THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
13 Either paid for by Parliament or free (2,3,5) 14 Or possibly one is wrong about climatic depredation (7) 15 Want very much to have terrible gun woman caught (6) 16 Takes Sunday to Wednesday to get packed (6) 17 Turned out to have been given first aid (7) 18 One’s coiled round a ring or loop (5) 19 String, or note, between B and E (4) 20 Attempt to snatch run, in brief (5) 21 Chars for Robert (5) 22 Mere break, taking off a day, is the solution (6) 23 Steal quietly, move slowly (5) 28 Had put one’s foot down about occasional rent fiddle (7) 30 Sink a container (7) 33 Dental job completed by someone deputising? (7,2) 36 Cut by a quarter is insufficient (6) 38 Frighten with a large weapon (5) 39 Lean, small and trim (5) 40 Bother! Boy brought in stray tom! (6) 42 Reading letters aloud to kid (5) 43 Laughed at what hen did, having laid egg (7) 44 Book with funny tales about horses (6) 46 Careful of your head! (4) 49 To translate to French, I get about a month (4) 51 Lance puts chessman — rook — inside (6) 53 Pulverise the rest within a month, to get control (7) 55 Jack is in the way, to begin with (5) 59 Strangely silent when you try to hear (6) 60 Penned — and we penned piffle (5) 61 Until point penetrates material (5) 62 A mouse, perhaps, will have a home in? Bunkum! (6) 63 Check individually and they are accepted (2,7) 65 First thing dancing pupil learns? (3-4) 66 A chest moved to get large bag (7) 70 Reverting to electrically driven vehicles is shrewd (5) 71 Going away before the finish, insult (6) 73 Bird very near, flying around (5) 75 Gold, try to hide in battered tin (5) 80 Or eliminated a chore that’s a pain (4) 82 They are concealed by being close-mouthed and tight-lipped (5) 83 Go through various names of fruits (7) 84 Angry, with drink taken, returned to kill (6) 85 Annoyed about article, inveighed against (6) 86 Shutting up and stepping on the gas (7) 87 Water and bread. Snack for an Asian (6,4)
DOWN
1 Fragment, from beginning of song, chant discordantly (6) 2 Was wet and were wearing shoes to go outside (8) 3 A little notice she is carrying (5) 4 Sing, accompanied by percussion instrument: dull (7) 5 Amend misspelling, putting e in ‘humiliate’ (6) 6 Asleep, gently removed from and tore up contract (5) 7 Point to drone flying and speculate about (6) 8 Am included, being vaguely a celebrity (3,4) 9 Not late home, having had fun (2,4,4) 10 Buck up. It’s cold out here (5) 11 Working — or not working (8) 12 Said animals love honey or sugar (4) 24 Looking very embarrassed. I’m held in scorn, unfairly (7) 25 Centre of the earth is molten (5) 26 Perplexed by the bowler? (7) 27 Struck about a thousand new medals (7) 29 Way in which, deviously, true love pervades (5) 31 Expert! That’s a joke! (5) 32 The hair, has flicked to one side (4) 34 Contrive to hide silver in hair (6) 35 Catch up a bit (4) 37 Coming down, ensure the bloodhounds can’t track (7) 41 Restricted a little, being covered by lid (7) 45 How streaker only just avoided capture? (6) 47 Being performed, therefore, in first half of spring, having backer (7) 48 The islanders are drunk, see, on a kind of whisky (7) 50 One way to say ‘identical’ (7) 52 Caught — silly old fool (4) 54 Right back with dessert in a jiffy (5) 56 Bathe in the sun again, outside (5) 57 Stingy, myself, to a point (4) 58 Upset, nag about, or complain (5) 60 Reason for coldness when you ask for rise? (4,6) 64 By which the winged chariot is drawn? (8) 67 Not packed in to carry out. Just the opposite (8) 68 Maybe the ‘power corrupts’ phrase (7) 69 Lie about, ourselves, back again with time off (7) 72 And I’m playing ball in the field (6) 74 On a terribly sour note, evoke (6) 76 Obviously, it’s not the opposite of ‘closely’! (6) 77 Drawing room (5) 78 Catches on there are drawbacks (5) 79 And gets me in to edit (5) 81 Burn most of the map (4)