Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Place in which metal castings are produced (7) Particles of a valuable metal (4,4)
15 Contemptibly small (6)
16 Brief and profound (5)
19 Eye complaint (4)
20 Academy (7)
21 Vilify (5)
22 Imp, sprite (9)
23 Opened (a parcel) (5)
24 One of two openings in a
shirt or other garment (7)
26 Typo (8)
29 Walk in a swaggering
manner (5)
34 Outlined (6)
35 Ripen (7)
37 Put down a weight (10)
41 Frankly,
between chaps (3,2,3)
44 Fed up (5)
45 Food store (6)
46 Ecstasy (7)
48 Vessel for waterways
with locks (5,4)
50 Deserters (8)
52 Base for a statue (8)
55 Bespoke piece of
furniture (7)
57 Chirp (5)
59 Steep rugged rock (4)
60 Congregate in numbers (5)
62 Fluid for writing (3)
65 Teetotal (3)
66 Ventilated (5)
67 Common furniture timber (4)
68 Continuous fixed gaze (5)
69 Evergreen tree (7)
73 Port and city of north‑eastern Scotland (8) Type of radiation (8) Romantic poet (4,5)
Carton containing half a dozen beers (3‑4)
Name that links actors Everett and Grint (6) 14 75 76 79
81 83 Drive too fast (5)
85 Close to sea level (3‑5)
88 Rowed, argued (10)
89 Improves, healthwise (7)
90 Felt hat (6)
94 ___ Prizes, awards for chemistry, peace, literature etc (5)
95 Miserable, gloomy (8)
98 Designing by
corrosion (7)
100Vast sea (5)
104Attacks with the
fingernails (9)
107 Sign outside property
available for rent (2,3)
108Nauseous (7)
109Acid‑house party (4)
110 Thump (5)
111 Ore extraction (6)
112 Raw (8)
113 Small (sleeping)
compartment (7)
DOWN
1 Jarring (7)
2 Specific value (5)
3 Mary’s biblical husband (6)
4 Fringe, boundary (4)
5 Crusade (5)
6 Brook (6)
7 Middle Eastern title (4)
8 Suds (6)
9 Slick (4)
10 Written list of charges (4)
11 Create (5,2)
13 Poorer (7)
17 Ruddy‑complexioned (6)
18 Cut (grass) (3)
25 Sweetheart, beau (5)
27 Rebuff, slight (5)
28 Accepted standard (4)
30 Famous Italian fountain (5)
31 Confidence trick (4)
32 Disney cartoon character with a magic lamp (7) Popular myth (6) 33 35 Entry recording a sum owing (5)
36 Modern music celebrities (3,5)
38 Singe (4)
39 Chinese form of exercise (3,3)
40 Dwindled (6)
42 Two times five (3)
43 Gas much used in
illuminated signs (4)
47 Send‑up or hoax (5)
49 ___ Evans, Krystle in
(5)
50 ___ Tarantino, film director (7)
51 Avenged (a wrong) (7)
53 Futuristic (novels) (3‑2)
54 At a distance (4)
56 Civic leader (5)
58 Virginia ___, Britain’s Wimbledon ladies’ champion of 1977 (4)
Booth (5) 61 63
nursery rhyme (5)
64 One who provides the voice‑over for a TV documentary (8)
65 Scattered broken pieces,
rubble (6)
70 Relieving (6)
71 Hair, whisker (7)
72 First name of Steve McFadden’s character (4)
Again! (6)
___ Iscariot, disciple (5) ___ Dowden,
dancer (3)
78 Rock to sleep (4)
80 Dried plum (5)
82 First name of comedian
Izzard (5)
84 Be living (5) 74 76 77 86 Abandoned child (4)
87 Cipher, nothing (4)
90 Paltry (6)
91 Brand of white rum (7)
92 German car
manufacturer (7)
93 With all innocence (7)
96 Affectionate name for the monster said to live in a large Scottish lake (6)
97 Bathroom powder (6)
99 Abetter (6)
101 Had some food (3)
102 Basis of soups (5)
103 Consume (3,2)
105Running competition (4)
106Successor (4)
107 Ancient Roman
garment (4)
108Soft amorphous mass (4)