Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Icy storage cabinet (7)
14 Caption of a newspaper
article (8)
15 Polish composer of
TheMinuteWaltz (6)
16 Canoe made of skins (5)
19 Pause (4)
20 Cordially (7)
21 Obsess, plague (5)
22 Original site of the Royal
Observatory (9)
23 Cleave (5)
24 Complete lack of money
and other basic needs (7)
26 Devilish (8)
29 Consuming (5)
34 Chaperone (6)
35 Country bordering Libya (7)
37 Washed without
water (3‑7)
41 Discounted (8)
44 Compensate (for) (5)
45 ___ Waugh,
author of Scoop (6)
46 Divulge in private (7)
48 Team quiz (5,4)
50 Be gone! (5,3)
52 Adhering to neither
religion nor atheism (8)
55 Staunched (7)
57 Tripe, chitterlings etc (5)
59 Fight held at dawn (4)
60 Australia/England cricket
‘trophy’ (5)
62 Smallest number (3)
65 Pub, hotel (3)
66 Yet (5)
67 First son of Adam
and Eve (4)
68 Convey (5)
69 Vast area of
north‑eastern Russia (7)
73 Glide on frozen water (3‑5)
75 Quick on the uptake (3,5)
76 Used up, exhausted (6,3)
79 Early radio receiver (7) 81 Breakfast fish (6)
83 Subject to ebb and flow (5)
85 Falling due for renewal (8)
88 Opening (a jar) (10)
89 Radio reception problem (7)
90 Uncomprehending (6)
94 Bedtime drink (5)
95 Finishing point (8)
98 Attack (7)
100 Surface decoration (5)
104 Aware of current
events (2,3,4)
107 Zodiac maiden (5)
108 Cargo saved from
a wrecked ship (7)
109 Ballet dancer’s skirt (4)
110 ___ Tonioli, former Strictly
ComeDancing judge (5)
111 Amusement centre (6)
112 Absconder (8)
113 Engraver’s tool (7)
DOWN
1 Animal raiser (7)
2 North American hickory (5)
3 Water‑worn stone (6)
4 Counter‑current (4)
5 Little corner (5)
6 Spurn (6)
7 Person from Glasgow,
eg (4)
8 Evaded (6)
9 Fairground or theme
park attraction (4)
10 Vehicle and driver
for hire (4)
11 Appliance (7)
13 Starters, appetisers (7)
17 On the waves (6)
18 Extreme edge (3)
25 Dance of Argentinian
origin (5)
27 ___ Izzard, stand‑up
comedian (5)
28 Surface under a window (4)
30 Platform supported by
wall brackets (5) 31 Boxing contest (4)
32 Guided (in) (7)
33 Dog‑faced monkey (6)
35 Indication (5)
36 People of the same
generation (3,5)
38 ___ Ma, cellist (2‑2)
39 Tyrant, autocrat (6)
40 Be impressed by (6)
42 Rounded vase (3)
43 Town in Kent (4)
47 Sailing boat (5)
49 Long vegetables (5)
50 Clergy’s area of a church (7)
51 Leaves, greenery (7)
53 Gave a lecture (5)
54 Matching set of two (4)
56 Below zero on a
temperature scale (5) 58 Matted fabric (4)
61 Set of furniture (5)
63 Banknote (5)
64 Important in the past (8)
65 Crept (forward) (6)
70 Recite, chant (6)
71 Based on a written
source (7)
72 American university (4)
74 Employment bureau (6)
76 Heartbeat (5)
77 Scull (3)
78 South Pacific country,
capital Suva (4)
80 Wild dog of Australia (5)
82 Follower of a
pre‑Christian religion (5)
84 Long walls to prevent
flooding from the sea (5) 86 Essence (4)
87 ___ Hackman, US actor (4)
90 Container of lubrication (6)
91 Frank ___, crooner from
HighSociety (7)
92 Art of cutting trees into
imitative shapes (7)
93 Box containing cutlery (7)
96 Animal that suckles
its young (6)
97 Walked with a long pace (6)
99 Catnapping (6)
101 Children’s hideout (3)
102 Traditional Sunday lunch (5)
103 Carpenter’s work table (5)
105 Incline (to) (4)
106 Legless garden friend (4)
107 Change course (4)
108 Feudal slave (4)