GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS ON MONDAY
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Freely show emotion with unsound
scheme completed (6,4) 14 Oxfordshire town after switching
directions makes loss (7) 15 Cue man prepared showing
shrewdness (6) 16 Time taken by French composer
for journeys (6) 17 Presume model is after drink (7) 18 Portable light held by doctor
charitably (5) 19 Reduced prices on goods,
small beer (4) 20 Sun over year on lake starts to
produce happy spirit in the air (5) 21 Shelter person in field? (5) 22 Source of irritation in Hertfordshire town proves wearisome (6) 23 Manage to pass (3,2) 28 Cold or rain that’s affected rotting
animal flesh (7) 30 Best part in old Lima possibly (7) 33 Female expert given the best
cosmetic (4,5) 36 Previous condition shown by
monarch (6) 38 By the sound of it, I celebrate
decoration on cake (5) 39 Fear study behind onset of
disease (5) 40 First sign of this dislodged earth
shows source of danger (6) 42 Ornamental stone thereby’s casing
pier (5) 43 U.S. actor ignoring companion,
one in a pool? (7) 44 Inappropriately mention boring
experience at college (4,2) 46 Cut snack (4) 49 Put favourable slant on short
trip in car (4) 51 Punctual U.S. magazine employee’s
job description? (2,4) 53 Deprive by cheating fantastic duo
of pot with power expended (2,3,2) 55 Rex in big rage covered in hair (5) 59 Men etc assembled building
material (6) 60 Theologian followed by lecturer in
old yard in a strange way (5) 61 Slender course’s ending in
gooey mud (5) 62 Take away bad cut after
cooking (6) 63 Criticise a fund fit for reform after
pocketing pounds (4,5) 65 Husband gets wrong fish (7) 66 Drab mob after revolution subject
to blows (7) 70 Trust mobilised support (5) 71 Sprinkled ash found in Australian
sports car makes one stupefied (6) 73 Soprano with little money
for perfume (5) 75 Habit shown by king, unsteady
crank without queen (5) 80 Pole almost surplus to
requirements (4) 82 Admit line is wrong about
temperature (3,2) 83 Film unusually cool musical
instrument (7) 84 Firm beginning to fix payment for
hot drink (6) 85 Two learners love to get into
enjoyment that’s intense (4-2) 86 Old-fashioned tour now off (7) 87 Varied help based around building’s entrance for wall coating (10)
DOWN
1 Animal that’s hunted in open
excavation (6) 2 A British opera revised to include verse is better than average (5,3) 3 Answer about work (5) 4 European so vain sadly making
attempt to avoid charge (7) 5 Ride taken by the French
threefold (6) 6 Descent from court in restricted
resort (5) 7 Feature in space analysed
over time (6) 8 Place caring for a queen? (7) 9 Nigeria had novel device for
deafness (7,3) 10 Yankee broke up chat in
sailing vessel (5) 11 Supply beer and smut? It’s poor
suggestion (3,5) 12 Place offering water in sound
condition (4) 24 Renovated lab with light brown tiles
principally? That’s obvious (7) 25 Argument over railway
producing concern (5) 26 Misleading sign permitted for
garment (7) 27 Depart upset with leader of
extensive bureaucracy (3,4) 29 Single gangster supported
by Spain (5) 31 On a regular basis, part in some
refracting block (5) 32 Assistant with plan to cycle (4) 34 Badly lit comic is a fool (6) 35 A contemporary look (4) 37 Nervous team in front of exhibits for afternoon performance (7) 41 Awful bore with a French degree
gets to spring back (7) 45 Behave abjectly over criminal in
gaol’s confines (6) 47 Most pan irregular deliverer of
mail (7) 48 Partner is type to support
right-winger (7) 50 Foretell what advertising executives
might lay down? (7) 52 Way shown by Frenchman with
poetic work (4) 54 Workers’ group from a French club
right away (5) 56 Note copper beginning to react? It gets to happen again (5) 57 Burning pile, element in unhappy requiem (4) 58 Wheeled cart currently turning up carrying silver (5) 60 A boy almost toiling mistakenly as a duty (10) 64 Director with odd part, it’s said, in percussive beat (4,4) 67 Genuine doctor if bad one (4,4) 68 Get a man to work for tycoon (7) 69 Fashionable thing associated with Thomas? That’s uncertain (2,5) 72 Crufts’ champion, say, is dominant sort (3,3) 74 Cut pay marginally? That’s rough (6) 76 Sides in clash emerge strangely lightweight and inferior (6) 77 Guy’s first to secure organ (5) 78 Meagre characters in Tuscan town (5) 79 Measure part of a fish (5) 81 Penny disclosed sulky expression (4)
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