THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
12 Avoided, in a crabby way (11) 13 Continue — to support? (4,2) 14 Baloney! The figure is bad (6) 16 Ferment in the jug (4) 17 Bit by bit — not all three courses at once? (9) 18 Lean towards the right in the current way of thinking (5) 19 Are forced by the wife to put on (4) 20 Not knowing then I’d jumped ship (2,3,4) 22 Pestering a body to make amends (5) 23 Accumulate shares — a heap of them (9) 27 Show lisp has developed within a day (7) 30 Split, or cut, to put inside for the bird (6) 31 P-put on a show (4) 32 The logo is British as well (5) 35 Are kicking to the right back (4) 36 Don’t just sit there and leave your date waiting! (5,2) 38 Compact, with a fabric cover (4) 39 Deduce from the refusal nobody wants to go there (7) 42 Wrenches from the wife and breaks (6) 45 The R in ‘drew’ or ‘weary’ (5) 46 A snap, perhaps, in faded sepia (7) 47 Dull and back east. Unexciting (4) 48 That’s your setter at the inside with a chum (4) 50 Back with new boyfriend, is coming round (7) 52 Losing no time, pop back in to free (5) 54 Saves from frost and snow a number brought inside (6) 56 Carrying very gentle white fluffy dog (7) 57 Caught an awful rain coming back: very dismal (4) 59 Says it’s someone else’s animal. Din’s overwhelming (7) 61 Put up a notice about a job? (4) 64 Business man imbibing wine (5) 66 Dad is in an Italian city (4) 67 Round and round, round the tree top (6) 69 Alfresco. To begin with, fine. Rain puts an end to (4-3) 72 Perception for which you don’t need eyes at the back of your head (9) 73 Back home, I’d had a meal (5) 74 Position things differently in the back row (9) 79 Had, right through, been tough (4) 81 Showing in Kissinger’s char (5) 82 Basic teaching about landing a plane? (9) 83 Does it mean ‘OK for credit’? (4) 85 Again the wolf returns. It’s seen in the garden (6) 86 Sunday best? That’s a laugh! (6) 87 Beer at home and a steak (11)
DOWN
1 Can, with time, change the colour of hair (4) 2 On dead planet, there’s a shortage (6) 3 With the street up, I had been foolish (6) 4 Looks like folded paper used to line (7) 5 Sort out some revellers first at the bar (5) 6 Capital for ‘Duke’ and ‘General’ (10) 7 Sees why someone’s going to the dermatologist? (5) 8 The faster you go, the more likely it is to catch you (5,4) 9 Forecast, before I’d been taken back to court (7) 10 A street cry? Pack it in! (4) 11 Happened to have been about to decline (8) 15 Bother! Earl Street goes into it! (6) 21 One is taking round one’s new racket (5) 24 Sign that a number will be entering harbour (7) 25 And were almost about to stray (6) 26 Struggles to catch river fish (6) 28 What’s another word for ‘average’? Capital answer! (5) 29 Creature in Nativity scene at a Sunday School (3) 33 Cocktail there’s little skill in making (7) 34 Grab child ants are crawling over (6) 37 Does he cut a figure in his cassock? (5) 40 Brought me in and falsely identified (5) 41 No longer held to be a derogatory remark (3-4) 43 Get to ‘Preacher finally converted’ (5) 44 With little son, frequently relent (6) 46 Used a drill on timber, say (5) 49 Set off once to trudge to end of lane (7) 51 Usual or unusual Roman numeral (6) 53 Sitting at piano, song I play (6) 55 Because cooler under a tree (5) 58 Crackers for a dog? (7,3) 60 Is pouring soft drink (3) 62 Shy, sing a number in (5) 63 Beautiful girl one’s got little time for: cheating (9) 65 Sailing aboard ‘The Continental’ is delightful (8) 68 Standing right by, more worried, shake (6) 70 The fathead is certain to create a breach (7) 71 Is held by supports and doesn’t give way (7) 75 See pull up again, ahead (6) 76 He wrote ‘A Ramshackle Hut’ and ‘Love Right to the End’ (6) 77 Ascertain and get the novice driver to pull in (5) 78 A refusal to supply with any accommodation would anger (5) 80 After he’d left, did confess to bring depressed (4) 84 A note has been changed for coins, perhaps (4)