GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS ON MONDAY
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
13 Dodgy link with a peril
for aspirin, maybe (10)
14 Model Conservative former governor
hosting Republican (7)
15 Love to occupy a part of apartment
block in a solvent state? (6)
16 Secret person adopting a new
faith with no end of passion (6)
17 Tie down range of retail
outlets ahead (5,2)
18 Old man on return concealed
a problem for gardeners? (5)
19 Some undergrowth
encountered afterward (4)
20 A sailor protecting
women in conflict (2,3)
21 Examine place to breed
horses close to Kentucky (5)
22 Catch section of hospital
getting criticism (6)
23 Yankee after reversal of
fate is temperamental (5)
28 Henry is given time to go round
bend for transport of goods (7)
30 Attendant followed by worker
in procession (7)
33 Strange calm seen around opening
of business in apparent form (9)
36 Note principal without fine
computing expert (6)
38 Plentiful source of pudding
in meal when cooked (5)
39 These crumpled part
of a newspaper (5)
40 Cause of infuriation about
boring experience (3,3)
42 Work of art not for all
to see in nation (5)
43 Band initially is divided about
current teatime food? (7)
44 In condensed form, last part of consignment is put in renovated depot (6)
46 Stand featuring in service, we’re
told, for alcoholic drink (4)
49 Resounding noise found in the choir (4) 51 Get rid of first reserve tool
for snowy climbs? (3,3)
53 Smooth strike to secure victory (7)
55 Reprimand son facing
problem in winter (5)
59 Hole in ground affected
terrace mostly (6)
60 Long for underground
area? About right (5)
61 Staff depart to get fruit (5)
62 Time we have shortly to
embrace liberal figure (6)
63 All-female organisation strike about a source of bigotry in a jolting way? (4,1,4)
65 Remain undecided about two
directions nonetheless (7)
66 Produce as if by magic remedy
covering Ohio and New Jersey (7)
70 Cat-sized mammal declined around
eastern side of creek (5)
71 Delivery vehicle of a rough
sort has to disappear (6)
73 Place to carry uniform in jet (5)
75 European is taken with
thin, dark wood (5)
80 Hairstyle with curls
for a change (4)
82 Fake online diary left
exposed by American (5)
83 Approve two businesses acquiring
concession ultimately (7)
84 Make available for use a French
feature in a canal (6)
85 Additional outrageous behaviour (6) 86 Cover even ramshackle line
introducing work (7)
87 Rex after unusually big dinner
reordered file (4,6)
DOWN
1 Playfully move around with unconventional actor touring first of venues (6)
2 Denial? It is analysed
exhaustively (2,6)
3 Fragmentary book characterised
by humour? Not initially (5)
4 Mollify a head of college when
engaged in competition (7)
5 Minor task here essentially
managed by director (6)
6 Strike ending in deadlock
after stretch of time (5)
7 Main plate’s smashed (6)
8 Surprisingly great team regularly
in series of boat races (7)
9 Engineer near the lot is
highly attentive (2,3,5)
10 Ribald graduate with those
on the fringes of decency (5)
11 Hear plot after cultivation
produces an abundance (8)
12 Bar to keep money (4)
24 Order cited at work (7)
25 Rue missing top wading bird (5)
26 Bet fine is modified to
gain advantage (7)
27 Old baronet with an impolite
manner has to stick out (7)
29 Turn away a former military type
around back of shelter (5)
31 A pungent substance falling short
in savoury jelly (5)
32 Inquisitive number supposedly
after vacation (4)
34 Simplistic account
found in dossier (6)
35 Toy bricks kept in pile gone (4)
37 Entertainer dropping second measure in eager haste (7)
41 Journalist put up with faulty
cable? It’s a total failure (7)
45 Overbearing figure wrongly
got in ahead of duke (3,3)
47 Model is bored having
to shed clothes (7)
48 Sleep in small wood in the U.S. (7) 50 Characterising one in an estate
having related complaint? (3-4)
52 Cross artist is given unknown
diagnostic image (1-3)
54 Flinch with first sign of
contraband in port, say (5)
56 Start to leave a set of deliveries
for romantic partner (5)
57 Nothing is stored in
boozer, oddly (4)
58 Fit of temper from rector in unconventional post (5) 60 American GP treated is activist for a cause (10) 64 Transfer made by hospital overlooking town in Hampshire (8) 67 Judge and bishop inspired by refined sort of Latin are full of joy? (8)
68 Military intelligence dubiously vies to suppress second communication (7) 69 Increase team with gun in play (7) 72 Terrible cheek about learner getting to be disruptive to a speaker? (6)
74 Gripping tools from those providing goods missing drink (6)
76 Steal article in Spain or coin in the U.S. (6)
77 Deep chasm in area next to ship (5) 78 Verbally attack leader of squad on Northern Ireland exercise (5) 79 Set aside pint finally in drinking haunt overlooking yard (3,2) 81 Cunning British actress
grabbing kiss (4)