Colossal Crossword
ACROSS
Property dealer (6, 5) Home occupier with a long-term agreement (11) Ground meat (5) Ancient Celtic poet (4) Paddled craft (5) Love deity (5) Become threadbare (4)
19 Swoon (5)
20 Start again (6)
21 Stalk (4)
23 Scheme (4)
25 Hard teeth coating (6) 28 Make content (7)
29 Concise, terse (7)
32 Observe (5)
33 Full accounts
check (5)
34 Point of view (7)
37 From overseas (7)
39 Pasta parcels (7)
41 Paltry (6)
42 Sacred (4)
44 Wine bottle
stopper (4)
46 Alloy of
tin and lead (6)
49 Compress tightly (7)
50 Flying mammal (3) 1 7
12 13 15 16 17
Possesses (3) Central body area (7)
55 Lariat loop (5)
56 Lukewarm (5)
57 Went to 50 Down (7) 58 River barrier (3)
60 Weep (3)
61 Protected (7)
62 Squat down low (6) 64 Consumer (4)
66 Feel sorry for (4)
67 Sewing style (6)
70 Perform surgery (7) 71 Fast train (7)
73 Gives an earned treat (7) Centre of attention (5)
77 Ceasefire (5)
79 Extend (7)
81 Cigar (7)
84 Vegetable (6)
85 Insolent (4)
87 Branch offshoot (4) 89 Join the armed services (6) Compel (5) Container for eggs (4) Chef’s garment (5) 51 53 75 91 92
93 95 Jewish leader (5)
97 Costly (4)
98 Trap (5)
99 Solicitor specialising in
property contracts (11) 100 Official document awarded on completion of an academic course (11)
DOWN
Glowing coal (5) Engraved (6) Aromatic spirit (3) Relation (5)
At last (7) Disgrace, outrage (7) Surpass (5) Concession (3) Concealed (6) Regal (5) Outcome (6) Help to recollect (6) Barcelona’s country (5)
22 Stonework (7)
23 Major ocean (7)
24 Sound (5)
26 Mass of bees (5) 27 Church singers (5) 30 Group of
mountains (5) 1 2 3 4 5 6
8 9 10 11 14 18 21
Guide, direct (5) Turn out of a residence (5)
36 Sports trainer (5)
38 Estimate of worth (9) 40 Tax paid by house
purchasers (5, 4)
43 Sea creature with
eight tentacles (7) 45 Admiration (7)
47 Flexible (5)
48 Pinned emblem (5) 49 Polite male
address (3)
50 Sleeping place (3)
52 Pigpen (3)
54 Gesture of assent (3) 59 Scale replica (5)
60 Ointment (5)
62 Rub harshly (5)
63 Salad garnish (5)
65 Gymkhana ribbon (7) 66 Ideal (5)
68 Flavour (5)
69 Hive product (5)
72 Helicopter hub (5)
74 Included with (5)
76 Spiky plant (6)
78 Tennis official (6)
80 Female protagonist in
a novel or movie (7) 31 35 81 Musical show (7)
82 Study of flora (6)
83 Easing of pain
or stress (6)
84 Frenzied hurry (5)
86 Thick (5)
88 Inferior (5)
90 — Stooges, American
comedy troupe (5) 94 Manage, supervise (3) 96 Wager (3)
Solutions in Monday’s Daily Mirror