Colossal Crossword

ACROSS

School boss… (4, 7)

… and a pupil’s bursary (11)

Northeastern

Italian city (5)

Sail pole (4)

The Mystery of — Drood, unfinished novel by Charles Dickens (5)

Lone Ranger’s sidekick (5) — She Lovely,

Stevie Wonder track (4)

19 One of a flight of steps (5)

20 Curio (6)

21 — Flintstone,

animated caveman (4)

23 Overtake (4)

25 Inform, tell (6)

28 Richard —, magnate (7)

29 Marked like a zebra (7)

32 Outsider (5)

33 — the Boardwalk, song (5)

34 Coal container (7)

37 Grand National course (7)

39 Routine medical (7)

41 Become smaller (6)

42 Horse-drawn vehicle (4)

44 Foot garment (4)

46 Scarcity (6)

49 One fleeing danger (7) 1 7

12

13 15

16 17 50 Possibly might (3)

51 Enemy (3)

53 Properly arranged (2, 5)

55 Irish county (5)

56 Extra time to sleep? (3-2)

57 Part of an airport (7)

58 Rubbish dump (3)

60 — Ramsey, 1966 World Cup

football manager (3)

61 Expert, veteran (3, 4)

62 Grumble,

complain (6)

64 Crustacean (4)

66 Pigeon shelter (4)

67 Even though (6)

70 Maya —, late US writer (7)

71 Range of hearing (7)

73 Sad dramatic work (7)

75 — syrup, waffle topping (5)

77 Spiral-horned

antelope (5)

79 Revert to a

former state (7)

81 Add seasoning (7)

84 Danny Boyle thriller (6)

85 — and the Tramp, film (4)

87 Caledonian (4)

89 Long-legged shore bird (6)

91 Madrid’s country (5)

92 Slightly

leavened bread (4) 93 — Andronicus,

73 Across (5)

95 The Threepenny —, play (5)

97 — Britton, presenter (4)

98 Cooked breakfast (3-2)

99 Academic test… (11)

100 … and its

supervisor (11)

DOWN

Poet who wrote the Iliad (5) — Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited (6)

3 Raven’s sound (3)

4 — Wise, comic (5)

5 Funny sketch (7)

6 Unsure, suspicious (7)

8 Panna —, dessert (5)

9 — up, confess (to) (3)

10 Consecrate (6)

11 Glazier’s paste (5)

14 Vicar’s homily (6)

18 Appropriate (6)

21 Primary (5)

22 Cut up in a lab (7)

23 Maybe (7)

24 — tooth, strong

liking for sugary foods (5)

26 Interdental cleaner (5)

27 — Welles,

film-maker (5) 1 2 30 Line of people (5)

31 Comb hair, eg (5)

35 — money, cash (5)

36 Small light

rowing boat (5)

38 Principal

college lecturer (9)

40 Completed university (9)

43 Accounts checker (7)

45 King Arthur’s realm (7)

47 — James, US outlaw (5)

48 Below legal age (5)

49 Mythical bird (3)

50 Bon —, clever remark (3)

52 Festive comedy

with Will Ferrell (3)

54 — Stewart, musician (3)

59 Barbara Windsor’s

Eastenders character (5)

60 Garlic mayonnaise (5)

62 Garden ornament (5)

63 Chimney cleaner (5)

65 Power unit (7)

66 Pirate’s curved sword? (7)

68 — Cake, 2004 movie (5)

69 — Swinton, actress (5)

72 Bloat (5)

74 Haggard, drawn (5)

76 Republic neighbouring Colombia and

Costa Rica (6) 78 Member of a

Native American people (6)

80 Ceremonial staff (7)

81 Tiredness (7)

82 Church caretaker (6)

83 Italian sausage (6)

84 Hint of colour (5)

86 Dance club (5)

88 Regal headwear (5)

90 Luciano Pavarotti, eg (5)

94 Sound of disapproval (3)

96 — Wallach, late actor (3) Solutions in Monday’s

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