GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Separated (5)
4 Sailor’s exclamation of astonishment (6,2,7)
14 Crowd (5)
15 Foyer (5)
16 Very slow progress (6,4)
17 Punctuation mark (5) 19 Female sheep (3)
20 Plume (7)
21 Melted (9)
22 Steering mechanism (6)
25 Science of word origins (9)
27 Reveille signaller (6) 28 Lecture (6)
33 Link (10)
35 Pixie (3)
36 Building inspection (6)
37 Weapons (4)
39 Devotee (3)
41 Newspaper piece (7) 42 Yacht harbour (6)
43 Vitally necessary (9) 44 Popular (5)
45 Name (8)
50 Depart (2)
51 Spotted insect (8)
55 Tiny medical bottle (5) 58 Perfumed dried petal mixture (9)
59 Frozen drip (6)
60 Quarantine (7)
61 Male sheep (3)
63 Fortissimo (4)
64 Mediterranean island (6)
65 Play on words (3) 66 Size measurements (10)
68 Oral communication (6)
69 Sheen (6)
71 Reprobate (9)
76 Dirty, squalid (6)
77 Assiduousness (9) 79 Arena (7)
81 Rascal (3)
84 Poor (5)
85 City in England (10) 86 Contagious viral disease (5)
87 Dutch cheese (5)
88 Complete quickly (4,5,4,2)
89 Wheeled boot (5)
DOWN
2 Shows beyond doubt (6)
3 Automaton (5)
5 Hired labourer (4)
6 Putting into words (7) 7 Withstand, oppose (6) 8 Communication via computer (5)
9 Floating cold lump (7) 10 Rear surface (4)
11 Hearsay (6)
12 Sequence (5)
13 Old hand (7)
14 Fingered (7)
18 Pasta in slender threads (10)
23 Undecorated (5)
24 Receded (anag)(7) 26 Stress (7)
27 Bison (7)
29 Cocktail (7) 30 Went bitter (6)
31 Lead off (5)
32 Japanese hostess (6) 34 Undiluted (4)
36 Serpent (5)
38 Cold dish (5)
40 Begrudge (4)
45 Push forward (5)
46 Squeeze out (7)
47 Stole (4)
48 Ban (6)
49 Journal (5)
50 Quick look (7)
52 Sanitises (10)
53 Gold, silver bars (7) 54 Plump (6)
55 Pathetic (7)
56 Keyboard instrument (5)
57 Pleased (4)
62 Dust coat (5)
67 Egg-shaped musical instrument (7)
68 Nest egg (7)
70 Gain a victory (7)
72 Cutting tooth (7)
73 Film theatre (6)
74 Male relation (6)
75 Preacher’s platform (6)
76 Nozzle (5)
78 Internal (5)
80 Intoxicated (5)
82 Cowshed (4)
83 Reminder note (4)