JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Left over (5)

4 Connected to (8)

9 Official language of Israel (6)

14 Weatherproof coat (5)

15 One's finest clothes (4,3,3,6)

17 Spanish friend (5)

18 Passenger vehicle (3)

19 Determination (7)

20 Unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation (9)

21 Intimate friends (6)

24 Mealy-mouthed (9)

25 Set (6)

26 Postage stickers (6)

29 Italicised (anag)(10)

31 Friend (3)

32 Song (6) 33 Bludgeon (4)

35 Pastry (3)

37 Pacific country (4)

39 Domestic machine (9)

40 Formal written assurance (9)

41 Watery (5)

42 Borrowing charge (8)

47 Worker's attendance record (8)

51 Assumed name (5)

55 Foetal (9)

56 Riddle (9)

58 Balanced (4)

59 Age (3)

60 Diplomacy (4)

61 Spring back (6)

62 Garland of flowers (3)

63 Sealed for submersion (10)

66 Idle scrawl (6)

67 Merges (6)

69 Able to be endured (9)

72 Off course (6)

73 Goading, needling (9)

75 Trudged (7)

77 Decay (3)

80 Command (5)

81 Fail to persist in an undertaking (4,2,3,7)

82 Blemish (5)

83 Guard (6)

84 All (8)

85 Verbose (5)

DOWN

2 Pickled (9) 3 Proportion (5) 5 Snare (4) 6 Within hearing (7) 7 Management of home affairs (12) 8 Sea-retaining embankments (5) 9 Sheltered port (7) 10 Predisposition (4) 11 Publication chief (6) 12 Nipping creatures (5) 13 Lawn flowers (7) 14 Indigence (7) 16 Check into thoroughly (11) 22 Part of the foot (6) 23 Scientific rock study (7) 24 Picture mentally (7) 25 Assistant (6) 27 Home guard (7) 28 Seasoned preserved sausage (6) 30 Baby's bed (4) 32 Creature (5) 34 Procreate (5)

36 Destiny (4)

38 Hotel (3)

42 Bungling (5) 43 Smoked plant (7) 44 Sunbeams (4) 45 Chanteuse (6) 46 Written defamation (5) 48 Souvenir collection (11) 49 Crack (7)

50 Regret bitterly (3) 51 Narrative (7)

52 Fish covering (6) 53 Clearly evident, definite (12) 54 Was aware (4)

57 Go back (6) 64 Quick-tempered (3-6) 65 Exhilaration, high spirits (7) 66 Thaw (7) 68 Economical (7) 70 Protracted (7)

71 Waxy light (6)

72 Map book (5)

74 Worth (5)

76 Dance club (5) 78 Obnoxious child (4) 79 Tight-fisted (4)