GIANT CROSSWORD
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13 Connected with (3,7)
14 Dig up (7)
15 Delay (4-2)
16 Throws (6)
17 Felt (7)
18 Pull from (5)
19 Boat (4)
20 Utter (5)
21 New (5)
22 Swam (6)
23 Collar (5)
28 Examined (7)
30 Under (7)
33 Continued (4,5)
36 Lots of (6)
38 Wrong (5)
39 Hard (5)
40 Suppose (6)
42 Intends (5)
43 Hurries (7)
44 Live in (6)
46 Cushions (4)
49 Go by (4)
51 Rows (6)
53 Game (7)
55 Belief (5)
59 Drive (6)
60 Male name (5)
61 Hermit (5)
62 Turns out (6)
63 Reptile (9)
65 Go back (7)
66 Dresses (7)
70 Intended (5)
71 Turns (6)
73 Reel (5)
75 In the money (5)
80 Wicked (4)
82 Prerogative (5)
83 Plant (3,4)
84 Insect (6)
85 Deal with (6)
86 Done without (7)
87 Modern (7,3)
DOWN
1 Stop (4,2)
2 Usual (8)
3 Peevish (5)
4 Bird (7)
5 Yells (6)
6 Should (5)
7 Money (6)
8 Crept (7)
9 Fed up (7,3)
10 Pictures (5)
11 Careless (8)
12 Revolve (4)
24 Enchanted (7)
25 Banquet (5)
26 Deduces (7)
27 Told (7)
29 Follow (5)
31 Are (5)
32 Try (4)
34 Sickness (6)
35 Very little (4)
37 Is understood (5,2)
41 Singer (7)
45 Idea (6)
47 Even now (7)
48 Jumped over (7)
50 Hostile (7)
52 True (4)
54 Plus (5)
56 At that point (5)
57 Island (4)
58 While (5)
60 Decrease (7,3)
64 End (8)
67 Bear (8)
68 Twist (7)
69 Shrank (7)
72 Attacks (4,2)
74 Quick (6)
76 Teeter (6)
77 Unties (5)
78 Loathed (5)
79 Figure (5)
81 Bottle (4)
CRYPTIC ACROSS
13 Made to suffer for being connected with (3,7) 14 Dig up near the hut, scrabbling outside (7) 15 Support the delay (4-2) 16 Launches with dances (6) 17 Felt mad (7) 18 Others, you say, would extract from by force (5) 19 “Boot”, or is it “boat”? (4) 20 Say it’s a small tip (5) 21 A new father and he’s clumsy (5) 22 Swam round the fish, looking angry (6) 23 Collar fastener (5) 28 Looked closely at, it was not natural (7) 30 Under the name, “Hate” is scrawled (7)
33 Had continued – acting as pathfinder? (4,5) 36 When in the mess, ordering lots and lots (6) 38 Ma returning to a ship? Wrong! (5) 39 Hard to flip over, it’s required two fellows (5) 40 Suppose, you add, the raging sea engulfed it (6) 42 Intends, when one criticizes the left in it (5) 43 Has grabbed the gun and gets a move on (7) 44 Prepared to let out, so you make your home in (6) 46 Cushions that are soft, the advertisements say (4) 49 Say it’s OK to go by (4) 51 Rows it took fifty years to make up (6)
53 Mind keeping the kids entertained for a while? (7) 55 Trust her! (5)
59 Take Una and Eve out for a drive (6) 60 Noisy! Bad boy! (5) 61 One between two sides is a recluse (5) 62 Turns out to be overcooked, in addition (6) 63 Children lined up to see the man-eater (9) 65 Go back again with poetry (7)
66 He takes the idiots outside and dresses them in (7) 70 Betokened, as it was intended to (5)
71 Turns back to stop the six entering (6) 73 Coils back the film (5) 75 Look embarrassed by
“in the money” (5) 80 Wicked, concoct a lie to frame a number (4) 82 OK. That’s your prerogative (5) 83 Hidden by a tree that’s spread, a big plant (3,4) 84 Half hope the tern zapped the insect (6) 85 Crash-land and he goes round to deal with (6) 86 Had done without because not there (7) 87 This time, give the exact date to (7,3)
DOWN
1 Stop to remove some weeds? (4,2)
2 The usual kind of lamp (8) 3 Get over being peevish (5) 4 Shoot the leading man in “The Bird” (7) 5 Cheers when one closes up the hole in (6)
6 The hospital with a bad case of gout should (5) 7 Someone to look after your money (6) 8 Toadied to, but got nowhere fast (7)
9 Fed up your spaghetti’s not given the finishing touch? (7,3) 10 Reports with pictures (5) 11 A snack darn it, for being careless! (8)
12 Bad scare when taking a walk? (4)
24 Had cast spells on that many were damaged by (7) 25 The fellow eats out
– a big meal (5)
26 Are confusing the children, one deduces (7)
27 Told the ex the flame was coming round (7) 29 Follow to the end – right through (5)
31 Are given about a second to leave (5)
32 Try to set off on time (4) 34 The youngster may catch the sickness (6) 35 May, you say, be only a very little (4)
37 Is understood when one finds it’s quicksand? (5,2) 41 Singer the parson is wandering round with (7) 45 He gets the Conservative to embrace the idea (6) 47 Within a day, created real trouble? So quickly? (7)
48 Bank a man leapt over (7) 50 As opposed to a commercial jingle (7)
52 Are veering to the left, it’s true (4)
54 Plus getting on the coach outside (5)
56 At that point, the Queen enters (5)
57 Said “Heavens! It’s an island!” (4)
58 Write letters for a while (5) 60 A decrease in the fruit of a tree that was shaken? (7,3) 64 Decide to end with (8) 67 Bear, or carry, with real difficulty inside (8) 68 Twist and the cotton knots right inside (7) 69 Shrank from the animal: a wild deer (7) 72 Attacks while the tennis games are in progress (4,2) 74 Quick! Tell me what to say! (6) 76 “Teeter,” you notice, was misspelled (6) 77 Charges right in when one unties (5)
78 After a time inside, he’d been unable to stand it (5) 79 Concealing, again, the figure (5) 81 The bottle broke in the valise (4)