GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS 13
Gracious, wind, help my glider to land! (4,2,4)
14 Great playing – I’m
into jazz (7)
15 Run, though injured,
the half mile (6)
16 Figure the river in it is
a well-known river (6)
17 The crime is smalltime, you deduce (7)
18 Prevaricate about
the boundary (5)
19 Getting a mild rebuke
when you turn up (4)
20 Notice the addendum:
“it leaks” (5)
21 Seem amused by
“small distance” (5)
22 Say no more and warm
it up, in case (6)
23 Make for strength (5)
28 As a s-story, it’s
pleasant (7)
30 The outside is painful
and that’s that! (2,5)
33 Appetising also, shot
off to get, myself (9)
36 Hands the tickets to (6)
38 Deduce it will turn fine,
with rain to follow (5)
39 Copying the brooch
in silver (5)
40 Surpassed when allowed
to play for one’s country (6)
42 Start being jumpy (5)
43 Moved and again the
dirt’s swirling round (7)
44 The tea almost all get you
don’t provide free (6)
46 Sums up with “drinks” (4)
49 Blow the report! (4)
51 It’s coiled well (6)
53 Put a T in “conciliate” (7)
55 To prevent from having
a vacancy (5)
59 It’s easy. Just go
in jauntily (6)
60 Has got sanctuary in the church when you pursue (5)
61 Picture showing a river (5)
62 Goal for Jack to achieve (6)
63 Not knowing then I’d
scuttled the vessel (2,3,4)
65 Silly nit got seen
off? Great! (7)
66 Sympathise with the cold
old one shivering (7)
70 Plans to, having the
resources (5)
71 Not thorough,
again skip (6)
73 Begin by getting the
point sharp (5)
75 To stuff sausages with
it is the custom (5)
80 So loth to take a fifty per
cent cut ourselves (4)
82 Manage to surround
the small wood (5)
83 Unfair treatment and it’s
breaking the law, dear (3,4)
84 Your informant at
the bank? (6)
85 An ex producer (6)
86 Hurried back to scold,
they tell you (7)
87 Are not on their feet
enough, you gather (10)
DOWN
1 Charge too much
for wool (6)
2 A wee pest crawling on
top of the flower (8)
3 Not a name of note (5)
4 Dress as a scout, for
a change, myself (7)
5 Not properly descriptive
of the patient (6)
6 Infatuation you
suppress (5)
7 While capturing the
fellow spies (6)
8 No match when it
comes to craft (7)
9 A leader powerful
but mulish (10)
10 Out and out diaphanous (5)
11 Goodness, that
is elegant! (8)
12 The colour choice (4)
24 In French, how you say (7)
25 A second item of news (5)
26 More astute than
the card cheat (7)
27 Label as “a persevering
person” (7)
29 That’s a very bright
red, old love (5)
31 When less fresh,
is tender (5)
32 Are terribly large,
it’s true (4)
34 A very cold drink (6)
35 Mete out to the
lovely girl (4)
37 Little pebbles hard
for one to grasp (7)
41 Make it understood you’ll give a superior position to (3,4)
45 Nonsense! A number
are bad (6)
47 Rises and when getting
to a hundred stops (7)
48 Having rushed round the
edge, lost one’s footing (7)
50 Put in an order for a
double-topped cooker (7)
52 Bordering on
parsimonious (4)
54 Group of students,
of a kind (5)
56 Perfect for the one
who has a lot (5)
57 Not a fat tip (4)
58 Seat in which to get
caught by the sun (5)
60 Heavens, answer
when I write! (10)
64 With assistance, not
all are generous (8)
67 Uninhabited, which
is very sad (8)
68 In the ranch, I again
hid the gun (7)
69 Introduction to the
pair, avoid (7)
72 It’s very funny: about getting caught in a racket (6)
74 Made it fast, being
busy (4,2)
76 Not right angles,
one gathers (6)
77 Scratch the record (5)
78 A sugary “My darling” (5)
79 Look round the royal seat that’s been restored (5)
81 Catch up? Oh, all right! (4)