Herald on Sunday

GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Sword (7)

4 Catch sight of (4,4,2) 9 Plummeting (7)

13 Animal skin (4)

14 Planet (6)

15 Delicately pretty (6) 16 Abbreviate (7)

19 Overwhelme­d with grief or shock (10)

20 Logical (8)

21 Waste drain (5)

24 Plates (6)

25 Peaceful (6)

27 Coarse fabric (9)

32 Adventure (8)

33 Cleric (6)

34 Yellowish food additive (7)

38 Wizard (8)

39 Watercours­e (6)

40 Manner of walking (4)

41 Diaphanous (5)

42 Resided (5)

45 Quite crazy (2,3,2,1,6)

52 Ability (5)

55 City transport (5)

56 Company (4)

57 Option (6)

58 Charge less than (a competitor) (8)

61 Root vegetable (7) 62 Except on the condition that (6)

63 Ready (8)

66 Constantly recurring (9) 68 Impudent (6)

69 Greek city (6)

73 Ski run (5)

74 Lack of feeling (8) 76 Let down (10)

81 Theft (7)

82 Type of hat (6)

83 Confront boldly (6) 84 Pack away (4)

85 Romanced (7)

86 Questions (10)

87 Convulsive shake (7)

DOWN

1 Managed (5)

2 Put on TV (8)

3 Fan out (6)

4 Paddled boat (5)

5 Too (4)

6 Give approval to (7)

7 Lives (6)

8 Go one better (5)

10 Nagging pain (4)

11 Maximum size (7) 12 Called for (6)

17 Evaluation (10)

18 River edges (5)

22 Done again (8)

23 Sparkle (5)

24 Invented (7)

26 And others (2,2)

28 Surrounded by (7) 29 Film holder (6)

30 Slight heat (6)

31 Usual (6)

33 Sediment (5)

35 Search someone for weapons (5)

36 Gratis (4)

37 Military flute (4) 43 Capital of Poland (6) 44 Young sheep (5)

46 Lose weight (4)

47 Pungent gas (7)

48 Bow user (6)

49 Ages (5)

50 Taken as true (8)

51 Tarmac (6)

52 Pigeonhole (10)

53 Hankering (4)

54 Correspond­ence (7) 59 Simple song (5)

60 Feeble (4)

64 Muzzle (5)

65 Struggled against (8) 67 Month formerly the eighth (7)

68 Waterfall (7)

70 Paid male lover (6) 71 Sell to the public (6) 72 US state (6)

75 Run aground (5)

77 Early Peruvians (5) 78 Tall building (5)

79 Accurate (4)

80 Explosion (4)

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