GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 13
Deduction you come to at the end? (10) 14 Try to find words with
which to warn you (4,3) 15 He torments one: that’s
the problem (6) 16 Be piqued when made
to go off again (6) 17 Kinds of things that
remind one of school (7) 18 Getting drunk, really
screwed up (5) 19 Just a little bit of the
foreign letter (4) 20 Needing to cut down on
food – and drink (5) 21 Equally determined to
get the advantage (5) 22 Una needs treatment
– sea sickness (6) 23 Shares the liquid
in the pot (5) 28 The boy has a twitch:
it’s hereditary (7) 30 Acquires when one
calls on (5,2) 33 Is it elusive in the
garden? (9) 36 Would it disturb
the baby? (6) 38 After half a mile has
spurted, to take the lead (5) 39 A scam – smart (5) 40 Tell later to translate
to English (6) 42 Got up and paid for (5) 43 But for the rain coming
into the passage (7) 44 Dazzlingly intelligent? (6) 46 Was given the part
of one let slip (4) 49 One animal of many
in the laboratory (4) 51 Somebody to look
after the money (6) 53 Not broke. In the
money and happy (7) 55 Get rid of, in a trench (5) 59 Each tart is put into one (6) 60 Picture of something in the
children’s playground (5) 61 Were outside the
hospital in question (5) 62 How the convict
loitered? (6) 63 Effeminate garment
for a man? (5,4) 65 Was first to have
shown surprise at (7) 66 Here – this is on
the house (7) 70 Fear the man with
the weapon (5) 71 Well past winter (6) 73 A feature about
the range (5) 75 Hurt just a little bit (5) 80 So about turn and leave (4) 82 Stand behind the
picture (5) 83 He’s beginning to be a
large money spinner (7) 84 Lean over, dear, and
get the fur (6) 85 Get fed up, round about
now, at the diatribe (6) 86 The dope is
contemptible (7) 87 Mad, having fallen off
the bicycle? (10)
DOWN 1
Strong jar a number are put into (6) 2 Cryptic clues he had tucked into the programme (8) 3 Pleasure derived from
making the air hole (5) 4 Talk about American
records (7) 5 It’s silly letting the
sun in – mad (6) 6 Even having money (5) 7 I soon turned the page
over to “Toxin” (6) 8 Definitely sticking overclosely to fact (3,4) 9 Giving the animal a ginger
snap – amazing (10) 10 Say half the rest
ordered tea (5) 11 The container, a tin,
tries to bust (8) 12 Try for a time to
put up with (4) 24 Makes it up to conceal
a peculiar secret (7) 25 Had handed over about
four, the dope! (5) 26 Various papers hard to
go through, possibly (7) 27 Mood drinks get one in? (7) 29 Insist on having it right (5) 31 There’s a blob – a tear
drop – as you speak (5) 32 Arrested in an art gallery (4) 34 You can’t say fairer
than that! (6) 35 Put it back again;
back in the row (4) 37 For a time, the foreign currency presents a problem (7) 41 Beating for not using a
spoon to eat ice cream? (7) 45 And Reginald turns round
to have a look at (6) 47 Expand in a while (7) 48 Because you pull
up ahead (7) 50 A paper, folded, left
beside the clothes (7) 52 Leave with the former
– the one-time (4) 54 Not absent – what
did I tell you! (5) 56 A figure, slim, stepping
out of the bath? (5) 57 Support obtained
from the others (4) 58 A big noise – a prime
minister, we’re told (5) 60 How you speak when
about to go to pieces? (10) 64 Rank as a kind of
punishment (8) 67 Not as good as before
at skating? (8) 68 How slim Woody is? (7) 69 Awfully bored, one’s
going in to undress (7) 72 The nerve, taking on
that quantity! (6) 74 Display on the wall, having
a thing about (4-2) 76 Smart figure by the bar (6) 77 Number five, has
seen round (5) 78 Venue, a hotel, the
relation goes to (5) 79 Not moving the picture (5) 81 Back “The Deceiver”
at the track (4)