GIANT CROSSWORD
Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers. CRYPTIC
ACROSS 12
When the tennis game began in prison? (7,4) 13 Spot one among
the fish (6) 14 A great American, too (2,4) 16 Make a move though
it’s pouring rain (4) 17 Sprawling, lay on the
Arab boat untidily (3,3,3) 18 Dismiss as “a snag” (5) 19 Written in blue (4) 20 Stopping while the others
get into a circle (9) 22 Speaks about the West
and how if influences (5) 23 Having been mixing gruel in, it’s of an indeterminate colour (4-5) 27 Can carve, in wood,
a boat (7) 30 Silly Carol’s trapped right
inside the coop (6) 31 Nearly all stole back:
a great many (4) 32 Split when there’s a
volley of fire (5) 35 Allow to occupy,
creating a rift (4) 36 Smell the flowers (7) 38 After the fight, a number
are friendly (4) 39 Golly with a face
that’s pleasant (7) 42 Sensitive and loving (6) 45 Nonsense! Stop fighting
with the others! (3,2) 46 Becoming, or fetching (7) 47 In good order though not
having been watered (4) 48 Young thing taking cake
round for the clambake (4) 50 Means the seed, unexpectedly, has not got through (7) 52 “Entitlement” is the
word that fits (5) 54 Mutiny is on the
increase (6) 56 Seems frightened by, when
one winds up again (7) 57 A comeback role in
“The Snare” (4) 59 Decline to give you
a lift to? (4,3) 61 Plant of the hour? (4) 64 The good points, you say,
of ordinary language (5) 66 Spurs on to produce
food (4) 67 Either split up or
stick together (6) 69 Ran the head in
– arrested (7) 72 A fan who won’t let
one down? (9) 73 Set about changing
the day (5) 74 Cruel as the French
ingrate is? (9) 79 Be apt to, when you
take care of (4) 81 Get the drink mixed
in a jiffy (5) 82 A new discovery?
It’s a lie! (9) 83 Awful lag made to
leave the village (4) 85 To go all out is
very taxing (6) 86 About a ship romance
with a girl (6) 87 How many valuables most
of us possess? (8,3)
DOWN 1
Sensed one had put one’s finger on (4) 2 Unwilling to say she
is heartless (6) 3 The admirer rattling a tin
outside is very young (6) 4 Keeping up by not
going home (7) 5 Note the lame shuffle
out to have a walk (5) 6 Detailed description of
the wind storm? (4,2,4) 7 Because, from then
until now (5) 8 Even creating a tilt in,
somehow, to give air to (9) 9 Fire he is putting out
in a vehicle (7) 10 Fearful, as we went through the advertisement (4) 11 A fellow totally ungovernable would be perfect (8) 15 A lot of ghastly people in the bathroom department? (6) 21 Are forced, when one’s
trapped inside, to lift (5) 24 Attack in the ring? (5,2) 25 A vigorous “Phooey!
Take the bus in!” (6) 26 The wine creates a
real stir in court (6) 28 “Famous” registered (5) 29 That horse is a nut! (3) 33 The fool is putting
gin in tankards! (7) 34 The one depositing the
money is a digger (6) 37 Nuts – crazy – about
Eastern music (5) 40 A win over (5) 41 A popular section at the
library? It’s not true! (7) 43 As before, put outside
to get rid of (5) 44 Question the fiddler who
lost his head about (6) 46 Being wounded does
make you stop driving (5) 49 Destroys when one
enlarges (5,2) 51 The singer is terribly hurt
by the “Belt up!” (6) 53 How very with-it the
serrated edge is? (6) 55 Brush you throw away (5) 58 Stopped and put it away
in its box? (6,2,2) 60 Seizure the healthy
have? (3) 62 Measures taken to
eradicate pests (5) 63 Willing to be pleasant (9) 65 Allow, in the course
of the game (8) 68 On the bottom I have
written “Vegetable” (6) 70 Attending with a
donation (7) 71 Set the trap up and
long to beguile (7) 75 Is it possible to get over
there from the gorge? (6) 76 Being generous, the cat
is given about six (6) 77 Stop when the patient swallows the last of the dose (5) 78 Say derisively “A nip!” (5) 80 Not feeling very tired (4) 84 Told stories in the
form of a song (4)