THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 13 Rehearsing the doctor role? (10) 14 Someone teasing a social network (7) 15 Paddy, the salesman, met with setback (6) 16 Goes round carrying four containers (6) 17 Coils round base of leg and is painful (7) 18 Name ‘Letitia’, change; two letters too long (5) 19 Alert and brisk, see right through (4) 20 Very little tin and copper (5) 21 Joined together on a Sunday, end of June; married (5) 22 Digresses and speaks about their lacking heart (6) 23 Something that’s gone wrong with a lift (5) 28 Small number imbibed, being in need of a drink (7) 30 Straight northwards, then east (7) 33 Cleaner will act as chaperon for girl (9) 36 Basic necessity sold at stationer’s (6) 38 One among the lady’s beneficiaries (5) 39 Force to solve — simple: small subtraction (5) 40 Holding hard, hope to push with force (6) 42 String child got in a tangle (5) 43 The former, I note, was compiled by myself (3-4) 44 Rascal is given one of the prawns (6) 46 With one arm, holding close (4) 49 — fly! (4) 51 Complains when tables are turned (6) 53 Break it in drunken spree (7) 55 Drink to, when a drink comes round (5) 59 Order, cutting out the middleman (6) 60 Ring the number, greeting me (5) 61 The female performing has a long neck and slim body (5) 62 Capital L, no, no D; that’s wrong (6) 63 Cold and shivering, one is brought inside and settled (9) 65 What the foot that skidded was wearing? (7) 66 Brief encounters with artists’ tools (7) 70 Even going fifty-fifty with girl in (5) 71 Tries, yes, to manoeuvre the animal back inside (6) 73 What’s that flower, daddy? (5) 75 Only little rain and little sun in break (5) 80 Making comeback, surpasses, you see (4) 82 Beats convincingly, laps (5) 83 Fowl, gold-backed duck, having rest after flying (7) 84 Someone who looks after money (6) 85 Is depressed about and will refuse to acknowledge (6) 86 Clever clogs said there’s something missing from tool kit (4-3) 87 Very noticeable when one spoke (10) DOWN 1 To cook, going by the book, I sear, stirring (6) 2 Glass boat (8) 3 Beginning with the trees at that end (5) 4 The number is next wrongly divided by a quarter (7) 5 An hour after midnight get in drunk and spark off (6) 6 He does (5) 7 Rues the absence of dateable girls (6) 8 Standing, look round you, in Paris (7) 9 Almost fully recovered — near enough (6,4) 10 Something very hard to adjust in fifty per cent of telescopes (5) 11 Being members of demolition gang is great (8) 12 Animal in the grass, standing (4) 24 Caught Santa parcelling up a game (7) 25 The alternative is to carry an additional one (5) 26 Order various wines to be sent round: sweet (7) 27 Belong to and fix bad tear in (7) 29 Devise scheme to provide access to floor below (5) 31 Write ‘PICTURE’ (5) 32 Chuck down stones and shout to attract attention (4) 34 Transmute paper into silver? (6) 35 Story, very good, set in the City (4) 37 Please — that went out with the dodo! (7) 41 Exhausted, after sprint to the bottom (3-4) 45 Gracious! The unit is involved in a rising (6) 47 Don’t do it — salt will leave a mark (7) 48 Possibly E sharp, played on the piano (7) 50 Swim round in sea, awfully fat (7) 52 ‘End of story,’ you say (4) 54 The bag is, presumably, half unpacked (5) 56 Walked off with and walked quietly (5) 57 You and I will fit (4) 58 Bright beam or a scowl (5) 60 A tart, ‘Scantily clad girls!’ (10) 64 Passed out in the open, nothing is all right (8) 67 Hitting with a really beautiful punch? (8) 68 The love of father and son is moving (7) 69 Contend the din is made by a bird (7) 72 ‘Sunday best’ is really funny (6) 74 Recorded for one to listen in to (2,4) 76 Small weeds chopped up and eaten as vegetables (6) 77 An inclination to present news unfairly (5) 78 Sitter the little child is hugging (5) 79 Lost, wandering around inside, one may sit on it (5) 81 Sleep engulfing one, getting up is a nuisance (4)