Giant Crossword

ACROSS 11 Kept as sacred (8) 12 Grain husks (4) 13 Calm (6) 14 ___ sitcom starring Frankie Muniz (7) Curtained (6) Hangman’s loop (5) Wax lyrical about (5) ___ Leach, 2023

contestant (5) Part of a book (4) ___ Allan Poe, 19th‑century American poet (5) Coniferous tree (5) Continues (7,2) Cow before she has had her first calf (6) Act of police surveillance (5‑3) Distant (6) Dark (3) Yearly calendar (7) Middlemost (7) Adherent of an Indian monotheistic religion (4) 43 Very (10) 45 Catholic leader (4)

DOWN 47 Devotional hymn or song (5)

1 Sweet dense oat cake (8) 48 Counterfeit (5)

2 Sulky at times (5) 49 Network (4)

3 Use (profits) as capital (8) 50 Move in time to music (5)

4 Instruct thoroughly (5) 51 Noisy, disorderly (5)

5 Have an effect on 56 Frank quality (8) one another (8) 58 First glimpse (7) One who gets above 60 Famous Tuscan wine themselves (7) region (7) Bridge bid (4) Academic test (4) Animate object (4,4) Cleverly and with skill (4) ___ Southgate, Religious nonconformist (7) England manager (6) Ballast sack (7) Cadge (4)

Lads who assist on Notorious biblical king (5) Wimbledon courts (8) Explanation that goes Beast’s nose (5) with a picture (7) Hard black wood (5) Fleece of the Middle Eastern canal (4) Angora goat (6) Quiet and shy (5) 1980s US alien

puppet sitcom (3) 18 19 20 21

22 23

24 25 27

32

34 35 36 39 42 61 63 65 68 70

72 74 75 76 77 Indian dish (5)

82 Antlered male animal (4) 83 Dominant trend (10)

84 Bestow (4)

85 Start of a rocket flight (4‑3) 87 Cruised (7)

89 Cooker top (3)

90 Large glass‑roofed

entrance hall (6)

93 Stiff hairs (8)

96 Academy Awards (6)

98 Baby bird (9)

99 Forcibly remove (5)

100 Purvey food (5) 105How soon? (4)

107 Accumulate (5) 108Control, influence (5) 109House’s covered

entrance (5)

110 Porous (6)

111 Field for horses (7)

112 Person responsible for the contents of a publication (6)

113 Jesus’ mother (4)

114 Unfastens by twisting (8) 6

7 8 9

10 11 15

16 17 26 28 29

Inspire affection (6) Avoided (7)

Dutch colonist in

South Africa (4)

Fumes from a chimney (5) London arts complex (8) Sews together as a temporary measure (5)

37 Salad dressing, informally (4) 38 sister (4)

40 Synthetic fibre (5)

41 Appears imminent (5)

42 Drink greedily (5)

44 Military cloth (5)

45 Susceptible (5)

46 Brilliant brain (6)

52 Asian city containing the Red Fort (5)

British small change (5) Diving gear (5)

30 31 33 53 54 55 57 59

Balls of fluff on fabric (5) Alehouse (3) Person who comes first in a race (6)

No matter which (3) Of tender years, not yet adult (5) Constructs again (8) Armoured fighting vehicles (5)

69 Fairy‑tale dwarf (5)

70 Herb or a boy’s name (5) 71 ___ Mars, singer (5)

73 Local inhabitants (7)

75 Shoe gaiter (4)

78 Accurate firearm (5)

79 Filthy air (4)

80 Suborned (6)

81 Go to see (a person

or place) (5)

62 64

66 67 86

Thin sheet of metal for wrapping food (4) Longed (7)

Slope (8)

Childish fits of temper (8) Commissioned army officers (6)

Style of table‑tennis shot (8) Cloth for drying (3,5) Plant’s blooms (7) Gathering convened to communicate with spirits (6) 101 Sidles (5)

102 Jazz band instrument,

familiarly (3)

103 Performance set to

music (5)

104Pet charity (inits)(5) 106Joking deception (4) 108Positions (4)

88 89 91 92

93 94 95 97