JUMBO CROSSWORD
1492
ACROSS
1 Take place (5)
4 Making minimal noise
(2,5,2,1,5)
14 Snares (5)
15 Cleave (5)
16 Replacement (10)
17 Leg bone (5)
19 Long fish (3)
20 Greenhouse (7)
21 Eating place (9)
22 Tracked down (6)
25 Hot and bothered (9)
27 Praises highly (6)
28 Twofold (6)
33 Husky, of voice (10)
35 Steal from (3)
36 Written dissertation (6)
37 Porcelain square (4)
39 Mimic (3)
41 Lap (7)
42 Spectator (6)
43 Woodworker (9)
44 Circumference (5)
45 Hired hand (8)
50 Negative (2)
51 Shivered (8)
55 Populous country (5)
58 Getting (9)
59 Strand (6)
60 Heavy (7)
61 Wildebeest (3)
63 Practical joke (4)
64 Overthrow (6)
65 Argument (3)
66 Slight adjustments (4,6)
68 In a sedate manner (6)
69 Small mustelid (6)
71 Twin-hulled vessel (9)
76 Revolutions (6)
77 Ceremonial robes of clergy, choristers (9)
79 Level (7)
81 Ocean (3)
84 Uncanny (5)
85 Immunised (10)
86 Blocks (5)
87 Shockingly vivid (5)
88 Predisposed to a tipple (4,2,3,6)
89 Actor’s whisper (5)
DOWN
2 Mediterranean island (6)
3 Single-digit numbers (5)
5 Liquid food (4)
6 Steal attention from (7)
7 Banished (6)
8 Maltreat (5)
9 Air came (anag)(7)
10 Dolts (4)
11 Gloomy, melancholy (6)
12 Stunned (5)
13 Quarantine (7)
14 Farm vehicle (7)
18 Affluence (10)
23 Prise (5)
24 Pull longer (7)
26 Poetic (7)
27 Trade ban (7)
29 City in England (7)
30 Element with symbol Na (6)
31 Progress very slowly (5)
32 Reflect (6)
34 Narrow aperture (4)
36 Rips (5)
38 Went astray (5)
40 Microbe (4)
45 Era (5)
46 Unforeseen danger (7)
47 Leave out (4)
48 Checked and corrected (6)
49 Saying (5)
50 Not artificial (7)
52 Sooner or later (10)
53 Waxy-flowered plant (7)
54 Degree (6)
55 Disregarded (7)
56 Sovereign (5)
57 Fifty percent (4)
62 Go furtively (5)
67 Plugged (7)
68 Comfort in grief (7)
70 Star-wearing law officer (7)
72 Lure (7)
73 Oddball (6)
74 Deaden (6)
75 Stick up for (6)
76 Memorial stone mound (5)
78 Pledge of fidelity (5)
80 Bind (5)
82 Bitter prolonged quarrel (4)
83 Rind (4)