GIANT CROSSWORD
Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers.
CRYPTIC ACROSS
12 Another assessor who’s not very good (6-5) 13 Rescuing oneself from future penury? (6)
14 Yield the answer to (6) 16 Again entering a twinned neighbourhood (4) 17 Scold for smearing the primer as well (9)
18 Do, having got cold, warm up (5)
19 Gather, when the manuscript is sent round (4)
20 On the subject of keeping an eye on (9) 22 Keep one of the central letters of “eastern”(5) 23 Meant to create in it, you think, a diversion (9)
27 I plod with difficulty to get a degree certificate (7) 30 Customer who knocked the trap over (6) 31 Getting the boat back (4) 32 Fable of a funny sort with a happy ending (5) 35 Know about the E sharp (4) 36 Imagined me to be in the grip of fear (7) 38 Something it would be a mistake to wear? (4) 39 It’s a knife, chum, Guevara carried (7) 42 Strain to get the accent (6) 45 Pretend to have taken Latin at school (3,2) 46 Collapsing, gets people trapped in a part of (7) 47 Understands, when one grants an interview to (4) 48 A great time is had by everybody (4)
50 Plan to change the gear you jogged in (7) 52 Don’t just lie there! Dress! (5)
54 Caught in the deed, I worriedly resolve to (6) 56 Gave the signal as one shot by (7) 57 Thinking the tap is broken – the tip (4) 59 Switch off and force to leave (4,3)
61 Hence given an encore, though not very good (2-2) 64 Slump back, revealing a poor figure (5)
66 Had been having a little run-in with (4) 67 Marked “Stolen” (6) 69 Touches lightly on the skirmishes (7)
72 Can I possibly get a list translated into Spanish? (9) 73 The antelope started running, as it tended to (5) 74 By which a good detergent will easily beat others? (9) 79 “Extremely moist”
I deleted (4)
81 Isn’t woolly: a lining material (5)
82 The foreigner with the bogus pearl will come ashore in (9) 83 Being sensitive, is cross (4) 85 It’s tough and the girl’s upset again by (6)
86 Fix the vendor with a look (6)
87 The birth certificate does look old (4,4,3)
DOWN
1 Drop when you shoot (4) 2 Sat on, playing a piece of music (6) 3 Very popular with or in dead trouble (6) 4 Standing up, deliver a tirade about the mistaken map (7) 5 Send me right back to get it (5)
6 At dawn, off the singer goes on the travels (10) 7 Lift only a tiny bit (5) 8 Possibly a mere factor to bring about mutual accord (9) 9 Potters about, making you expostulate (7) 10 Having support, make headway against (4) 11 The one caught by the spider crawling round on (8)
15 Are of consequence in an affair (6) 21 French cream (5) 24 Do they bear a striking resemblance to each other? (7) 25 Animal the cat and sheep are upset by (6) 26 Let out the water (6) 28 A name with which doctors are familiar (5) 29 Furious when you clog up (3)
33 With lace ruffles and a ruched red border, you say (7) 34 Not properly enjoyed by the very thin (6)
37 The many wrongly seen as stupid (5)
40 A terribly west boy coming from the river (5) 41 Won’t turn off, though one nags (5,2) 43 Follow the t-track (5) 44 Small-minded, is in awe of (6)
46 A lot of sense (5) 49 Attack with a left, getting a yell from (4,3) 51 Caught the man up, then went ahead of (6) 53 Went off – back home to the rut (6) 55 Bags of instances (5) 58 Offer the performing lion meat (10)
60 Run onto the hill (3) 62 Looks for the said Indians (5)
63 Leaving pater out in: terribly rude (9) 65 Having read about one’s difficulties, deduced (8) 68 From a tin, the animal gets a snack (6)
70 Has run into the vehicle and got badly cut (7) 71 Dash off and the waddling sow follows (7)
75 Turning it round is wearisome (6) 76 Though most sensible, is in a terrible stew (6) 77 Turns up to get the good buys (5) 78 Before the sailor got up to have a wash (5) 80 Drew it up and appended the man’s name to (4) 84 See red as the in thing (4)