Chichester Observer

GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Cutting blades (8)

5 Flow of vehicles (7)

9 Write down for future reference (4,5) 14 Flower part (5)

16 All over (3,3,4)

23 Paid attention to (6)

24 System of social organisati­on (9)

25 Revokes (7)

26 Seed (3)

27 City in Alaska (9)

28 Neat (4)

29 Gymnasium item (10)

30 Katherine __, Welsh opera singer (7) 31 Domesticat­ed (4)

32 Absentee (6)

33 Edith __, French singer (4)

34 Waterfowl (7)

37 Lacking sense (5)

38 __ Callas, opera singer (5)

39 Slight hue (5)

40 Bulletin (4,6)

42 Top drawer (5)

43 Robots (8)

48 __ Dunham, US comedian and

actress (4)

49 Whole number (7)

50 Pupils (8)

51 Konnie __, UK TV presenter (3)

52 Discord (10)

53 Exit a private computer account or

web page (3,3)

58 Menacing glare (4,4)

61 Views (6)

62 Saturated (7) 63 Unnecessar­y (8)

65 Notable, convincing (10)

70 Objecting (10)

72 Out of control and moving very fast (8) 73 Sleeping area (7)

74 The Old Man and __, Hemingway

novel (3,3)

75 Predicts (8)

82 Drifts (6)

83 Wed (3,3,4)

85 Sardonic (3)

86 Symbol of hospitalit­y (4,4)

87 Funny (7)

88 Go by (4)

94 Singing voice (8)

95 Beth __, US singer-songwriter in the

band Gossip (5)

96 Put out (10)

97 Greek letter (5)

98 The __ UK, TV talent show (5)

99 UK exams taken at sixteen (init.) (5) 103 Ebenezer __, Charles Dickens

character (7)

105 Delicate fabric (4)

106 East Indian sailor (6)

108 Gemstone (4)

109 Apprentice­s (7)

110 Disorganis­ed or unhappy (3,2,5)

113 Food rations (4)

114 Persevered (9)

115 Celebrity, guest of honour (init.) (3)

116 Childish fit of rage (7)

118 Genuinely (9)

119 South American river (6)

120 Unsolicite­d salesperso­n (4,6) 121 Steep (5)

122 Animal disease (9)

123 High-pitched (7)

124 Contemplat­e (8)

DOWN

2 Closing-down sale (9)

3 Type of rock (11)

4 Henchman to Goldfinger in the Bond

film (6)

6 Italian capital (4)

7 Engine parts (3,5)

8 Residing temporaril­y (7,3)

9 Songbird (6)

10 Short sleep (3)

11 An almost successful attempt (4,4)

12 Throw (4)

13 Better (8)

14 Shade of brown (5)

15 Fruit plants (4,5)

17 Floating (6)

18 Quarrel (8)

19 Saturated (11)

20 __ Smith, UK novelist of The Hundred

and One Dalmatians (5)

21 Civic messenger, historical­ly (4,5)

22 Christian festival (9)

31 Pacts (8)

35 Sporting spear (7)

36 Biological group (5)

41 Groups of three (6)

44 Delineated (7)

45 Floor covering (4)

46 Joking (7)

47 Rubble (5)

54 Archaic word for ‘you’ (4) 55 __ Nation Army, song by the White

Stripes (5)

56 Narrate (7)

57 Extinct bird (4)

59 Large ape (7)

60 Pledge (4)

64 Hotpot (4)

66 Mollusc (5)

67 Niche (6)

68 Offer (8)

69 Determinat­ion (7)

71 Conveyed (11)

76 Type of grain (4)

77 Medicine that helps with the

expulsion of mucus (11)

78 Flight of steps (9)

79 Witchlike old woman (5)

80 Exaggerate­s (10)

81 Royalties paid to actors for past

work (9)

84 Learned informatio­n (9)

89 Farthest back (9)

90 Delicate, heavenly (8)

91 Bound with restraints (8)

92 Uncertaint­y (8)

93 Limpet (8)

100 Parisian palace (6)

101 Type of light switch (6)

102 Scared (6)

104 Egyptian capital (5)

107 Cut (5)

111 __ Redding, US singer (4)

112 Star __, US sci-fi franchise (4)

117 Tear (3)

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