GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
13 Covering everything, all in all (2,3,5)
14 Made up as pirates,
trudge off (7)
15 Having had the odd liein when it was cold (6)
16 Dismissed, yell at,
creating an uproar (6)
17 Corroborate there will
be a flight (4,3)
18 A loop, or ring, one’s
to wind round (5)
19 Claim you don’t
relinquish (4)
20 Looks for signs of life
in the incubator (5)
21 In the Arts Centre (5)
22 Resolve to return to the man in charge: the editor (6)
23 Get to a hundred in
her collection (5)
28 Having wandered right
in, didn’t leave (7)
30 After his swim,
extremely cold (7)
33 Argue that you must escort
the children to (4,5)
36 Pronouncing to be a
hackneyed phrase (6)
38 The vessel’s turning
again, love (5)
39 Establish it’s no
longer missing (5)
40 I spot roughly about
fifty flies (6)
42 Lumber one with the
dull person (5)
43 Or pretend about its
being imported (7)
44 Get up and go for
the ghost (6)
46 Talk about royal apparel (4)
49 One’s personal slant
given on the trip (4)
51 Say when, before the
rest is poured (6)
53 Also say white wine will come round with the fish (7)
55 Animals, as usual (5)
59 Saying nothing when the tiles are broken: about a quarter (6)
60 Long and cold, say
how good it is (5)
61 Find he has withdrawn
from the event (5)
62 Hurt the arm he
had around (6)
63 And when we call
round is delirious (9)
65 The stars dance around
in, to music (7)
66 Tells on and there are
repercussions (7)
70 Had looked about five,
but is a little older (5)
71 Wants the one she’s got, at
the bottom of the row (6)
73 A presentable man (5)
75 Notice Danny without Ann
has become shabby (5)
80 As a result, be artistic (4)
82 “Quiet!” you say – and
that’s not all (5)
83 Strange clue for “nosy” (7)
84 Does it cost a lot
to post? (6)
85 Complete the questionnaire
to become a temp? (4,2)
86 It’s obvious I’ve been ruined by the depression (7)
87 Matt is apathetic (10)
DOWN
1 Guarantee, before the sun sets in (6)
2 Vegetable served at
the girlie meal? (8)
3 Wobbles, which helps
make up one’s mind (5)
4 Makes twice as much
as the understudies (7) 5 Go off at about two (6)
6 Got up to “covered
in turf” (5)
7 The two boys stuck
together (6)
8 Turn a child against
healthy food (7)
9 Won’t a new watch
have one? (6,4)
10 The face – or part of it (5)
11 How lofty a title! (8)
12 Good gracious! OK! (4)
24 He reckons it’s used
instead of money (7)
25 Transplant half the
evergreens in the border (5)
26 Say time will show to
be no genius (7)
27 Break it in a drunken
spree (7)
29 With characteristic
skill, reversed it (5)
31 So he once dropped
the ball? (5)
32 If right about the
separation (4)
34 Thrives, bearing
fifty flowers (6)
35 Sing quietly – the blues (4)
37 Smoke – and that
does annoy (7)
41 The new girl flitting about
is more frivolous (7)
45 Gad about with a
big noise (6)
47 Catch the cat up,
scampering again (7)
48 The usual tail wag,
showing it’s fond of (7)
50 He wears uniform,
but not in public (7)
52 Are wandering at
large, it’s true (4)
54 Looking tired and terribly wan, going to the doctor (5)
56 He is caught in the act,
out to defraud (5)
57 Abandoned in port (4)
58 Say nothing and stand
up to get the paper (5)
60 Thought for a second, worried about the dire possibility (10)
64 Succeeds in getting the
deer to the water (4,4)
67 Dull and with too
many actors in (8)
68 In business here I go
bust and it’s adios! (7)
69 Smuggled pouch
you search for (7)
72 Idiot with a straw in
his mouth? (6) 74 Makes a mess of catching
the ball: slips op (6)
76 Are awfully thirsty all round, which is miserable (6)
77 The agent captured in
is hard to handle (5)
78 Chatter at before
embracing (5)
79 Let drop a small item from
the medicine cabinet (5)
81 Spoil things by giving
one the run-around (4)