THE GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

12 Observe fan fidgeting round start of game, worried person (3,2,6) 13 Violet colour behind Igor in part (6) 14 Snare colleague almost making comeback (6) 16 Drag in students’ residence, we hear (4) 17 Inauguration is concise as planned (9) 18 Period mentioned for herb (5) 19 Way metre goes with poem (4) 20 I term wind swirling in normally chilly period (9) 22 Understand guy’s first criticism about son (5) 23 Neat local is disturbed suddenly (3,2,4) 27 Present as genuine licence on holiday (4,3) 30 Doctor came in place for screenings? (6) 31 Cut short weed (4) 32 Entice worker casually employed over time (5) 35 That man will have horrible experience (4) 36 Deposit for cooking a cut of beef (7) 38 English film on a big scale (4) 39 Clarinet played with no end of passion in concert (7) 42 Suppress a racket sport (6) 45 Preserve poem at college (3,2) 46 Possibly I note a large thing needing cutting? (7) 47 Advantage in promise after leaving place (4) 48 Fix proposal to cover North (4) 50 Man serving in pub is showing reason (7) 52 Warning in part relayed on way back (5) 54 First person given time to take in river is thin (6) 56 Disruptive noises beset second sitting (7) 57 Criticise social function (4) 59 Supply edited video behind advertising work (7) 61 Small measure popular with church (4) 64 Two points for instance in student’s work? (5) 66 A card one might play in social group (4) 67 Staff get on and cope (6) 69 Good man with Oscar I term largely uncomplaining (7) 72 Titled figure abroad at a disadvantage in immediate run-up (9) 73 Pester a British royal (5) 74 Unsurpassed — and lacking competition? (9) 79 Recall ineffectual types in a lather (4) 81 Different trouble with bishop gone (5) 82 Arid canon that’s turned out to be very severe (9) 83 Wicked element in Berkshire village (4) 85 Correct professional in short businessman backed (6) 86 Give up work and go to bed (6) 87 I wanted peer sacked amid difficulty (2,4,5)

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