Colossal Crossword
ACROSS 1 Pedal to make a vehicle go faster (11) 7 Velocity gauge (11) 12 Snapshot (5) 13 Headquarters (4) 15 Power (5) 16 Madagascan primate (5) 17 Mimicked (4) 19 Young hound (5) 20 Take away (6)
21 Hit with an open hand (4) 23 Part of a sleeve (4) 25 Industrial action (6) 28 Win over to a faith (7) 29 Spring back (7) 32 Vex, annoy (5) 33 Harvest (5)
34 Book a table, eg (7) 37 Roman digit? (7) 39 Cultivate (7) 41 Hugh —, English actor (6) 42 Closed (4)
44 Form of public transport (4) 46 Unbroken (6) 49 Talk over (7) 50 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance —, Western (3) 51 — Gardner, actress (3) 53 Motivation, incentive (7) 55 Commerce (5) 56 Billy —, 1980s singer whose songs are often political (5) 57 Contaminate (7) 58 Used to be (3) 60 Pouchlike plant part (3) 61 Truthfulness (7) 62 Party finger food (6) 64 Ancient Peruvian (4) 66 Garden building (4) 67 Help (6) 70 Ponder, meditate (on) (7) 71 Tidiest (7) 73 Autumn month (7) 75 Savoury jelly (5) 77 Male relation (5) 79 Saint of Assisi (7) 81 Bed cover (7) 84 Gambling house (6) 85 Alcoholic drink (4) 87 Believe, anticipate (4) 89 Cold season (6) 91 Sudden collapse (5) 92 Tip of a triangle (4) 93 Surgical glove material (5) 95 Unreactive (5) 97 Nuisance plant (4) 98 Answer (5) 99 Powerful car sport… (5, 6) 100 … and a final circuit of the track by the victor (3, 2, 6) DOWN 1 Traffic light colour (5) 2 Gustave —, Parisian landmark designer (6) 3 Ventilate (3)
4 The Threepenny —, play (5) 5 Contemplation (7) 6 Bung, cork (7) 8 Rice dish (5) 9 A Nightmare on — Street, supernatural horror film (3) 10 Female giant (6) 11 Crest of high ground (5) 14 Easy (6)
18 Purple Rain singer (6) 21 Gradient (5)
22 Stop from happening (7) 23 Display cupboard (7)
24 Duel with an epee? (5) 26 Ruin (5) 27 Giuseppe —, composer (5) 30 — Thomas, Welsh poet (5) 31 Grown-up (5) 35 Trademark (5) 36 Tropical fruit (5) 38 Benito —, Italian dictator (9) 40 Marvellous! (9) 43 Six-sided shape (7) 45 Make progress (7) 47 Plant with daisy-like flower (5) 48 Of little weight (5) 49 Hummus, eg (3) 50 Location of the Royal Botanic Gardens (3)
52 Hit for the Jackson 5 (1, 1, 1) 54 — sauce, Asian cooking ingredient (3) 59 Rigid (5)
60 US city where 17th-century witch trials took place (5) 62 Pinkish colour (5) 63 Boxing blow (5) 65 One of a class of objects (7)
66 Gut (7) 68 Stunted vegetation (5) 69 Dogma (5)
72 Hurl (5) 74 Corpulent (5) 76 Chase (6)
78 Cows (6) 80 Refuge (7) 81 Blackberry bush (7)
82 Shirt part (6) 83 Exchange, swap (6) 84 Abyss (5) 86 Richard —,
37th president of America (5) 88 Seance board (5) 90 Navigation method (5) 94 Nervous twitch (3) 96 Umberto —, writer (3)