Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Joined together (6)
13 Leapt (6)
14 Sense one’s insignificance (4,5) Ambience (4) Morally or intellectually instructive (8)
Drum section of an orchestra (7) American spy network (inits)(3) Unnamed person (2‑3‑2) Lively (5)
Aerial battle (8)
Lack of sensitivity (9) Aid (a criminal) (4) Enduring, lasting (7) Ability in a foreign language (7)
Narrow opening, slit (5) Capital city of Iraq (7) Symbol used in writing music (4) Acclimatise (6) Coached (7)
___ House, building on the Thames and the Strand (8) Coiled (6)
1871 opera by Giuseppe Verdi (4)
Bitingly humorous (9) Mistaken belief (7)
Lost the grip on braking (7) Donkey’s years (5) Store for threshed wheat, corn etc (7) Advertising catchphrase (6) Shipping forecast area off Denmark (6) Catastrophic (7)
Lace gathering (5) Spread across and take possession of (7) Second largest city in Wales (7)
Most important (9) Barely, just (4) Ardent wish (6) Owing gratitude
(to another) (8) 16 18
19 20
21 22 23 25 27 29 31
33 35 39
41 44 45
48 49
50 52 56 58 59
60 62
64 67 69
71
73 74 75 78 80 ___ cordiale, diplomatic co‑operation (7) Variety of jumpsuit (6) Paving stone (4) Narrow‑bladed cutter (7) 1942 Disney film about an orphaned deer (5) Intensely (7)
Ability to understand others’ feelings (7) Chaise longue (4)
Cut short (9) Pedalled vehicle (8) Body of teachers (5) Pierced (7)
Liquid in a tree (3) Theatre seating area (7) Unexcitable, unflappable (8)
Bee colony (4) Shackleton’s Antarctica vessel (9)
112 Awkward (6)
113 Fanciful (6)
DOWN
1 Boat‑guiding device (6)
2 Circulated (8)
3 Spiral (5)
4 Showing malice (8)
5 Aromatic ointment (4)
6 Struck with amazement (6)
7 Ancient English kingdom (6)
8 Paid killer (8)
9 Forearm bone (4)
10 Manual hygiene product (4,4)
Furrow, channel (6) Cower (6)
Writer of Pride and Prejudice (6)
Urge, encourage (3,2) Delight (4)
Ascend (5)
Without remuneration (6) Underneath (5)
Large cats of the Americas (7)
Shade of colour (3)
82 83 85 87
89 91
96 98 100 101 104 106 107 109
110 111 11 14 15
17 24 26 28 30 32
34 36 37 38 40
42
43 46 47
51 53 54 55
56 57 61 63
Top room (5)
Drilling (6)
Court romantically (3) Growths studied by mycologists (5)
In a constant movement (2,3,3)
Enid Blyton character (5) Discharge of artillery (5) ___ Croft, Tomb Raider heroine (4)
Sloping style of writing (6) Supermarket walkway (5) Mohair (6)
Words having the same meaning as others (8) Take part in a winter sport (3) Dreary song (5)
___ Arbor, city near Detroit (3) Whetted (5) 65
66 67
68 70 72
75 76 77 79 81 84
86 88 90
Country bordering Afghanistan (4) Rather (6)
One with extreme, sometimes dangerous, views (7)
Cloth from flax (5) Increments (5) Humming noise of a machine (5) Ethereal, vague (6) Attain (5)
Gave nourishment to (3) Creature, animal (5) Central issue, crux (3) ___ Redding,
My Girl singer (4) Crushed underfoot (8) Family descent (8) Member of a political pressure group (8)