GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 12 Continuing (9,2)

13 News (6)

14 Pictures (6)

16 Open (4)

17 Stress (5,4)

18 See (5)

19 Fool (4)

20 Snake (4,5)

22 Halts (5)

23 Get through (9)

27 Make-up (7)

30 And yet (4,2)

31 Playing cards (4)

32 Paid for (5)

35 Had been (4)

36 Agitated (7)

38 Patio (4)

39 Vegetable (7)

42 Stilted (6)

45 Plus (5)

46 Frankness (7)

47 Test (4)

48 Restrain from (4)

50 Wrinkled (7)

52 Stingy (5)

54 Minder (6)

56 Stopped (7)

57 Animal (4)

59 Suspends (5,2)

61 Leave out (4)

64 Angry (5)

66 Frost (4)

67 Bit (6)

69 At sea (7)

72 Irresponsible (4-5)

73 Medication (5)

74 Tone in (9)

79 Cheat (4)

81 Show (5)

82 Aging (7,2)

83 Instant (4)

85 Hit (6)

86 Prefer (6)

87 Resettling (6,5)

DOWN

1 Mean (4)

2 Delayed (3,3)

3 Formed (6)

4 Got in (7)

5 Excite (5)

6 Bossy (10)

7 Brown (5)

8 Amazed (9)

9 Splash (7)

10 Resent (4)

11 Weapon (8)

15 Textile (6)

21 Employment (5)

24 Followers (7)

25 Dodges (6)

26 Infertile (6)

28 Elite (5)

29 Fight (3)

33 Wave (7)

34 Extras (6)

37 Old-fashioned (5)

40 Box (5)

41 Dispute (7)

43 Clear (5)

44 Beaten (6)

46 Snag (5)

49 Reprimands (5,2)

51 Too! (6)

53 Sex (6)

55 Time (5)

58 Learning (7,3)

60 Chum (3)

62 Drops off (5)

63 Informed (6,3)

65 Transfer (8)

68 Guides (6)

70 Wed (7)

71 Snip (7)

75 Control (6)

76 Idea (6)

77 Work out (5)

78 Youngster (5)

80 Send (4)

84 Money (4)

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

12 Continuing – to break new ground? (9,2)

13 Getting the news

about, left (6)

14 Writes “PICTURES”? (6)

16 Sound funny when you take the top off and open (4)

17 Stress that Fleet Street

used to be (5,4)

18 See this key-holder

is put back (5)

19 Before time, the

silly old fool! (4)

20 Is it an advertisement for

the Reptile House? (4,5)

22 Notices reversing

and brakes (5)

23 Get through, or somehow

enter into, the head (9)

27 It’s make-up to conceal

a blemish, mother (7)

30 And yet the woman had

a wayward son (4,2)

31 The tennis player’s

trump cards? (4)

32 Didn’t just sit there

while you paid for? (5)

35 Had been having about

a run a minute (4)

36 Agitated, or shook (7)

38 By day-light, back

in the patio (4)

39 The chaps are milling

around in, to get food (7)

42 At class the boy is on

best behaviour (6)

45 Being a g-group

is a plus (5)

46 Makes one open, or

undo, out in the car (7)

47 Out of a large number

on test (4)

48 Restrain from giving a

backward glance (4)

50 Stopped to put the

R in “wrinkled” (7)

52 Mean it’s not big

enough (5)

54 Is she taking a test

in baby care? (6)

56 Stopped being last;

somehow got in front (7)

57 Bolt when the animal

appears (4)

59 Ends the conversation and

leaves in suspense (5,2)

61 Leave out for the girl (4)

64 Come over as

cantankerous (5)

66 I’m going inside again.

There’s frost (4)

67 Bitten by, ran (6)

69 In heavy waters

again at sea (7)

72 Strike, quite content to

be irresponsible (4-5)

73 As an afterthought, including medication for the sick (5)

74 Hurt, is one to make up

to achieve accord? (9)

79 Cheat to get the

coats back (4)

81 Was carried round

for show (5)

82 Dressing oneself in,

though it’s rather old (7,2)

83 A flash: that’s the sign (4)

85 Impress you as

bang on! (6)

86 Prefer to look like (6)

87 Leaving to live in a

mobile home? (6,5)

DOWN

1 “Mean face”, left in (4)

2 About to have a cigarette,

delayed it (3,3)

3 Made father up. She

had come round to (6)

4 The deer broke the dividing

net somehow and got in (7)

5 Said fights excite you (5)

6 A new peer. A

politician, Conservative and bossy (10)

7 Brown, as a child, is

on the cover (5)

8 Shaken, lost one’s

footing (9)

9 Create a splash

as a fighter (7)

10 Resent that you care for (4)

11 The title’s changed to

“Murder Weapon” (8)

15 A natural material

you take to (6)

21 For instance, returning to America to get employment (5)

24 About to join up inside

with the followers (7)

25 Because there’s a hole

in, gives it the go-by (6)

26 Shut again in the outhouse,

is unproductive (6)

28 The flower is palecoloured (5)

29 Fight, in a word, back (3)

33 A wave from a member of

the demolition squad (7)

34 Is frugal with the ones

held in reserve (6)

37 “Said when” is oldfashioned (5)

40 Close heartlessly, trapping

the animal in the box (5)

41 Dispute that the notes

were forged, in court (7)

43 Making clear, too,

the time after (5)

44 Beaten for having

sampled the lollipop (6)

46 The pet the child has

is the snag (5)

49 Stops when one

reprimands (5,2)

51 Push with a large tool (6)

53 At “sex information”,

blushing up (6)

55 Time taken to go

through the notes (5)

58 Learning, on seeing

to be in bloom (7,3)

60 Getting a crony to

stand a round (3)

62 Drops off and she’s having

a little doze inside (5)

63 Informed it would

be unloaded (6,3)

65 Again find, when

you move (8)

68 A good many guides (6)

70 Having said I do, I am (7)

71 Snatch back, in a frenzy,

the reduced item (7)

75 Pull it off and get

control (6)

76 Thought a number had

got into trouble (6)

77 Only a few come in

to work out (5)

78 Youngster, a boy, I’m

bringing up (5)

80 Send the Irishman back (4)

84 The money – a note

– has changed (4)