GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
13 Deranged (10)
14 Harden (7)
15 Indicates (6)
16 Try hard (6)
17 Last part (4,3)
18 Cook (5)
19 Stare (4)
20 Do well (5)
21 Handed (5)
22 Hurries (6)
23 Rap (5)
28 Plant (7)
30 Sign (7)
33 Omits (6,3)
36 Scratches (6)
38 Saw (5)
39 Encircling (5)
40 Distant (6)
42 Be adequate (5)
43 Now (7)
44 False (6)
46 Sharp (4)
49 Daily (4)
51 Ram (6)
53 Make (7)
55 Anxious (5)
59 Wind (6)
60 Get up (5)
61 Near (5)
62 Give notice (6)
63 Improbable (3,6)
65 Extreme (7)
66 Prize (7)
70 Sound harsh (5)
71 Buds (6)
73 Put up with (5)
75 Stand (5)
80 Aims (4)
82 Catches (5)
83 Observed (7)
84 Frightens (6)
85 Cause (6)
86 Muttered (7)
87 Job (10)
DOWN
1 Fragment (6)
2 Card game (8)
3 Bet (5)
4 Dog (7)
5 Revere (6)
6 Different (5)
7 Kill (6)
8 Treasure (7)
9 Battle (10)
10 Deluge (5)
11 Lodgings (8)
12 Pace (4)
24 Oppose (7)
25 Feel (5)
26 Remark (7)
27 Supervise (7)
29 Gather (5)
31 Catches (5)
32 Light (4)
34 Less biased (6)
35 Depressed (4)
37 Dream (7)
41 Affairs (7)
45 Scam (6)
47 Hurtles (7)
48 Broken (7)
50 Port (7)
52 Bound (4)
54 Gives up (5)
56 See (5)
57 Plan (4)
58 Swindler (5)
60 Even so (3,3,4)
64 Reveals (4,4)
67 Passages (8)
68 Eat (7)
69 Guide (7)
72 Unmarried (6)
74 Think (6)
76 Enticement (4-2)
77 Hurled (5)
78 Examine (5)
79 Fasteners (5)
81 Twelve (4)
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
13 When riding a bicycle, wobbling like mad (10)
14 Time enough to train and
lose some of that flab (7)
15 Indicates, in jars
all around (6)
16 Try to make the advertisers
have a change of heart (6)
17 Are inclined to get sick
in the last part (4,3)
18 While taking tripe
round to cook (5)
19 Seem amazed by the big
tail the monkey has (4)
20 Do well to climb to the
top of Everest (5)
21 Handed information
about the quartet (5)
22 Plants one forces
to grow fast (6)
23 Say it’s bad rap (5)
28 Someone stealing
a plant (7)
30 Sign in gold needs to be
designed for the outside (7)
33 Doesn’t take in there are
pages missing (6,3)
36 A whole lot of
indentations (6)
38 With a saw, cut
one to order (5)
39 Encircling, more or less (5)
40 Far away, returning to
in a mere twinkling (6)
42 As a first shot, it will do (5)
43 Now, a reminder that
it’s your birthday (7)
44 Cheating on?
That’s a lie (6)
46 Sharp on time, the
man appears (4)
49 Daily drink (4)
51 Shoe hard and hope
to trap it (6)
53 Make a jab at with the
cue, foolishly (7)
55 Anxious when the nest
egg starts to dissipate (5)
59 Something easy for the meteorologist to forecast? (6)
60 Get up a hill (5)
61 Near the end (5)
62 Point the rule out when
you give notice (6)
63 Showing no promise?
That’s improbable (3,6)
65 Rattling the tin and seen to be agitated in the extreme (7)
66 Prize setter playing
with a ball in (7)
70 Sound harsh while sounding wonderful (5) 71 Kills buds (6)
73 Reserve the right to occupy and you put up with… (5)
75 …and stand the
verbal abuse (5)
80 Aims and stops at that (4)
82 Catches, though it’s hard,
the clumsy pass (5)
83 Saw to be plain,
as cakes go (7)
84 “Man and Weapons”
is frightening (6)
85 Why you shift it
around in (6)
86 Muttered “Shut up”, then
was really sorry (7)
87 It’s a job to get the
tenancy (10)
DOWN
1 Fragment of conversation
about a kidnapping? (6)
2 Game to identify the girl (8)
3 Bet a war gets
started in (5)
4 For the ices distribution, the tot ran in with the dog (7)
5 See good points in,
though driven mad with anger by (6)
6 Not that mum will
lose her head (5)
7 Inflamed by drink,
going back to kill (6)
8 Love and shower riches
on him. I’m ignored (7)
9 Joining in battle – before
joining in Matrimony (5)
10 At spring time, I’m
out a lot (5)
11 Accommodation and work
for archaeologists (8)
12 Set off at gentle pace (4)
24 He’ll see how many there
are who’ll fight back (7)
25 Feel small, seen off by (5)
26 Say how you’ve translated
into French (7)
27 Manage to look after
topless paramour (7)
29 Gather the dog is
back – a male (5)
31 Catches getting some
items from the tool box (5) 32 Light up scoundrels (4)
34 To the less biased,
is prettier (6)
35 Unhappy when
not ahead (4)
37 As always, one again goes
round in a dream (7)
41 Has an important role to
play in the affairs of (7)
45 Scam that creates
an uproar (6)
47 Doesn’t go on smoothly
if one rushes (7)
48 Damaged bananas (7)
50 Entertain in port (7)
52 Bound to miss (4)
54 Gives up one’s
medication? (5)
56 See changing this
note in (5)
57 Plan A is to have the
soldiers surround it (4)
58 Cheat and falsify the
books right through (5)
60 Even so, impossible to tell
any of them apart (3,3,4)
64 Doesn’t stop skids,
one reveals (4,4)
67 Passages from leaflets (8)
68 For once, worried about
the amount you eat (7)
69 Behave yourself when
you act as guide (7)
72 Pick out – or miss (6)
74 Think you count (6)
76 That’s an enticement?
Nonsense! (4-2)
77 Launched by means of, it is said (5)
78 Examine the painting (5)
79 Contains an appendix on
fastening devices (5)
81 A number over twelve (4)