Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Bottle‑top remover (6)
13 Distributes, shares out (6) 14 Soap opera’s plot (9)
16 Perimeter (4)
18 Unfair, biased (3‑5)
19 Capital city of Kenya (7)
20 Fuss and bother (3)
21 Powdered spice (7)
22 Plain cake used for cream teas (5) National ___ Gallery, collection of pictures of people (8)
25 Claptrap (9)
27 Ninth Greek letter (4)
29 Social outcasts (7)
31 Be unwelcome (7)
33 Just made (5)
35 Most stable (7)
39 Society, organisation (4)
41 Shirt‑like garment (6)
44 Careless mistakes (4‑3)
45 Noise suppressor (8)
48 ___ Judd, actress (6)
49 Watched (4)
50 Prehistoric monuments (9) 52 Ages (7)
56 In shorter supply (7)
58 Official ruling (5)
59 Craved (for) (7)
60 Local authority
regulations (6)
62 Chat (6)
64 Set alight (7)
67 Vogue (5)
69 Compunction (7)
71 Protests (7)
73 Plain‑sailing (4‑5)
74 All’s Well That ___ Well,
Shakespeare play (4)
75 Underling (6)
78 Make operative, set in
motion (8)
80 Legendary bird said to rise
from its own ashes (7)
82 Worker in the logging
industry (6)
83 Chunk (of chocolate, eg) (4) 23 85 Food preparation (7)
87 Mates (5)
89 Tasks involving a short journey (7)
Loud chirping insects (7)
96 Mountain lake (4)
98 Motown sound (4,5)
100 Annihilates (8)
101 Snug (5)
104 Liquids container with a handle and lip (4,3) Inner self (3)
Lays out for profit (7) Hinting (8) Household appliance or common metal (4)
111 Lively, high‑spirited (9)
112 Small red fruit (6)
113 Young oxen (6)
DOWN
1 Variety of brandy (6)
2 Finnish city (8)
3 Exhilarating (5)
4 Floating organisms (8)
5 Boo Boo’s cartoon pal (4)
6 Companion (6)
7 Common vegetable (6)
8 Brief review, summary (8)
9 Low‑pitched (4)
10 Babbling incoherence (8)
11 Stupefied with horror (6)
14 Shame (6)
15 Enfeeble (6)
17 (Computer) peripheral (3‑2) 24 Measurement of land (4) 26 Enforced absence from your country (5)
28 Stout, plump (6)
30 Book of maps (5)
32 Least exciting (7)
34 Travelling salesperson (3) 36 Attend to (customers) (5) 37 Bees’ home (6)
38 Healthy (3)
40 Tree yielding a very light wood (5)
42 Think too highly of (8) 91 106 107 109 110 43 ___ Coogan, TV’s Alan
Partridge (5)
46 Ruthless, brutal (5)
47 Genghis ___,
13th‑century warrior (4) 51 Mental pictures (6)
53 Book of photos (5)
54 Strong, powerful (6)
55 In all probability (1,4,3) 56 Hydro town (3)
57 Purity unit for gold (5) 61 Scottish word for
‘tiny’ (3)
63 Handle (5)
65 Highway (4)
66 Ate to a plan (6)
67 More appetising (7)
68 Prima ___, leading opera
singer (5)
70 Skating surfaces (5)
72 Cry of appreciation (5) 75 Bird with a man’s name (6) 76 44th US president (5)
77 Pig’s home (3)
79 Destructive computer program (5)
81 That bloke (3)
84 Short‑lived enthusiasms (4) 86 Fire‑lighting material (8) 88 Trounced (8)
90 Scoffing (8)
92 Disciples (8)
93 Bruce Lee’s skill (4,2)
94 Written text of a play or film (6)
95 Clive ___, newsreader and Mastermind host (5)
97 Think well of (6)
99 Catchphrase (6)
100 Apparatus (6)
102 Of the best quality (6) 103 105 108
Sudden outbreak (5) Young kangaroo (4) Phase (4)