Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Lady’s private sitting room (7)
Atomiser for spraying paint (8)
15 Copyist (6)
16 Boat’s mooring place (5)
19 Part of a foot (4)
20 In a senseless manner (7)
21 ___ Day,
(5)
22 Yelling, shouting (9)
23 As a consequence of (3,2)
24 Within the vicinity (5,2)
26 Part of a chair that you lean
against when sitting (4‑4)
29 Cinema entrance hall (5)
34 Abut (6)
35 Religious ceremony (7)
37 Devoid of logic (10)
41 Castle (8)
44 Many times (5)
45 Large exotic
green‑skinned fruit (6)
46 ___ Beatles hit (7)
48 Rate too highly (9)
50 Large gland behind
the stomach (8)
52 Thoroughly (2,6)
55 Only just (the winner in a race) (2,1,4)
___ Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize‑winning writer (5)
59 Bicycle accessory (4)
60 Night watch (5)
62 Harp on at (3)
65 Tooth on a gearwheel (3)
66 Choose, settle on (5)
67 One who consumes
or operates (4)
68 Brag about (5)
69 Drinks cooler (3,4)
73 Funicular (5‑3)
75 Bit of a lark (8)
76 Tool container at the rear of a bicycle (9)
Two lines of rhyming verse (7) 14 57 79 81 Tall ornamental grass (6)
83 New Zealand
language (5)
85 Condition of being
independent (8)
88 Pinkish edible fish (3,7)
89 Dodging (7)
90 Brightness (6)
94 ___ Holly,
95 Christens (8) (5)
98 Marooned on
the rocks (7)
100 Quick meal (5)
104Marine echinoderm (3,6)
107 Dimness (5)
108Arousing sorrow (7)
109Numbered musical
piece (4)
110 Hard doughnut‑like roll (5)
111 Uproar, outcry (6)
112 Last day of the year
in Scotland (8)
113 Food expert (7)
DOWN
1 Glum, miserable (7)
2 Of the state (5)
3 Animals walking on two legs (6)
4 Take orders from (4)
5 Covered in wet earth (5)
6 Heavenly winged creature with a human face (6)
7 Requests (4)
8 ___ Miller, US playwright (6)
9 Adam’s second son (4)
10 Abominable Snowman (4)
11 Astound (7)
13 Enlarged (7)
17 Slain (6)
18 Golfer’s starting point (3)
25 Soft French hat (5)
27 Species of ape, colloquially (5)
28 Badger’s burrow (4)
30 44th US president (5)
31 Bear up, get by (4) 32 Ringing (7)
33 Cooked in water (6)
35 Formed letters on a surface (5)
36 Modern music ensemble (3,5)
38 Griff ___ Jones,
TV presenter (4)
39 Negative pronoun (6)
40 Adoring (6)
42 Digit on the foot (3)
43 Offer of reduced‑price
goods (4)
47 Lotto (5)
49 Distant view (5)
50 Epidemics (7)
51 Pacify, placate (7)
53 Loose‑fitting top (5)
54 Bath’s river (4)
56 ___ Slater, food writer
and broadcaster (5)
58 Building land (4) 61 Native inhabitant (5)
63 Company’s directors (5)
64 Falls ill again (8)
65 Wax colouring stick (6)
70 Marital crime (6)
71 Sports team’s letters from admirers (3,4)
___ O’Brien,
Irish novelist (4) Camembert or Parmesan, eg (6)
Bee’s defence (5)
Coil of hair, or a currant roll (3)
78 Stay in a tent (4)
80 Address a law court as
an advocate (5)
82 Capital of France (5)
84 Unpaid (5)
86 Assignment (4) 72 74
76 77 87
Heroine of
(4)
90 John ___, singer with the Beatles (6)
Resentment (7)
Meaning of ‘Mardi’ in Mardi Gras (7)
Alexander ___, influential British fashion designer, 1969‑2010 (7)
96 Argentinian dances (6)
97 Placate (6)
99 Brigand (6)
101 Desiccated (3)
102 Photographic likeness (5)
103 ___ Villa, football team (5)
105State clearly (4)
106Pull with difficulty (4)
107 Became larger (4)
108Entreat (4) 91 92
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