GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Young cats (7)
4 Very unwell (4,2,1,3)
9 Alleged (7)
13 Slightly open (4)
14 Fletcher’s product (6) 15 Vegetable (6)
16 Smelt (7)
19 Tutored (10)
20 About to occur (8)
21 Trivial complaint (5) 24 Saturate (6)
25 Good luck charm (6) 27 Moving staircase (9) 32 Extramarital sex (8) 33 Deposit on teeth (6) 34 Ticked by (7)
38 Fearless (8)
39 Thick soup (6)
40 Heap (4)
41 Run aground (5)
42 Tiny particles (5)
45 Near to physical collapse
(2,4,4,4)
52 Coin toss call (5)
55 Braided length of hair (5)
56 German Mrs (4)
57 Imaginary (6)
58 Grappled with (8) 61 Struck out (7)
62 Drive forward (6)
63 Widespread disease
outbreak (8)
66 Tropical fruit (9)
68 On the inside (6)
69 Spoiled, impaired (6) 73 Puzzle out (5)
74 Strange (8)
76 Signal to proceed (5,5) 81 European language (7) 82 Slake (6)
83 Pit (6)
84 Covetousness (4)
85 Promised solemnly (7) 86 Fine repast (4-2,4)
87 Wool fat (7)
DOWN
1 Army colour (5)
2 Pass ownership to (8)
3 Authoritarian (6)
4 Said something (5)
5 Barrel (4)
6 Assign to a position (7)
7 A season (6)
8 Frequently (5)
10 Connection (4)
11 Conflagration (7)
12 Not liable to (6)
17 Particular courses of
action (10)
18 Go furtively (5)
22 Scottish broadsword (8) 23 Leap over (5)
24 Bloodsucking count (7) 26 Encounter (4)
28 Sharp blade (7)
29 One lacking skin pigment (6)
30 Commands (6)
31 Fought with swords (6) 33 Lag behind (5)
35 Segment (5)
36 Lower part of wall,
specially decorated (4) 37 Block (4)
43 At an angle (6)
44 Grain crop (5)
46 Standard (4)
47 Impartial (7)
48 Carve (6)
49 Month (5)
50 Vast tyre (anag)(8)
51 Flavoured water-ice (6) 52 Welcoming, cordial (10) 53 Wheel shaft (4)
54 Tranquillised (7)
59 Chop off (5)
60 Flightless bird (4)
64 Increased (5)
65 Master copy (8)
67 Null and void (7)
68 Adore (7)
70 Accommodation house (6)
71 Abduct (6)
72 Of the teeth (6)
75 Commonly encountered
(5)
77 Competitor (5)
78 Check clothes for fit (3,2)
79 Speed contest (4)
80 Throb painfully (4)