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Giant Crossword

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ACROSS

12 Nonplussed (9)

14 Tightrope for funambulis­ts (4,4)

Apiece (4)

Capital of Afghanista­n (5) Equine leg joint (7)

Very different (from) (1,3,3) Tea‑making vessel (3) Picture in your mind (7) Practiser of an Indian religion (5)

Decelerate­d (6)

Push forward (5)

Academy (9) Change‑round (9)

___ rehearsal, practice in costume (5)

Female domestic servant (4)

Assessor (6)

Within a troublesom­e situation (2,1,3)

Confusing (7)

Brainwave (4)

Forbidden (2,2)

Select carefully or thoughtful­ly (4)

People of common descent (5)

Articulate (5)

Traverse (5,4)

Frothy, full of suds (5) Japanese girl trained to entertain (6)

Bored (3,2)

Open square in Spain (5) From then on (4,5)

Sauna (5,4)

Style from the past (5)

Rove in search of prey (5) Rust‑proof plating material (6)

Futuristic literary genre (3‑2)

Fluctuatin­g (2,3,4)

Annual prize for peace (5) Musical beat (5) Fermenting grape juice (4) Size (4) 15 16 19 20 21 22 23

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49

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73

75 77 78 83 85 86 88 90

Parklife singers (4) Pressurise­d spray can (7) Story in published instalment­s (6)

Chewy nutty sweet (6) Brand‑name crackers (4) Exudes (5)

University city near Morecambe (9)

Alien (9)

Betting amount (5) Brother and sister‑in‑law’s son (6)

104 Clever prank (5)

108 Hard hairy seed of the palm tree (7)

Rifle, for instance (3)

Early Irish saint and voyager (7)

113 Sleeping noisily (7)

115 Confine within bounds (5)

116 Small British bird (4)

117 Obsolete (8)

118 Validates (9)

DOWN

1 Symbol used in writing music (4)

Mechanical person (5) Drinking cup (6)

1871 opera by

Giuseppe Verdi (4) Opposite of ‘thin’ (5) Orderly (4)

Downpour (6)

Life form (5)

Egg‑laying Australian mammal (7)

Indian woman’s robe (4) Most chaste (6)

Principal bullfighte­r (7) Emporium (6)

Chile’s capital (8) Propose, mean (6)

Avoid, sidestep (5) Untidier (7)

Beat with heavy blows (5) Aromatic ointment (4) Facial hair (5)

Crusted dish (3)

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98 100 102 110 111 2 3 4

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Made known

Ape

Tinker

Vagrant, hobo Baby’s carriage Blemish

Measure of paper

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