GIANT CROSSWORD CRYPTIC QUICK
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ACROSS 13
More or less what you’d expect to see in a fairground (10)
14 Get set to cut the
agent in (7)
15 A hole where the start of the terrace got demolished (6)
16 Set a record making a
comeback in the races (6) 17 Definitely also nonfiction (3,4)
18 Great stuff. Takes
us back (5)
19 Spoil the act (4)
20 Run off to get the
doctor in a panic (5)
21 Provided with information
about the quarter (5)
22 Wonderful guess (6)
23 Stretch out and are
turning the taps on (5)
28 Spell “elasticity” (7)
30 Come through inside and
he’ll introduce to (7)
33 Would I care for a drink? No need to twist my arm! (4,1,4)
36 Subdue the young man (6) 38 “It’s a vegetable twice
over,” I interposed (5) 39 Heading towards spring (5) 40 A loud “The fish is
a little high” (6)
42 Depended on having
spare time (5)
43 Shows to be dividers (7)
44 A TT when there’s beer
around – cured (6)
46 Flog, for the hair (4)
49 He’s not heading off to (4) 51 It’s full of holes. That’s
the problem (6)
53 Left one to get on
with for a bit (7)
55 Lift there’s something
wrong with (5)
59 Look at the big
end man! (6)
60 A smile about very little (5) 61 To respond to, are prepared to take to court (5)
62 Went on and on about scrambled egg and chips (6)
63 Period of duty at an
end as guard (5,4)
65 As to turning crimson
about being criticized (7) 66 Are about to cause
anxiety (7)
70 She doesn’t have
a cent! (5)
71 Chain or cord (6)
73 By spring, at home from
a foreign country (5)
75 Joke with the chap (5)
80 So it’s a myth, my going
off to America (4)
82 A funny R in
“marionette” (5)
83 Three have taken to the bottle, but that’s unimportant (7)
84 Regretted having covered
in and spoiled (6)
85 Job as a minder a
quarter put in for (6)
86 The fat woman
returned to sit on (7)
87 Dismissing for leaking (7,3)
DOWN 1
Catch “You’ll get it in a pet shop” (6)
2 Quickly, on the train,
breaking the ice (2,1,5) 3 Why there’s a U in
“portmanteau” (5)
4 Anti – terribly anti – but
you bottle it up (7)
5 Very little work for
an oarsman (6)
6 It’s fun, old boy! (5) 7 Fed up at last,
stand up for (6)
8 Huge number of
vases I broke (7)
9 Don’t forget. Stay at home
and be careful (4,2,4)
10 In case pouring rain
should frighten (5)
11 Speed with which a
stronghold is created (8)
12 Stand and deliver (4)
24 Kisses that are
hard to bear (7)
25 Nick is twenty (5)
26 The first hole (7)
27 They don’t choose to
have food in pubs (7)
29 I lost it, dear. Went
berserk in the traffic (5)
31 Think one has a very
good catch (5)
32 Name the stone (4)
34 Broke the lock. Was
made to (6)
35 She comes round
once a year (4)
37 Cheap metal instrument (7) 41 Either flattening or
curling up (7)
45 Started to like, all
right, in toto (4,2)
47 Shut up: you just
ACROSS 13 Approximately (10) 14 Get set (7)
15 Hole (6)
16 Races (6)
17 Definitely (3,4)
18 Great (5)
19 Act (4)
20 Run off (5)
21 Handed (5)
22 Wonderful (6)
23 Attain (5)
28 Spell (7)
30 Presenter (7)
33 Readily (4,1,4)
36 Dominate (6)
38 Vegetable (5)
39 Spring (5)
40 Loud (6)
42 Depended (5)
43 Dividers (7)
44 Cured (6)
46 Flog (4)
49 Male name (4)
51 Enigma (6)
53 Bit (7)
55 Snag (5)
59 Look (6)
60 Quantity (5)
61 Respond (5)
62 Harried (6)
63 Guard (5,4)
65 Cooked (7)
66 Anxiety (7)
70 Coin (5)
71 Chain (6)
73 Country (5)
75 Joke (5)
80 So (4)
82 Funny (5)
83 Petty (7)
84 Spoiled (6)
85 Job (6)
86 Fat (7)
87 Leaking (7,3)
don’t have it! (7)
48 Lassie in the garden? (3,4) 50 Until the time comes
for cultivation (7)
52 The head of the bakery (4) 54 Find, when you make
a copy of (5)
56 After a century and a half,
are out to vindicate (5)
57 Open “39”. The top’s
missing and it’s broken (4) 58 Any with negative
content irritate (5)
60 Is eked out unduly. One
overdoes it (4,3,3)
64 Possibly I can pour the
rest from the container (8) 67 A strange grace – an unusual air – in how one moves (8)
68 The girl is at large
in; lost (7)
69 So funny you were
dying of laughter? (7)
72 Is successful – in an
attempt to board? (4,2)
74 Order home (6)
76 Carrying her little
animal, the angel (6)
77 It’s a puff-ball
again, love (5)
78 Dismissed for writing a
DOWN
1 Catch (6)
2 Quickly (2,1,5)
3 Reason (5)
4 Hold (7)
5 Oarsman (6)
6 Fun (5)
7 Support (6)
8 Huge (7)
9 Remember (4,2,4) 10 Alarm (5)
11 Stronghold (8)
12 Stand (4)
24 Adversities (7)
25 Twenty (5)
26 Hole (7)
27 Mendicants (7)
29 Traffic (5)
31 Think (5)
32 Gem (4)
34 Driven (6)
35 Month (4)
37 Cheap (7)
41 Flattening (7)
45 Liked (4,2)
47 Liberty (7)
48 Flower (3,4)
50 Cultivation (7)
52 Bread (4)
54 Copy (5)
56 Vindicate (5)
57 Open (4)
58 Irritate (5)
60 Overdoes (4,3,3) 64 Container (8)
67 Bearing (8)
68 Lost (7)
69 Very funny (7)
72 Succeeds (4,2)
74 Religious house (6) 76 Angel (6)
77 Love (5)
78 Dismissed (5)
79 Track (5)
81 Chief (4)
name on the tree (5) 79 Follow, for a time,
the track (5)
81 Make for, showing
intelligence (4)