GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 13
The again repeated words of reassurance (5,5)
14 Girl with a great – a
really good figure (7)
15 Let everybody see
there’s a delay (4-2)
16 More stupid, is less likely
to become a leader (6)
17 Sense it’s a trial (7)
18 Called and forced
me to enter (5)
19 Stir created by a man
with nothing on (2-2)
20 Ringing back at 6.50.
It’s very important (5)
21 Chose a new poet, having
done one out of (5)
22 The sailor called
about it, rattled (6)
23 Say it’s no good if you don’t enter without warning (5)
28 Obviously nervous when
making the cocktail (7)
30 Tell you it’s an award
for speakers (7)
33 A little lame, mending
bit by bit (9)
36 The son should
have tried to (6)
38 Gather it’s how Ned
introduced himself? (5)
39 Accent the word
“serious” (5)
40 Have to do with the tree
stupid Al backed into (6)
42 Coming back in as Santa Claus; uproarious, as (suoiraorp)u-sual(c) predictable (5)
43 Hint it’s unpopular
with women (7)
44 It’s usual to have
a fastener (6)
46 Promise you’ll get
news of (4)
49 Fish moan (4)
51 They put on various
coatings (6)
53 In brief, money is given
to the woman (7)
55 Support the couple (5)
59 About, you think, to restore
yourself to favour (6)
60 Yet it does give one
the picture (5)
61 Plan to have tea and
a little toast (5)
62 Opens with a deer in
the sun, playing (6)
63 The last one, Ali, is
bundled into the boat (4-5) 65 Dogs are best to herd
the animal in (7)
66 The little son can’t walk
yet but writes (7)
70 Send back, getting
the time right (5)
71 Leave with not
much hair (6)
73 Put up with not
having a seat? (5)
75 Don’t go on about “The
English Patient” (5)
80 Shine light on the
hangar (4)
82 Push hard against
the cupboard (5)
83 Subsequently the antler
tore a hole in (5,2)
84 On what cheese is
often served on (6)
85 Regarded as, having
seen on TV (6)
86 Find, when you
descend quickly (3,4) 87 Weakens just as the
flood abates (6,4)
DOWN
1 Cold I have something
hot for (6)
2 The snag is, you have
to drag home (8)
3 Begin by pouring tar
onto the street (5)
4 Hard to wrap papers
round, possibly (7)
5 For the web woven,
are to look out (6)
6 Covering up in a
coat is mad (5)
7 Feel you can identify,
for the police (6)
8 Trapping a fly, myself,
for the big man (7)
9 Fruit found where it’s
mild, in the East (10)
10 Colour of the plug
she is holding (5)
11 For the fruit, carrying a
container; metal (8)
12 Supply entertainment
– at a figure (4)
24 Talk about that flying
saucer, half cut (7)
25 Join you the night
after, say (5)
26 How you said “Nothing
but draws”? (7)
27 Embarrassed, lets slip
about the vehicle (7)
29 Och, man, they’re
warnings! (5)
31 Making clear I mean
to catch (5)
32 Green is no fool (4) 34 Impartially?
Moderately so (6)
35 For actors, shy (4)
37 Wrestle with Elgar,
playing pianissimo in (7)
41 Let down, frowned (7)
45 Do I go in for equality? (6) 47 Furious with the
so-and-so (7)
48 A pariah? Not in “35” (7)
50 Mean a woman stood up
will lose her temper (7)
52 Water I managed to trap (4) 54 Intended to, being,
myself, a hard worker (5)
56 Where the fish goes that’s caught and you wind in? (5)
57 Circus performer got
up as a sprite! (4)
58 Box for the puppet (5)
60 The star twinkles a
little in it, darling (10)
64 Relinquished, as
stipulated (4,4)
67 What the surgeon removed though, having done, said otherwise? (8)
68 Stopping when the pop
gun is going off (7)
69 Children’s favourite
musical instruments? (7) 72 A lump of, to accompany
the old stewed chop (6) 74 Hurled at the said seat (6) 76 A canny little creature,
the daughter (6)
77 Half despairing, going
off to get a tool (5)
78 At most, half one’s
weight (5)
79 With the dog, run in
the murderer (5)
81 Storm when you
say hello to (4)