Giant Crossword

ACROSS

12 Lady’s private

sitting room (7)

14 Atomiser for spraying

paint (8)

15 Copyist (6)

16 Boat’s mooring place (5)

19 Part of a foot (4)

20 In a senseless manner (7)

21 ___ Day, Calamity Jane

actress (5)

22 Yelling, shouting (9)

23 As a consequence of (3,2)

24 Within the vicinity (5,2)

26 Part of a chair that you lean

against when sitting (4‑4)

29 Cinema entrance hall (5)

34 Abut (6)

35 Religious ceremony (7)

37 Devoid of logic (10)

41 Castle (8)

44 Many times (5)

45 Large exotic

green‑skinned fruit (6)

46 ___ Rigby, Beatles hit (7)

48 Rate too highly (9)

50 Large gland behind

the stomach (8)

52 Thoroughly (2,6)

55 Only just (the winner in

a race) (2,1,4)

57 ___ Bashevis Singer, Nobel

Prize‑winning writer (5)

59 Bicycle accessory (4)

60 Night watch (5)

62 Harp on at (3)

65 Tooth on a gearwheel (3)

66 Choose, settle on (5)

67 One who consumes

or operates (4)

68 Brag about (5)

69 Drinks cooler (3,4)

73 Funicular (5‑3)

75 Bit of a lark (8)

76 Tool container at the rear

of a bicycle (9)

79 Two lines of

rhyming verse (7) 81 Tall ornamental grass (6)

83 New Zealand

language (5)

85 Condition of being

independent (8)

88 Pinkish edible fish (3,7)

89 Dodging (7)

90 Brightness (6)

94 ___ Holly,

Peggy Sue singer (5)

95 Christens (8)

98 Marooned on

the rocks (7)

100 Quick meal (5)

104Marine echinoderm (3,6)

107 Dimness (5)

108Arousing sorrow (7)

109Numbered musical

piece (4)

110 Hard doughnut‑like roll (5)

111 Uproar, outcry (6)

112 Last day of the year

in Scotland (8)

113 Food expert (7)

DOWN

1 Glum, miserable (7)

2 Of the state (5)

3 Animals walking on

two legs (6)

4 Take orders from (4)

5 Covered in wet earth (5)

6 Heavenly winged creature

with a human face (6)

7 Requests (4)

8 ___ Miller, US playwright (6)

9 Adam’s second son (4)

10 Abominable Snowman (4)

11 Astound (7)

13 Enlarged (7)

17 Slain (6)

18 Golfer’s starting point (3)

25 Soft French hat (5)

27 Species of ape,

colloquially (5)

28 Badger’s burrow (4)

30 44th US president (5)

31 Bear up, get by (4) 32 Ringing (7)

33 Cooked in water (6)

35 Formed letters on a surface (5)

36 Modern music ensemble (3,5)

38 Griff ___ Jones,

TV presenter (4)

39 Negative pronoun (6)

40 Adoring (6)

42 Digit on the foot (3)

43 Offer of reduced‑price

goods (4)

47 Lotto (5)

49 Distant view (5)

50 Epidemics (7)

51 Pacify, placate (7)

53 Loose‑fitting top (5)

54 Bath’s river (4)

56 ___ Slater, food writer

and broadcaster (5)

58 Building land (4) 61 Native inhabitant (5)

63 Company’s directors (5)

64 Falls ill again (8)

65 Wax colouring stick (6)

70 Marital crime (6)

71 Sports team’s letters

from admirers (3,4)

72 ___ O’Brien,

Irish novelist (4)

74 Camembert or

Parmesan, eg (6)

76 Bee’s defence (5)

77 Coil of hair, or a

currant roll (3)

78 Stay in a tent (4)

80 Address a law court as

an advocate (5)

82 Capital of France (5)

84 Unpaid (5)

86 Assignment (4) 87 Heroine of Doctor

Zhivago (4)

90 John ___, singer with the

Beatles (6)

91 Resentment (7)

92 Meaning of ‘Mardi’ in Mardi

Gras (7)

93 Alexander ___, influential British fashion designer, 1969‑2010 (7)

96 Argentinian dances (6)

97 Placate (6)

99 Brigand (6)

101 Desiccated (3)

102 Photographic likeness (5)

103 ___ Villa, football team (5)

105State clearly (4)

106Pull with difficulty (4)

107 Became larger (4)

108Entreat (4)