Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Rubber (6)
13 Amount of medicine to take (6) 14 Serialised TV drama (4,5) 16 Children’s guessing game (1‑3) 18 Becomes more sheer (8) 19 Schoolwork bag (7)
20 Quick pinch (3)
21 Device for grilling bread (7)
22 Shoo! (5)
23 Most covered in grime (8) 25 Non‑military people (9)
27 Tim ___, Pulp Fiction actor (4)
29 Crime, illegal act (7)
31 Clear quartz (7)
33 Brag (5)
35 Small block of frozen water (3,4) 39 Pepper grinder (4)
41 Suppose or anticipate (6)
44 Make (a thing) appear larger than it is (7) 45 Good‑humoured, nice (8)
48 Wealthy industrialist (6)
49 Relating to the mouth (4)
50 Practice for a show (9)
52 Fizzy powdered confection (7) 56 Unsuspecting (7)
58 Chopper blade (5)
59 Small towers (7)
60 Remove the packaging from (6) 62 Christmas tree decoration (6) 64 Charm, enchant (7)
67 Come apart, break (5)
69 Spoil (yourself) (7)
71 Got away (7)
73 Landing areas for planes (9)
74 Make (woollens) (4)
75 Cook for too long (6)
78 Lover of reading (8)
80 Impractical person (7)
82 Sewing tool with an eye (6) 83 Possess (4)
85 Dear to the heart (7)
87 Robbery (5)
89 Feeling of deep regret (7)
91 Thin sheets of fine wood used for decorating furniture (7)
96 Long film or novel (4)
98 Phone‑in wireless broadcast (4,5)
100 Highly spiced curry (8)
101 Complete reversal of direction (1‑4) 104 More or less, about (7)
106 Add a new soundtrack to (3)
107 Covered by a policy (7)
109 Tough training place for army recruits (4,4) 110 Deep Scottish loch (4) 111 Speaking softly (9)
112 LP, disc (6)
113 Programme of a meeting (6)
DOWN
1 (Of a wound) infected with bacteria (6)
2 Preserve your dignity (4,4) 3 Annoyed, cross (5) 4 Weigh up carefully (8) 5 Final (4)
6 Boiling to the touch (3‑3) 7 In‑car system that directs drivers (6)
8 Makes up (crosswords) (8) 9 Computer information (4) 10 Relating to the past (8) 11 Ghost, supernatural being (6) 14 Choose, pick (6) 15 Add‑ons (6)
17 Edition (of a magazine etc) (5) 24 Make less difficult (4)
26 ___ Baron Cohen, creator of Borat and Brüno (5)
28 Front of a TV set (6)
30 Pixie, eg (5) 32 Non‑professional (7) 34 Buffoon (3)
36 Go for a swim (5)
37 Create (a new device) (6) 38 Unwell (3)
40 ___ Lewis, Bleeding Love singer (5) 42 Well‑known sayings (8)
43 Item of furniture (5) 46 Missile shot from a bow (5) 47 Weekly earnings (4) 51 Hardly ever, seldom (6) 53 Afghan ___, dog breed (5) 54 The ‘S’ of USA (6)
55 Helped (8)
56 ___ Thurman, actress (3) 57 Someone Like You singer (5) 61 High or low playing‑card (3) 63 Long‑running kids’ comic (5) 65 Passing fanciful idea (4)
66 ___ medicine, alternative cure (6) 67 Above all others (7)
68 Hint of colour (5)
70 Bloodsucking worm once used in medicine (5)
72 Large sword (5)
75 Bottle‑top remover (6)
76 Kent port with white cliffs (5) 77 Paid sportsperson (3)
79 Grain providing flour (5) 81 Football umpire (3)
84 ___ Travolta, actor (4)
86 Clearly, naturally (2,6)
88 Loaned in exchange for payment (5,3) 90 Bad‑mouths (8)
92 Tempting, seducing (8) 93 Participant in a game (6)
94 Failing to win (6) 95 Spare‑time interest (5)
97 Goods wrapped in paper for the post (6)
99 Scattered broken pieces (6)
100 Dressing room in a church (6)
102 Gordon ___, celebrity chef (6)
103 Heated hair‑curling device (5)
105 Family residence (4)
108 Wealthy, affluent (4)