Colossal Crossword
ACROSS
1 People looking for votes… (11)
7 … and the work they do to persuade balloters they’re right (11) 12 Exclusive press story (5) 13 Street (4) 15 Exaggeratedly manly (5) 16 Egg-shaped (5) 17 Chimney (4) 19 Muscle contraction (5) 20 Ringed planet (6) 21 — Rabbit, literary trickster (4)
23 Full of keen anticipation (4) 25 Colouring stick (6) 28 Crush underfoot (7) 29 Liked by the majority (7) 32 Greek underworld (5) 33 Edible innards (5) 34 Bearing, carriage (7) 37 Choose to refrain (7) 39 True to character (7) 41 Funny skit (6) 42 Quote (4) 44 Become fatigued (4) 46 Astute (6) 49 Supply (7)
50 — and cry, public uproar (3)
51 Dark viscous substance (3)
53 Lie partly across (7) 55 Love deeply (5) 56 Tim —, actor and comic (5)
57 One of the title characters in The Three Musketeers (7) 58 Edible tuber (3) 60 Dairy animal (3) 61 Sewing finger protector (7) 62 Canine mammal (6) 64 Toothed wheel (4) 66 Catch sight of (4) 67 Affront (6) 70 Occasion when day and night are of equal length (7) 71 Foreboding (7) 73 Spouse of a monarch (7) 75 Island in the Ionian Sea (5) 77 Cartoon magazine (5) 79 Receive from a will (7) 81 Biblical moral tale (7) 84 Carpentry tool (6) 85 Times long past (4) 87 Former Russian leader (4) 89 Bring back to life (6) 91 Emblem (5)
92 — Major, constellation (4) 93 Hard dark wood (5) 95 Oak tree seed (5) 97 White cheese in brine (4) 98 Restrict (5) 99 Elections slip (6, 5) 100 PR people for 1 Across (4, 7)
DOWN
1 French capital (5) 2 Resistant to disease (6) 3 Monsters, —, family film (3) 4 Hangman’s halter (5) 5 Ceremonial staff (7) 6 Laud, venerate (7) 8 In the midst of (5) 9 In favour of (3) 10 Charge with a crime (6)
11 Golf putting area (5) 14 Be present (6) 18 Dismissal, redundancy (6) 21 Explode (5) 22 Copiously supplied (with) (7) 23 Road-covering material (7)
24 Tall mythical monster (5) 26 and 90
Red-headed DJ and television presenter (5, 5) 27 Savoury jelly (5) 30 Portion of the year (5) 31 Window shade (5) 35 Outer —, universe (5) 36 Scarcely sufficient (5) 38 Representative government (9) 40 Movement which Tony Blair led to power (3, 6) 43 Sales note (7) 45 Pickled herring dish (7) 47 Brutal person (5) 48 Lone Ranger’s companion (5) 49 Young seal (3) 50 — Joe, Jimi Hendrix hit (3) 52 Uncooked (3) 54 — chart, representation of data divided into sectors (3) 59 Tycoon (5) 60 Crockery (5)
62 Fruit drink (5) 63 Concerning (5) 65 Spare player (7) 66 Passage from a book (7)
68 Nick (5) 69 Flashlight (5) 72 Childminder (5)
74 Of the sun (5)
76 Half the width of a circle (6) 78 Spite (6) 80 Ill-fated liner (7) 81 Antarctic sea bird (7) 82 Business customer (6) 83 Marlon —, star of The Godfather (6) 84 Fragment of bread (5) 86 Nursery poem? (5) 88 Skin of the head (5) 90 See 26 Down 94 Rita — singer and former judge on The X Factor (3) 96 Possess (3)