GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 12
Pretend you can convert an atheist (4,7)
13 Support and remain
informed about (4,2)
14 Has been worried, you
know, by: agitated (6)
16 Say “Run away.
It bites!” (4)
17 Flavouring with a
sharp taste? (9)
18 Once packed,
catching a boat (5)
19 Money is the key (4)
20 Arresting for giving
a lift to? (7,2)
22 Sweet lost wee
boy: a waif (5)
23 Not here; otherwise you’d
put the question to (9)
27 Mostly the string holding
it is really knotted (7)
30 The customer with
the two boys (6)
31 Hurry! It only lasts
for an hour! (4)
32 Classify as good, adding
“ridiculously dear” (5)
35 Charge a pound –
makes sense (4)
36 Prove to be, when you
empty the contents of (4,3) 38 Returning now, is getting
onto the platform (4)
39 “Imitation” makes the
girl burst into tears (7)
42 Back a shade, now. That’s
really marvellous! (6)
45 Guard the little
metal object (5)
46 Attending to get
a donation (7)
47 The bird, large,
carry back (4)
48 Into writing, is she? (4)
50 Closed with a click
and broke (7)
52 It would benefit you to
take the girl back (5)
54 When renovated, the
interior is quite modern (6) 56 Act as midwife and
hand over to (7)
57 Collect a lot of (4)
59 Soldier you’d do wrong
to get in a row with (7)
61 Move from Spain,
chartering a boat (4)
64 Quick! It’s chilly! (5)
66 Had cheated from
day one (4)
67 Because it’s wicked,
didn’t allow (6)
69 “Are a worry and
cheeky,” rub out (7)
72 Understand you’ll arrest (9) 73 A loud “That’s what
I’m good at” (5)
74 Owned to having
been had (9)
79 The fathead also
returned to base (4)
81 Rear lights, as stated (5)
82 Invented to explain how you’d won the card trick? (7,2)
83 Miss wine (4)
85 To sell it, are cutting
the figure (6)
86 Food for the panting
pet (3,3)
87 Running out of the hard
stuff, is dejected? (3-8)
DOWN 1
Flag down, in bad weather (4)
2 Say you’ll reassess the
student’s work (6)
3 Conclude, with
justification (6)
4 Needing sympathy and terribly upset, I ring through (7)
5 Always you start
each one (5) 6 Held back, or took a break, when rain came through (10)
7 Quickly one
embraces dad (5)
8 Yellow, as an old
book may be (9)
9 Showed her the
old façade (7)
10 Morning, lady! (4)
11 Gave back the balance
and rode off (8)
15 Resentful, drink (6)
21 I classify as “extremely
angry” (5)
24 Call on the woman
to provide food (7)
25 Prefer to look like (6)
26 It makes one livid! (6)
28 Delightful, having started
off very cold (5)
29 The destiny of many (3) 33 A girl. That’s very clear (7) 34 After a little time, had
taken the bait (6)
37 Drew “80”, we’re told (5) 40 Car parts, you say (5)
41 Leaves for a bit, carrying
the folding seat (5,2)
43 Leo, roughly about
four, and a girl (5)
44 Bustles us into hers,
all wrapped up (6)
46 “Pigtail” wrongly
written a “p..tail” (5)
49 The master is the
one exercising (7)
51 Puts large steps outside (6) 53 Sunday best? That
is funny! (6)
55 Wrap up the game (5)
58 Easy choice, when asked what mattress you’d like? (4,6)
60 The deer made a hole
through again (3)
62 Cut and run into
the grotto (5)
63 “South-eat” is
unambiguous (9)
65 I’m shown definitely to
have upgraded (8)
68 Foolishly got in a rut,
having cheap liquor (6)
70 How you said “Be
on the dot”? (7)
71 Not very friendly to the
figure getting on (7)
75 Awful pest, I figure.
Really bad (6)
76 Spar, to exercise in, and
get a minor injury (6)
77 Insignificant, dear.
Tiny drop in (5) 78 Parking and so on will
be outside the club (5)
80 Turning, spot outside a
funny-looking creature (4) 84 Allow light to shine
on the building (4)