GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS 13
Figure the advertisement is for a bed (4-6)
14 I enter, to run in
it, a novice (7)
15 Again rush back to
the merchant (6)
16 Are able to encore
the dance (6)
17 For me, a certain step
to be taken (7)
18 Either way, are
accommodating (3,2)
19 Delighted to have
launched (4)
20 Establish to be
badly upset (3,2)
21 Feel it’s essential to
start off with (5)
22 Supposition is the conservative male will get in (6)
23 Threw the ball in
from the shore (5)
28 Spring is back, a
plant reveals (7)
30 The one H in “haircut” (7) 33 Rebuking for stopping (7,2) 36 A club but soft, you say (6) 38 Does it rule the waves? (5) 39 I’m dropping him
this letter (5) 40 Urge to put it in a
nice new frame (6)
42 Started with a bang, roughly round midSeptember (5)
43 Guided the horse
again through (7)
44 Nonsense! Take the wheel
beside the learner (6)
46 Something in the bill that
gives you a shock (4)
49 Seize an item of
luggage (4)
51 To the last, rue moving
but put up with (6)
53 Understanding as
usual, turned left (7)
55 Point this out in
the game (5)
59 A human chain! (6)
60 And yet, having a
picture of (5)
61 Skid round the left
side (5)
62 The young leave things
lying around (6)
63 A tool found in the
orchard? (9)
65 Get back and pull
through (7)
66 How one hesitates in
speech and dries up (7) 70 Presented, with fluttering heart, is nervous (5)
71 At the end of the parade,
some leave (6)
73 Food from a small
take-out (5)
75 Either say it’s no good
or it’s bang on (5)
80 Added to which, a
pound’s nothing (4)
82 Lying, as before,
on the inside (5)
83 Gives it another whirl
and profits from (7)
84 Equally convinced,
promise one (6)
85 Just a second, mother. The net’s got tangled (6)
86 Had fallen out of love
with and left (4,3)
87 A fondness for – getting
stuck on (10)
DOWN
1 Give you a note – a
note scribbled on (6)
2 Or possibly a flying cherub for the cover of the leaflet (8)
3 Will jump – is certain to (5) 4 Made an impression when one put one’s foot down firmly (7)
5 Imagines a doctor has
the same trouble (6)
6 Drink with plenty
of body (5)
7 It’s to deter pirates.
That’s obvious (6)
8 A photographer in
the aquarium (7)
9 Don’t be fooled by the
“have X-ray eyes” (3,7) 10 Doesn’t allow, one
sees, to return (5)
11 Decrees that one
relinquishes arms (4,4) 12 Norm will propose to (4) 24 It makes a room dark
and quiet, you say (7) 25 It’s very hot when that
is put in to cook (5)
26 “Thoroughly confused”,
you said angrily (7)
27 Obviously pally,
playing about in (7)
29 Waken up by a river;
an English river (5)
31 So then certainly
will conceal it (5)
32 Induce one to be
a conductor (4) 34 Delighted, as former
editor, about (6)
35 By half past one, right
to make a move (4)
37 Trudge right back with the
peas I went out to get (7) 41 Be in trouble when you’re infected by the disease (5,2)
45 Figure the sign is not
always the same (6)
47 It’s tough for the king
to conceal (7)
48 Love is the rage (7)
50 Free about fifty with
no trouble (7)
52 Wreck one runabout (4)
54 Good and proper,
giving point to (5)
56 “It’s very steep”, the
lady returned (5)
57 The shade is down (4)
58 Maintain calm, somehow,
all round one (5)
60 As expected, adequately
convinced by (4,6)
64 It’s easy to make one
lose one’s balance (8)
67 With assistance, not
all are generous (8)
68 “Show Time” be very
eager to cover (7) 69 Puts one’s money on “Dopey”, going through the dogs (7)
72 Note the trout is swimming
round the fish (6)
74 About that hiding,
is a warning (6)
76 Worrying, call on the
accountant (6)
77 Brushes the garments (5) 78 Fits up with fellow,
through it’s hard (5)
79 Does it observe you
strap it on? (5)
81 The game’s up for
number one-fifty (4)