Giant Crossword
Post‑Roman period (4,4) Princess in the stage musical (4) Worse off (6)
Action of chasing (7) Extract (6)
Perform, portray (5) Ravine or valley cut in steep rocks (5) Variety of bingo (5) Citric or sulphuric, for example (4)
___ Pegg, actor and comedian (5)
___ Piaf, singer (5) Hitting repeatedly (9) Not fastened (of buttons) (6) Made brief (8) Grating (6)
Organ with which a fish steers (3)
Make or become better (7) Conceited boastful person (7) Wisecrack (4)
Doing porridge (10) Travel on the sea (4) Higher (5)
Negative financial balance (5)
Holy image (4)
Thick mass (5)
___ Mason, fictional lawyer (5) Most eminent (8) Abundant (praise) (7) Formally admitted to office (5,2)
___ George Eliot novel (4)
Cain’s brother (4) Isaac’s father in the Bible (7) Least exciting (7) Chemist’s shop (8) Public tiff (5)
___ Lennox, Eurythmics singer (5) Castle tower (4)
Create, set up (5) Incite (3,2)
Row, level (4) Canine treat (3,7) Crossbow arrow (4) Shellfish (7)
Very drunk (3‑4) Towards the stern of the ship (3)
On fire (6) Builder’s hard‑setting floor substance (8) Brightly coloured spring flower (6)
Gave a loud harsh cry (9) Appended (5) Makes equal, levels (5) ___ Stravinsky, composer (4) Take over illegally (5) Offensive, disgusting (5) Binding of a book (5) Carry on (6)
Call out (words) to be typed (7)
Stand (6)
Elliptic in shape (4)
Did some weeding (8)
Vegetable of the cabbage family (8)
Island whose capital is Valletta (5) Protected (8)
Homes in high blocks (5) Show unwillingness to act (4,4) Perform surgery (7) Tiresome nuisance (4) Duvet covers etc (8) Popular number puzzle (6) Cableless internet (2‑2) Indian city (5) Unnamed person (2‑3‑2) European expanse of water (6) Took nourishment (3) Change for the better (6) Rather worse off (7)
Cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine (4) Jeopardy, danger (5) Spice obtained from the bark of a tree (8) Electronic sound (5) Plants’ seed cases (4) End of a prayer (4)
Last Greek letter (5) Stoke’s river (5)
Curl of hair (5) Simultaneous discharge of artillery (5) Ancient land with a biblical queen (5) Resounded (6) Southern US state (5) Viscous mud (5)
At an oblique angle (5) Surface decoration (5) ___ Roy, Scottish outlaw (3) Dame ___ Atkins, actress (6) Paris landmark,
___ de Triomphe (3) Solitary person (5) Person who deserts one belief to join another (8) Port‑au‑Prince’s nation (5) Food fish of the salmon family (5) Sudden terror (5) Hollywood tycoon (5) More invigorating (7) Make (woollens) (4) Inception (5) Water swirl (4) Curved blade for cutting grass (6) Mountain ash (5)
___ Lennon/ McCartney song (4)
Film clip (7) Notorious Chicago gangster of the Prohibition era (2,6) Phrase said following a sneeze (5,3)
Salad plant similar to chicory (6) Stretch of road allowing unhindered travel (8) Altering (8) Halloween month (7) Mildly obscene (6) Desert traveller (5) Chew the ___, ponder (3) Atlantic or Pacific, eg (5) Unrefined (5) Increase the amount of (4) Sticky gel (4)