THE GIANT CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

13 Property, but not dream homes? (4,6) 14 Area of land, or something used to cultivate it (7) 15 Presumption is other will be renovated year after (6) 16 Homo sapiens, given time, will contrive to (6) 17 Think the insect swallowed, live: awful (7) 18 Fellow married and bullied (5) 19 Loads of items for sale (4) 20 Swindle the German woman and daughter (5) 21 Bad weather. Most unsettled around mid-March (5) 22 Hence, getting hold of doctor, hitches a ride (6) 23 Heads off for the yard, having been informed (5) 28 How your sugar smiled at you? (7) 30 He waits until everybody has gone ashore? (7) 33 Unappealing to a gourmet and disagreeable to the sensitive (9) 36 Falsify a figure twice in the dossier (6) 38 Give to a person under one’s protection (5) 39 It’s no joke to a drug addict (5) 40 Walk right ahead: a leisurely stroll (6) 42 Even backed right in. The cheek! (5) 43 So I lied, delirious with love (7) 44 A basic necessity for the office desk (6) 46 Remained after main evacuation of plant (4) 49 Half, as usual, quarrel (4) 51 Mean to wander in again — to call again (6) 53 Am surrounded by being mistaken for a celebrity (3,4) 55 Next, I’ll be introduced as the kid’s father (5) 59 Tells one to do what the salesman wants (6) 60 Left in ‘Not bad. Shows talent’ (5) 61 Jack is a naughty boy! (5) 62 Is drunkenly sexist (6) 63 A fat winged creature? (9) 65 Semi-trained soldiers in occupation? That’s just great! (7) 66 In brief, amount given to girl (7) 70 Look! Half the restaurant has been demolished! (5) 71 The ones in blue, say are not yours (6) 73 Talk a little about the union (5) 75 Hackneyed and badly written. Cut beginning and end (5) 80 For a learner, includes a test (4) 82 Punch that’s just as a punch should be (5) 83 No, no. Not guns as toys! (7) 84 Quick to help with the drying up (6) 85 Mum is wrong to have loaned to (6) 86 See in Old English verbs are different (7) 87 A pet named ‘Banger’ (7,3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

13 Property (4,6) 14 Farm vehicle (7) 15 Presumption (6) 16 Contrive to (6) 17 Think (7) 18 Bullied (5) 19 Great many (4) 20 Hoax (5) 21 Tempest (5) 22 Hitches ride (6) 23 Listened to (5) 28 Charmingly (7) 30 Ship’s waiter (7) 33 Insipid (9) 36 Falsify books (6) 38 Bestow upon (5) 39 Quip (5) 40 Wander (6) 42 Effrontery (5) 43 Adore (7) 44 Basic necessity (6) 46 Marsh plant (4) 49 Fight (4) 51 Change title (6) 53 Celebrity (3,4) 55 Male goat (5) 59 Commands (6) 60 Talent (5) 61 Jack, in cards (5) 62 Is (6) 63 Insect (9) 65 Huge (7) 66 Résumé (7) 70 Gaze (5) 71 Repudiate (6) 73 Talk at length (5) 75 Banal (5) 80 Exam (4) 82 Correct (5) 83 Toys with (7) 84 Cue (6) 85 Mute (6) 86 Notice (7) 87 Dachshund (7,3)

DOWN

1 Mend (6) 2 Enjoyment (8) 3 Tree (5) 4 Animals (7) 5 Trader (6) 6 Soak (5) 7 Obvious (6) 8 Haughty (5-2) 9 Be unsuccessful (4,1,5) 10 Take lessons (5) 11 How surprising! (4,4) 12 Subpoena (4) 24 Determine (7) 25 Change (5) 26 Nationality (7) 27 Young actress (7) 29 Complain (5) 31 Follow (5) 32 Sway (4) 34 Enrage (6) 35 Pie (4) 37 Different (7) 41 Cocktail (7) 45 Cosset (6) 47 Deletion (7) 48 Preserved (7) 50 Occupation (7) 52 Intend (4) 54 Approaches (5) 56 Subsequently (5) 57 Demure (4) 58 Hesitate (5) 60 Believing gullibly (7,3) 64 Whodunit (8) 67 Besides (8) 68 Try to disprove (7) 69 Inconveniences (4,3) 72 Kind (6) 74 Language (6) 76 Excellent (6) 77 Runs (5) 78 Directed at (5) 79 Say (5) 81 Complain bitterly (4)

DOWN

1 Go off again before two (6) 2 Imbibing ales ordered: pure delight (8) 3 When taken to the enclosure, it trembles (5) 4 The animals chewed through the bars, somehow (7) 5 He’ll give you a hand — and help you buy a car? (6) 6 As prices are, when vehicles soak purchasers? (5) 7 Obvious the person being treated has lost heart (6) 8 Conceited, like those models on hoardings (5-2) 9 Be unsuccessful in an attempt to describe space? (4,1,5) 10 To go on point duty, prepared to learn (5) 11 Successfully cloned? I am surprised! (4,4) 12 Court order penned long ago (4) 24 Love’s renewed after again making vow (7) 25 Edit and ruin ‘56’ (5) 26 The son wished to change nationality (7) 27 Does she play little light roles? (7) 29 Complain about hot drink (5) 31 Follow swinging right with really good left (5) 32 Someone you can depend on to put baby to sleep (4) 34 Infuriate and mother goes back home (6) 35 A sweet and sour (4) 37 Revised — rewritten — is different (7) 41 Showing know-how in the mini cocktail (7) 45 Spoil. Upsetting plan by joining (6) 47 Rubbing out the age, of course (7) 48 Prevented from going off drunk (7) 50 Chasing after someone for a job? (7) 52 Plan A is to have troops surround (4) 54 Approaches one arsonist imprisoned (5) 56 Afterwards both sides had a meal inside (5) 57 On best behaviour with the President, on edge (4) 58 Hesitate to go back with strange man (5) 60 Being smitten, taken in by (7,3) 64 ‘The River Engulfs the Stream’ — a whodunit (8) 67 Besides being further across (8) 68 Cheat and try to dispute (7) 69 Forces to leave, which inconveniences (4,3) 72 Kind aunt is worried about (6) 74 A language buff (6) 76 Excellent advice, chief (6) 77 Runs, with the infants, right inside (5) 78 Intended to help me in (5) 79 Say the sun is at its height? (5) 81 Protest, upset by false witness (4)