QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 12 Win easily (3,4,4) 13 Warm jacket (6) 14 Wedded to a
routine (2,1,3) 16 Band around
waist (4) 17 Fabled (9) 18 Shiny material (5)
19 Conceal (4) 20 Payments to
an author (9) 22 Philanderer (5) 23 Pleasurable
walk (9) 27 Eight-sided
figure (7) 30 Important
person (6) 31 Raise (4) 32 Sediment (5) 35 Fuse (4) 36 Commercial
cargo (7)
38 39 42 45 46 47 48 Built-up Live entertainment Study Prevent Excess Aristocrat Fruit’s (4,2) skin (7) area (5) (4) (4) (4) (7) 50 52 54 Cooking Planetary Find a comfortable room path (7) (5)
56 position Merrymaking (6) (7) 57 Horny part
of foot (4) 59 Accomplishment
(7) 61 Male rabbit (4) 64 Turn red (5) 66 Colony of bees (4) 67 Most
favourably (2,4) 69 Yield (4,3) 72 From the cask (2,7) 73 Broken piece (5) 74 Type of suit (9) 79 Official authority (4) 81 Wading bird (5) 82 Hospitality to all (4,5) 83 Notch (4) 85 Bite (6) 86 Surface of slabs (6) 87 Humiliate (4,1,4,2)
DOWN 1 Mound of sand (4) 2 Repeated
phrase (6) 3 Small village (6) 4 Arrogant air (7) 5 Tolerate (5) 6 Dramatist (10) 7 Brewing
ingredient (5) 8 More
fortunate (6,3) 9 Call
incorrectly (7) 10 Money (4) 11 Blind person’s
helper (5,3) 15 Left
unploughed (6) 21 At the right
moment (2,3) 24 Recount (7) 25 Shake (6) 26 Scowl (6) 28 Make rotten (5) 29 Fool (3) 33 Punishment (7) 34 Priest (6) 37 Giant figure (5) 40 Register (5)
41 Bet (7) 43 Like a sheep (5) 44 Indian dish (6) 46 News exclusive (5) 49 Chest of
drawers (7) 51 Rugby forward (6) 53 Medical
examination (6) 55 Curved sword (5) 58 Potentially dangerous place (10) 60 Slide over snow (3) 62 Fastening (5) 63 Acrobats’ wire (9) 65 Very unlikely
winner (4,4) 68 Onus (6) 70 In an unobtrusive
way (7) 71 Tar for roads (7) 75 Dispose of (3,3)
76 Go short (3,3) 77 Cooker (5)
78 Bundle (5) 80 Danger (4) 84 Poultry cage (4)