83 Wild feline (6)

84 Outdoor fund-raising function (4)

85 Mocking remark (7) 86 Unvarying (10)

87 Passed on (7) DOWN

1 Dashed (5)

2 Freshwater turtle (8)

3 Plays (6)

4 Christmas song (5)

5 Tidings (4)

6 Hearing distance (7)

7 Split up (6)

8 Siren (anag)(5)

10 Weaving apparatus (4)

11 Put in danger (7)

12 Free from a liability (6)

17 Mail centre head (10)

18 Stage whisper (5)

22 Manacle (8)

23 Taken in (5)

24 Tempted (7)

26 Decisive defeat (4) 28 Ignorant of (7)

29 Paid male lover (6) 30 Builds (6)

31 Got married to (6) 33 Hairdresser’s premises (5)

35 Flat round cheese (5) 36 Tight-fisted (4)

37 Left at sea (4) 43 Beginning (6)

44 Oily fruit (5)

46 Second-hand (4)

47 Police member (7) 48 Proprietors (6)

49 Diary note (5)

50 Fragile (8)

51 Stalked (6)

52 Printed stationery (10)

53 Undiluted (4)

54 Horizon (7)

59 Arousing suspicion (5)

60 Broad smile (4)

64 Inn (5)

65 Completely (8)

67 Very old (7)

68 Savage (7)

70 Mythical woman with hair of serpents (6) 71 Shuts (6)

72 French painter (6) 75 Spanish friend (5) 77 Bungling (5)

78 Gluttony (5)

79 Admirers (4)

80 Mast (4)