GIANT CROSSWORD
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13 Arrives more or less
when it happens (5,5)
14 He has a broken heart
(cherchez la femme!) (7)
15 Start improving when you
raise your sights? (4,2)
16 Following when he goes
back in to complain (6)
17 Premium increased, an
attempt to conceal it (5-2)
18 Is classified as,
in the files (5)
19 Has agreed to leave (4)
20 The Alsatian, at a loss, is
wandering in the garden (5)
21 Stamp showing a man (5)
22 Unfortunately rile mum
by giving sauce (6)
23 Remains to baffle (5)
28 Understands it’s the
gun-woman’s (7)
30 Swindle, with skill,
the bank (7)
33 Transgresses in giving
a clue for “odes” (4,5)
36 Is successful – in
catching the bus? (4,2)
38 As I said before, it’s
not a loss (5)
39 A post bet (5)
40 To get alternative work,
having to move into (6)
42 Step taken to conceal
a prison (5)
43 Twit – he had
invested in (7)
44 Had worked as a herder
when forced to (6)
46 After you put into
the box (4)
49 Mark will notice it (4)
51 Force, by making a
din, to miscue (6)
53 The fellow is confident
it’s an opening (7)
55 Love, in short, and woo (5)
59 Having got one a tad upset
about, made up for (6)
60 So he once dropped
the ball (5)
61 Rock music (5)
62 A job for the skater who’s
no longer skating? (6)
63 No secret to the
famous (4-5)
65 Overcome by emotion
again, was taken away (7)
66 Awfully stern about, if
you have a drink (7)
70 Be a burglar and set off
some of the alarms (5)
71 Upright, is about
one’s height (6) 73 Save, there’s nothing
arduous about it! (5)
75 Criticise when you
don’t ring (5)
80 Keenness to acquire
an advantage (4)
82 Lying quietly by Nero,
curled up (5)
83 “It’s disgraceful and
wrong,” you storm (7)
84 Having teed off, half
stop. Don’t like it (6)
85 Figure bid for the chest (6)
86 Swashbuckling and
going places fast (7)
87 Catch up in the race to become biggest landowner? (4,6)
DOWN
1 Hurry up and take
the stage (4,2)
2 A beautiful girl wicked
inside: very wicked (8)
3 The name is “Field” (5)
4 Relate to business (7)
5 He got his own back
on the street (6)
6 Right on the dot,
being keen (5)
7 Am quietly putting
in her basket (6) 8 “Soon”, in its
abbreviated form (7)
9 Makes clear, when one delivers to the doorstep (6,4)
10 A lesson on social
standing? (5)
11 Trouble you get into in
the bathroom? (3,5)
12 A yank with pluck (4)
24 The fellow gets leaves
from the trees (7)
25 On entering, yell
to a buddy (5)
26 Giving a sales talk, holding
an appealing dog (7)
27 And getting us to bound
in and surprise (7)
29 Wide awake and having
a drink, right? (5)
31 A bit aloof (5)
32 Support for the
remainder of (4)
34 Greeted at the hospital
– was sick (6)
35 To be unbiased,
is not bad (4)
37 Lean child carrying
a cheese (7)
41 Informs one and
one unloads (4,3)
45 An ill-tempered woman
holding a sign (6)
47 Complaining that it’s
without loopholes (7)
48 It’s a job for the
embassy (7)
50 It’s obvious I am the
heart case (7)
52 In shape, having an
ice-cream (4)
54 A fancy taken to,
you do well in (5)
56 Gather it drove Hercules
crazy at first (5)
57 It barks from annoyance,
you say (4)
58 A coin and a pen (5)
60 Greetings and please explain your modus operandi (3,2,3,2)
64 Stop! Don’t turn
on again! (5,3)
67 Work for the party (8)
68 The opposite of “back” (7)
69 Involved in a terrible
scare about poison (7)
72 Understood and gave
shelter to (4,2)
74 Nothing – pasture
land and a tree (6)
76 Surveying the outside (6)
77 Extra small and trim (5)
78 Level with the coach (5) 79 Saying a number will
be given time (5)
81 Decline to give up (4)