THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
12 Spends money like water? (8,3) 13 Somehow cope, turning it into the elevated and sublime (6) 14 Letting in five buzzing horse flies (6) 16 Mix in a jug or can (4) 17 Convey how to fill box, in form (3,6) 18 Turning again, let out a roar. Mistake(5) 19 Lose your temper ag–again about (4) 20 Says the fellow is a politician (9) 22 Following time, I spy staggering. Drunk (5) 23 Do a quick volte-face and have a collection (4-5) 27 To grasp the gun, did stretch out (7) 30 Motto is ‘work to an end’ (6) 31 Occupation and rank (4) 32 Rings European friends about (5) 35 Served in tankard. There’s an insect right at the bottom (4) 36 Despite the fact of having time for reflection (7) 38 Forced to return something imported from abroad (4) 39 With punishment aplenty, reformed (7) 42 When approaching prisons, they quiver Uncontrollably (6) 45 Afterwards, both sides had tea break inside (5) 46 Fire he is putting out in a vehicle (7) 47 Animals in the Western (4) 48 Fix your hair, honey (4) 50 Goes off with dog, daughter and little boy (7) 52 Fast bonding with fellow workers (5) 54 Allow the river to engulf and annihilate (6) 56 How a monarch’s reign is referred to, usually (2,1,4) 57 New issue of stock (4) 59 In autumn, will migrate to the sun to luxuriate (7) 61 Senses it’s to the point (4) 64 Say there’s snow at the top (5) 66 Something very hard to flatten (4) 67 Figure it’s the new brown (6) 69 Company car put on order, proved to be bribable (7) 72 Deduced to have been effective (6,3) 73 Influence to strike (5) 74 In which low songs are sung? (4,5) 79 Beautiful — or not bad (4) 81 High point of good trip taken round (5) 82 To the actors, whisper ‘dispense with’ (4,5) 83 — fly! (4) 85 If you want to dress girlishly, won’t work! (6) 86 Mother and aunt worried about (6) 87 Beginnings of horse-drawn transport? (5,6) CHOOSE CRYPTIC OR QUICK, THE ANSWERS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME. FOR TODAY’S SOLUTIONS, CALL NOW
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1 Quarrel with small boy (4) 2 Or caught in trap, put back in cage, perhaps (6) 3 Fashions mum copies (6) 4 Lost for about an hour, is found in smoking room (7) 5 Eat. There’s a great deal of nitrogen in (5) 6 Practicality the silly ass doesn’t have? (5,5) 7 One sets about rearing in animal pens (5) 8 Giving a roasting to, for speeding (9) 9 Treatment for heart trouble. Pity it has been withdrawn (7) 10 Half revolted, rising again (4) 11 First love has a girl in a tizzy (8) 15 Fetch to put hole in, drilling through (6) 21 Right back with dessert in a jiffy (5) 24 To make function, knot rope at one end (7) 25 Running away, trip (6) 26 Invariably law-breaking, say otherwise (6) 28 The river Tees flows round it, in short (5) 29 Loaf — a cob, perhaps (3) 33 They deliver items from gentleman’s outfitter (7) 34 Are embarrassed about being fostered (6) 37 Swivels the rain barrels round (5) 40 Precious little time to make postings online (5) 41 Danger there is in consuming fat-dissipating pill (7) 43 Drinks for shoaks or topersh? (5) 44 Like the smile that greeted the off-colour joke? (6) 46 Throws for small animals to catch (5) 49 Don’t allow, taking stand, to jeer (7) 51 Discovers it’s a real mistake to put two poles together (6) 53 Let up, be a tad wobbly (6) 55 Glare at an inferior (5) 58 As a result, it was the orchestrator’s swan song (5,5) 60 Doctor whatshisname (3) 62 What was discussed when I quietly got into bed, retiring (5) 63 Basic instruction on beaching? (9) 65 For infant left inside, most likely (8) 68 Dessert has some dithering, ourselves included (6) 70 Now line up and speak to (7) 71 The underlings are given food outside, in turn (7) 75 With some people, as ever, prove popular (6) 76 For older fugitives captured, a bad experience (6) 77 Insignificant, dear. Tiny lacks in (5) 78 Not happy consuming a large dish of vegetables (5) 80 The man with the wrench (4) 84 Saw, as child said, what bird was eating (4)