THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
12 Old boy soon possibly accepts fellow as shrewd person (7,4) 13 Old man taking in a deity in Eastern temple (6) 14 Get in boat at sea (6) 16 Daughter before student festivity has tedious experience (4) 17 Pays for screwdriver, say, and furniture item (9) 18 It could be used to stir up heat in card game (5) 19 Sway dependable person (4) 20 Strict convention from Italy that’s changed (9) 22 Mistake wearing affected clothing (5) 23 Bod on site for renovation gets to contribute fairly (2,4,3) 27 Rubbish returns after start of year for caretaker (7) 30 Breakfast cereal for all to see amid horrid slime (6) 31 Entertain some French ostentatiously (4) 32 Director faces a large number in preliminary sketch (5) 35 Sun that is skirting zone has magnitude (4) 36 Peggy with support rejected pictorial chart (7) 38 Bring home container for tea, we’re told (4) 39 Sentimental singer or one faltering among choir’s outsiders (7) 42 I love variegated head of this purple flower (6) 45 Faithful characters in play oldies recalled (5) 46 Hear about ancient disaster (7) 47 Denial by American showing common sense (4) 48 Notion from confidential assistant, first to last (4) 50 Count AI peculiar showing wariness (7) 52 By the sound of it, wrinkle is genuine (5) 54 One city nothing less revolutionised in subtle form? (6) 56 Clarify former proposal about India (7) 57 Wicked troublemaker concealing face (4) 59 Lessen day and another left in port, say (7) 61 Republican given award in dress (4) 64 Estimate graduate’s initial period of time round university (5) 66 British sailor kept back troublesome child (4) 67 Indifference in chap at hypermarket (6) 69 Style of walk to consider, it’s said, as means of entry (7) 72 Top golf do after makeover shows illusory riches (3,2,4) 73 Fat ticket seller behind rear of pubs (5) 74 Priest with hat unsettled counsellor maybe (9) 79 Time in reserve to get short pencil? (4) 81 Legal hearing a distressing experience (5) 82 Refer to good Frenchman in retreat being vigorous (9) 83 Some leap on yearling, small horse (4) 85 Supercilious type backed excellent tree cultivation (6) 86 Standard new exam about maths principally (6) 87 With last character gone, lazy bar type I fancy has to improvise (4,2,2,3) ACROSS 12 Shrewd person (7,4) 13 Eastern temple (6) 14 Get (6) 16 Pull (4) 17 Furniture item (9) 18 Card game (5) 19 Sway (4) 20 Stiffness (9)
QUICK CLUES
22 Mistake (5) 23 Contribute fairly (2,4,3) 27 Caretaker (7) 30 Breakfast cereal (6) 31 Entertain (4) 32 Preliminary sketch (5) 35 Magnitude (4) 36 Pictorial plan (7) 38 Deserve (4) 39 Sentimental singer (7) 42 Bluish purple (6) 45 Faithful (5) 46 Disaster (7) 47 Common sense (4) 48 Notion (4) 50 Wariness (7) 52 Genuine (5) 54 Delicacy (6) 56 Clarify (7) 57 Wicked (4) 59 Decrease (7) 61 Dress (4) 64 Estimate (5) 66 Troublesome child (4) 67 Indifference (6) 69 Means of entry (7) 72 Illusory riches (3,2,4) 73 Fat (5) 74 Non-surgical practitioner (9) 79 Counterfoil (4) 81 Test (5) 82 Vigorous (9) 83 Small horse (4) 85 Dwarf tree cultivation (6) 86 Standard (6) 87 Improvise (4,2,2,3)
DOWN 1 Extended journey (4) 2 Fairground car (6) 3 Attractive person (6) 4 Vaguely (2,5) 5 Accommodate (5) 6 Lively type (4,2,4) 7 Cornfield flower (5) 8 Unknown candidate (4,5) 9 Rushing stream (7) 10 Rouse (4) 11 Petty wrong (8) 15 Swampy land (6) 21 African ruminant (5) 24 Cut of beef (7) 25 Hunted animal (6) 26 Mountain guide (6) 28 Perfect (5) 29 Peculiar (3) 33 Argue (4,3) 34 Colouring pencil (6) 37 Fruit (5) 40 Break out (5) 41 Roofed terrace (7) 43 List of contents (5) 44 Strategic manoeuvre (6) 46 Lukewarm (5) 49 Briskly (7) 51 Attract (6) 53 Titled figure (6) 55 Damn (5) 58 Go first as guide (4,3,3) 60 Period (3) 62 Alloy (5) 63 Superb (9) 65 Taking over (8) 68 Charm (6) 70 Self-aggrandising action (3-4) 71 Sleep (4-3) 75 Repeat from memory (6) 76 Tropical fruit (6) 77 Dazzling light (5) 78 Quick-moving (5) 80 Lie in sun (4) 84 Orderly (4)
DOWN
1 Winding route endlessly extended journey (4) 2 Avoid male in fairground car (6) 3 See beginnings of flab upsetting loosely attractive person (6) 4 Oscar followed by fine types roughly (2,5) 5 Accommodate some boarding students (5) 6 Offer a bill that’s troubled lively type (4,2,4) 7 Father proudly pouring out heart for flower (5) 8 Unknown candidate from obscure bay, perhaps (4,5) 9 Rushing stream and river bordering Oregon (7) 10 Rouse commotion (4) 11 Frenchman is leading minor wrong? (8) 15 Artist is enthralled by clumpy plants in swampy land (6) 21 Approval given by a noted number for African ruminant (5) 24 Gentleman spilt oil over Northern cut of beef (7) 25 Hunted animal in excavated area? (6) 26 Mountain guide garbled phrase (6) 28 Croupier’s introduction, maybe, is perfect (5) 29 Peculiar element in flood described (3) 33 Happen to quarrel (4,3) 34 Crony is excited to hold a colouring pencil (6) 37 First person cut extended fruit (5) 40 Break out at college in middle of Perth (5) 41 Queen enters London museum to see roofed terrace (7) 43 It’s used for pointing at list of contents (5) 44 Automatic response about exploit in strategic manoeuvre (6) 46 Lukewarm source of protein in revolutionary way of eating (5) 49 Moving briskly in bars? (7) 51 Encourage support lately amid popular struggle (6) 53 Dark period reported for man on board (6) 55 Damn educational series barring circle (5) 58 Awfully wealthy head after leaving hotel to act as guide? (4,3,3) 60 Long period in earlier antiquity (3) 62 Effrontery in singer? About right (5) 63 Superb train Bill reconstructed (9) 65 Taking up commercial choice (8) 68 A Greek character allowed charm (6) 70 Self-aggrandising action say over jaunt (3-4) 71 Sleep they use for regeneration (4-3) 75 Repeat from memory two notes about college and institute (6) 76 Tropical fruit always consumed by father (6) 77 Rage wildly about learner’s dazzling light (5) 78 Quick-moving U.S. serviceman breaking a limb almost (5) 80 Bachelor has request to lie in sun (4) 84 Orderly figure turns up round area (4)