THE GIANT CROSSWORD

CHOOSE CRYPTIC OR QUICK, THE ANSWERS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME, THE SOLUTION WILL APPEAR IN MONDAY’S PAPER.

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

12 Not paged, as it wasn’t warranted (8-3) 13 The rug border also is red (6) 14 Have cockney change part of the horse’s equipment (6) 16 Touch the f-fish (4) 17 Fish put back in, she’d strewn parsley on top? (9) 18 Letting the freed mice run inside is wrong (5) 19 Put up job! (4) 20 A soup found in various branches of restaurant? (5-4) 22 Let out again, grazed around (5) 23 How remark was made when handing over (2,7) 27 Catching local fish and foreign (7) 30 Bell rings two consecutive notes, as it happened (6) 31 Look for someone in Debrett (4) 32 Small and young, with red hair (5) 35 Stop me reversing onto the street (4) 36 Order in a little more than is needed (3,4) 38 Run fast and are hard to get ahead of (4) 39 From which lifeguard has money salted away? (7) 42 Gap narrowed, round about the half century, score freely (6) 45 It gives us a taste, love, from Latin American music (5) 46 As forecast, crept off when I’d turned in (7) 47 Jump round when the point penetrates (4) 48 Complain about halfback in practice (4) 50 Ensures the salad looks decent? (7) 52 Hurt when it’s sent back with ‘No good’ appended (5) 54 Wrong to involve one in the fighting (6) 56 ‘It’s gravel,’ one said drunkenly (7) 57 Plant revealed when the lid is lifted (4) 59 Barren waste full of snow and ice, perhaps (7) 61 Wound requiring an anaesthetic at hospital (4) 64 Talk, galvanizing us to seize power (5) 66 Unblock, when one jammed a penny in (4) 67 The whole time, Irene is bustling about (6) 69 Snakes may hide in them — and rats (7) 72 Attacked in the circular? (7,2) 73 Having broken rule, caught smuggling in money (5) 74 What woodmen through the years have laughed at? (9) 79 Having hurried, stopped to take top off (4) 81 From list, item of household furniture (5) 82 Better than average hack? (1,3,5) 83 Either pop music or reel (4) 85 Find the feline, Leo, wandering outside (6) 86 As central heating bill is, that teaches to have it so? (6) 87 Kept on advertising? (7,4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 12 Not warranted (8-3) 13 Salad ingredient (6) 14 Horse headgear (6) 16 Touch (4) 17 Decorated (9) 18 Offence (5) 19 Job (4) 20 Asian soup (5-4) 22 Let out (5) 23 Casually (2,7) 27 Nationality (7) 30 Happened (6) 31 Nobleman (4) 32 Gingery (5) 35 Stop (4) 36 Plethora (3,4) 38 Run fast (4) 39 Nest egg (7) 42 Nearer (6) 45 Dance (5) 46 Forecast (7) 47 Jump (4) 48 Complain (4) 50 Clothes (7) 52 Hurt (5) 54 Fighting (6) 56 Gravel (7) 57 Eye part (4) 59 Sweet (7) 61 Wound (4) 64 Talk (5) 66 Unblock (4) 67 Whole (6) 69 Informs (7) 72 Attacked (7,2) 73 Money (5) 74 Trees (9) 79 Hurried (4) 81 List (5) 82 Better than (1,3,5) 83 Reel (4) 85 Find (6) 86 Instruction (6) 87 Kept on (7,4)

DOWN 1 As soon as (4) 2 Pale (6) 3 Bottle (6) 4 Speech (7) 5 Bird (5) 6 Toast (4,6) 7 Replica (5) 8 Spice (9) 9 Wild animal (7) 10 Mistake (4) 11 Concluded (8) 15 Accuse (6) 21 Fool (5) 24 Dog (7) 25 Profit (6) 26 Scanty (6) 28 Calls (5) 29 Place (3) 33 Calms (7) 34 Sound of rain (6) 37 Bands (5) 40 Small quantity (5) 41 Vest (7) 43 Lead (5) 44 Puzzling question (6) 46 Modelled (5) 49 Flightless bird (7) 51 Well (6) 53 Acquire policy (6) 55 Pay (5) 58 Bull or bear (10) 60 Hill (3) 62 Piece of paper (5) 63 Wading bird (9) 65 Disparage (4-4) 68 Arrive (4,2) 70 Hide (7) 71 Due to (7) 75 Appeared (6) 76 Usual (6) 77 Kid (5) 78 Quip (5) 80 Dull (4) 84 Fur (4)

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1 As soon as it’s cold, one consumes (4) 2 Needing rouge, paid about two pounds for (6) 3 Motion forwards with the bottle (6) 4 Something delivered to where one lives (7) 5 ‘Man is born to wander,’ I interposed (5) 6 The well-wisher’s toast (4,6) 7 The game is to find another exactly the same (5) 8 I also take a de-seeder round with the spice (9) 9 He-cat prowling round. He is wild (7) 10 Step on a banana skin — mistake! (4) 11 Concluded, when one got embarrassed about (8) 15 Accuse and this minor’s in custody (6) 21 I do switch it round and fool (5) 24 Dog catching up sleep lies sprawled outside (7) 25 Profit shown in income tax form (6) 26 Going through ‘Extra Small’: few and far between (6) 28 Calls round. English man’s out (5) 29 Place for which he left ‘62’ (3) 33 Also upset, she’s given to imbibe, It calms (7) 34 Someone knocking and the sound of rain (6) 37 Dances round in circles (5) 40 Laugh about ‘a modicum of sense’ (5) 41 The one T in ‘vest’ (7) 43 Novice, a she, out in the lead (5) 44 Question is, did I drop in to annoy? (6) 46 Having modelled, does contrive to get on front page (5) 49 Beside coop, in arm I have funnylooking bird (7) 51 Well, that means winter’s over (6) 53 Cover in, of course (6) 55 Was including, for instance, rises in pay (5) 58 Is he wondering if he should have a flutter? (10) 60 Until right by the hill (3) 62 Mum upset cup on paper (5) 63 The club man’s bird (9) 65 Twice ring up to disparage (4-4) 68 Arrive, having put about and brought the vessel in (4,2) 70 Hide the number, a three, clumsily (7) 71 Despite the fact that rain has penetrated, due to (7) 75 Appeared to notice medal had no name on it (6) 76 As usual, point the moral out (6) 77 Letters read aloud to kid (5) 78 Name given to girl as a joke? (5) 80 Reversed, except for the D in ‘dull’ (4) 84 Bald spot in cat fur (4)