GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 13
The opening is a revelation (10)
14 Again getting the stain
out – it’s wine (7)
15 Gun fire (6)
16 Thinking the fool had an
offence to conceal (6)
17 Rake the money
in, as usual (7)
18 Sends round the
small jars (5)
19 Are informers, as you
can recognize (4)
20 A number had witnessed
the figure entering (5)
21 Some redundancies to start off with, but not enough (5)
22 A girl meets boy book (6)
23 Get money from –
only a very little (5)
28 Become, when you
compliment (7)
30 Being backward begins to
get one in difficulties (7)
33 Venting one’s fury
about inflation (9)
36 He-he!, A drum! (3-3)
38 Right through, follow
the path (5)
39 Having marched one
in, skedaddled (5)
40 Shows off the braces (6)
42 Goes to pieces
and runs (5)
43 Happening when one’s
making one’s entrance (5,2)
44 Stewing, cut the top off
and mince. It’s a pain (6)
46 The vehicle will be
back in a bit (4)
49 So the shutter’s
starting to flap (4)
51 Ground rent (6)
53 One is worried when the order comes through.
It’s not nice (7)
55 A skirmish in the
undergrowth (5)
59 Caught entering, make
amends immediately (2,4)
60 To satisfy the left
in, disparage (5)
61 The way one put
on weight (5)
62 Hurries us into hers
to dress (6)
63 What few know is what’s making that humming sound (3,6)
65 Amended the tale,
perhaps, a shade (7)
66 Landed a blow that cut? (7) 70 So at the time was inside
with the animal (5)
71 Discards the small bits (6)
73 Notch up, from scratch (5)
75 It shows you were
wrong to thwart (5)
80 So about turn and leave (4)
82 Analgesics for pains
in the neck? (5)
83 As before, he’s chopping
the meat outside (3,4)
84 Otherwise, they have
grasped the idea (6)
85 A second mother to
the ten strays (6)
86 Gets dry – sure makes
a change (7)
87 Dislodged from forcibly
and stole (7,3)
DOWN 1
I’m dancing to the true played; a wellknown waltz (6)
2 Stress I’d gone into,
in the crash (8)
3 It’s hard to – yuk! (5)
4 Power, for the present (7)
5 Rubbish! Just say
you won’t! (6)
6 Doctor, there’s an
I in “sluice” (5) 7 Rest, unwinding, before
the morning rush (6)
8 Does manoeuvre and is parking inside, as you arrange (7)
9 Will, in the funny dream,
be gathered together (10)
10 “Hard Case” is
about to run (5)
11 What is wrong with the
hooter in the plant? (8)
12 Dance you can’t stand (4)
24 Come back with a teller (7)
25 Note the same
twinkling lights (5)
26 Is he going to be a big
man in furniture? (7)
27 Cheated one – is
warped (7)
29 Wobbly – a bad
solo note (5)
31 Give instructions to,
in the wake of (5)
32 Fight it out, fellows! (4)
34 Tried to keep a few in
store, somehow (6)
35 Not many – about
fifty – travelled by (4)
37 Attacks the acts being
performed (5,2)
41 News about sport is
switched on (7) 45 A lot of or just one song (6)
47 Get baggy, in time (7)
48 So is crammed into the
tattered red file (7)
50 Go quickly for, having stepped in boiling water? (7)
52 Split on the guy (4)
54 She got on in; did
really well (5)
56 Person providing
you with food (5)
57 Touch you for the
charge – a pound (4)
58 Sick, when taken to the
doctor, that’s the form (5)
60 Very surprised it’s
without an address (10)
64 Had gone inside, so
we’d followed (8)
67 The left aims to, as
one forecasts (8)
68 Managed to get rid of,
to make the search (7)
69 What people, at
large, enjoy (7)
72 Parody that has one in
tears, rolling about (6)
74 Breaks when one hits it (6)
76 Fighting to get the
first break point (6)
77 Sees and plugs up (5) 78 Uneasy at the time,
seen to be shaky (5) 79 Bet you have a
share in it (5)
81 Back, secure, in
one’s digs? (4)