Phwoar – it’s a whopper! Enjoy your puzzling

ACROSS 11 Small sliver of wood that might stick in a finger (8) 12 Take lessons (5) 13 Supporting column (6) 14 Slow run (4) 15 Vote back into office (7) 16 Waterproof outer garment (8) 17 Celebrate, have a party (7) 18 Mobile home (7) 19 Song for two (4) 21 Adopted name (5) 23 25% (7) 24 Register arrival at work at the start of the shift (5,2) 28 Do as ordered (4) 29 Saucepan (3) 30 Religious minister (6) 33 Yellow food flavouring and colouring (7) 35 Snooker stick (3) 36 Salt Lake state (4) 38 Roman garment (4) 39 Unwell (3) 40 For a very short while (7) 42 Creepycrawly (6) 43 Brewed drink (3) 44 Slightly wet (4) 48 Quarantine (7) 50 Flash cook in a wok (4-3) 51 Pub arrows (5) 54 Molten rock from a volcano (4) 56 Kitchen surface (7) 57 Lottery with prizes at a fete (7) 60 Idyllically rustic (8) 61 Passage from a book (7) 63 Notion (4) 64 Our continent (6) 65 Walk into a scene on stage (5) 66 Large fish from which caviar is obtained (8) DOWN 1 Thin on the

ground (6) 2 Book of words (10) 3 Draw, lure (7) 4 Welcome (5) 5 Run away (4) 6 Manufacturing

plants (9) 7 Cut designs

into metal (7) 8 Non-compulsory,

left to choose (8) 9 Even-tempered,

serene (6) 10 First responder who arrives in an ambulance, perhaps (9) 18 Wine-bottle

bung (4) 20 Window pane

fixative (5) 22 Sporting dog, black or fawn in colour (8) 25 Fancy dress (7) 26 Directly

contrary (8) 27 Piquant food

flavouring (5) 31 Sweet frozen food in a cone, perhaps (3,5) 32 Dining-room accessory, protecting surface from heat (8) 34 Washing cloth (7) 37 Wind musical

instrument (5) 41 Proverbially a bird that delivers a baby (5) 44 Castle’s moat

crosser (10) 45 Plant with edible

tips (9) 46 Figurine, an Oscar, for instance (9) 47 Enfold, cover (4) 49 Frustrated,

obstructed (8) 52 Supermarket

cart (7) 53 Line in a map showing heights (7) 55 Novelist (6) 58 Hide to avoid

detection (3,3) 59 Wood used by model makers (5) 62 Pastry dish (4)