Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling
ACROSS 11 Cite another’s words wrongly (8) 12 Country estate (5) 13 Not awake (6) 14 Emotional request (4) 15 Short, stiff hair, on a brush, perhaps (7) 16 Give up throne (8) 17 Took academic course (7) 18 Not one or the other (7) 19 Point of entry (4) 21 Native of New Zealand (5) 23 Cross-bred dog (7) 24 Speak to assembled masses (7) 28 Opposite of alkali (4) 29 Sports strip (3) 30 Blood vessel (6) 33 Side view (7) 35 Road-building material (3) 36 Light fixture (4) 38 Headlining celebrity (4) 39 Part of foot (3) 40 Prison inmate (7) 42 Wimbledon game (6) 43 Colouring agent (3) 44 Butterfly-like insect (4) 48 Stretchy material (7) 50 Filled pasta cases (7) 51 Sky-blue (5) 54 Band of leather (4) 56 Rough cider (7) 57 Piece of pottery (7) 60 Edge of pavement (8) 61 Small savings for rainy day (4, 3) 63 Right side of map (4) 64 Arm covering (6) 65 Oak seed (5) 66 Learned persons (8) DOWN 1 Sow’s young (6) 2 Wasted (10) 3 Shoemaker (7) 4 Jeans material (5) 5 Leave out (4) 6 Received through bequest (9) 7 Respire (7) 8 Roamed (8) 9 Even-tempered, calm (6) 10 Luxury
apartment (9) 18 Henpecks,
harasses (4) 20 Twelfth
of year (5) 22 Precise, exact, on the nail (8) 25 Cheesy toast
topper (7) 26 Framework
of bones (8) 27 Pub game with
round board (5) 31 Menace,
put in danger (8) 32 Lift in
building (8) 34 Slips your
mind (7) 37 Beer brewer’s
need (5) 41 Fully grown,
mature (5) 44 Soft Italian
cheese (10) 45 Small spring
flowers (9) 46 Racket sport with shuttlecocks (9) 47 Cathedral
town (4) 49 Spurred to action or creativity (8) 52 American
motorway (7) 53 Overlong,
protracted (7) 55 Medicinal
pill (6) 58 Safeguard against financial loss (6) 59 Part of
62 Down (5) 62 Words set to
music (4)