Giant Crossword
ACROSS 12 Readily, willingly (6) 75 Funny TV show (6) 13 Secretarial skill (6) 78 Final fanfare (4,4) 14 Foodstuff made from 80 Exhibition (7) cocoa beans (9) 82 Stylish, upmarket (6) Numbered musical piece (4) 83 Copied (4) Act of police 85 Eddied (7) surveillance (5‑3) 87 Allure (5) 19 Broad‑bladed jungle knife (7) 89 Licitly (7) 20 ___ Barlow, Coronation 91 Abandoning, chucking (7) Street character (3)
96 Opposite of ‘pull’ (4) Masculine reflexive pronoun (7) 98 Student at the top of
the class (4,5) Hysteria (5)
100 Bad‑mannered Holiday missive (8) behaviour (8) In an earnest way (9) 101 Human ___, person (5) Emperor of Rome 104 Infectious childhood AD54‑68 (4) illness (7)
Release the air from (7) 106 Metal bar (3)
(Learn) by committing to 107 Embalmed bodies (7) memory (2,5)
109 Unobtrusive, American confectionery (5) restrained (3‑5) Compel obedience of (7) 110 Invites (4) First name of retired 111 Almost, nearly (9) Australian golfer Mr Norman (4) 112 Tight‑fitting (jeans) (6) 41 Available when needed (2,4) 113 Insect that feeds on
flour (6)
44 Cricketers at the crease (7)
45 Waters north of the Wirral
peninsula (5,3)
48 Top‑quality (2,4)
49 Lightly cooked (4)
50 Entertainment (9)
52 Particularly (7)
56 Methodical (7)
58 Crowd (5)
59 Animals of which Komodo dragons are the largest species (7)
60 Serve to illustrate (6)
62 Positioned (6)
64 Expose (7)
67 Bugs ___, cartoon character (5) Hypothetically (2,5) Fortress (7) Piece of plastic from the bank (5,4)
Related (to) (4) 16 18 21
22 23 25 27
29 31
33 35 39 69 71 73
74
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1 ___ Christie, author (6)
2 Material returned to an excavated hole (8)
3 Distant, standoffish (5)
4 Equivalence and regularity (8)
5 Circular token (4)
6 Assented (to) (6)
7 Popular spaniel variety (6)
8 Copy from the internet (8)
9 Tiller of a boat (4)
10 Inherit unexpectedly (4,4)
11 Shock absorber (6)
14 Brie, Cheddar etc (6)
15 Horrified (6)
17 Endured (5)
24 Prayer’s conclusion (4)
26 Long period of time (5)
28 Caress (6) 30 Strange, gloomy and weird (5)
32 Appreciate (7)
34 Distinguished military pilot (3)
36 Advance very slowly (5)
37 Additionally (2,4)
38 Golf expert (3)
40 Bonded (5)
42 Fulfil (5,3)
43 Conifer that sheds its leaves (5)
46 Rogue, rascal (5)
47 Acid‑tasting (4)
51 Grading (6)
53 Kept ready in a cask (2,3)
54 ___ Howard, Brief
Encounter actor (6)
Greatly surprises, amazes (8) Bird reputed to be wise (3) Angled part of a roof (5) 55 56 57 61 63 65 66 67 68 70
By reason of (3)
Ignorant, insensitive (5) Hair‑tidying implement (4) Cooking formula (6) Shower of projectiles (7) Rustic person (5) Unleavened bread variety (5)
Relative by marriage (2‑3) Sharp‑pointed engraving tool (6)
76 Atlantic or Pacific, eg (5)
77 White wood (3)
79 Iron (5)
81 Little devil, wicked spirit (3)
84 (Of a tyre) with
a worn tread (4)
86 Practise (a stage show) (8)
88 Large retail store (8)
72 75 90 Cornwall’s most westerly point (5,3) Maintain, keep up (8)
Roman murdered on the Ides of March (6)
94 Ham‑fisted (6)
95 Devotional hymn or song (5)
97 Bring to light (6)
99 Cycle‑boat (6)
100 ___ Ranganathan, The
Weakest Link host (6)
102 Goad, provoke (6)
103 Piece of confectionery (5)
105 Volcanic deposit (4)
108 Greek goddess of the
rainbow (4) 92 93