GIANT CROSSWORD QUICK
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ACROSS 13
Cooperated with the dog’s desire to have a game (6,4) 14 Not terribly huge,
moulded in steel (7)
15 A right heart-throb? I
should say so! (6)
16 He’s being deliberately annoying. That’s the problem (6)
17 Warn to have prudence (7) 18 Happening to get your own
back the time after (5)
19 Rod is a foreigner (4)
20 Get stuck into a
thick slice (5)
21 Lies low on the one
day he’s around (5)
22 I dash off right before, to
get something to eat (6)
23 Detect in the act
and dismiss (5)
28 Surprise that’s perhaps
again rebounded (7)
30 To his agitation,
extremely cold (7)
33 Travelling by, made
an awful fuss (7,2)
36 From the vehicles, quietly
boarded the vessels (6)
38 He sings a number in
the latter half (5) 39 Prize for taking on
a protégé (5)
40 Next to be joining
the team (6)
42 Fight the test frantically
to the last ball (3-2)
43 Pretend the gold is brought
in from abroad (7)
44 “Hang on”, you say
with gravity (6)
46 A man like most men? (4) 49 Pops back, in a whirl (4)
51 Changes and makes
repairs to, for a start (6)
53 Not making a cent all round but perfectly happy (7)
55 “Lazy” would be a
loose definition (5)
59 It’s too dry for the many
trees transplanted to (6)
60 Promise, though it’s
small, to put it on (5)
61 First and foremost (5)
62 It’s something to do
with fighting (6)
63 Meaning one’s seeking
to influence (7,2)
65 The usual sort, scattered
for the birds (7)
66 Flowered, it would appear,
in a plot in the garden (7) 70 Usual contents
of the pot (5)
71 Rush the rest off the
morning after (6)
73 Do, when he comes
in, act oddly (5)
75 Stop to go through,
nice as ever (5)
80 Something in your
eye, girl? (4)
82 To get the coin, sure
to undo the bag (5)
83 Reason for buying
a filter (7)
84 Run off after the silly
nit one by one (2,4)
85 Not a sit-down
meal? Blow! (6)
86 New nutcracker, red,
I brought in (7)
87 Biscuit for when you’re not
flush with money? (10)
DOWN 1
Charge much too much for a coat (6)
2 Yes, a number go outside,
showing sense (8)
3 Love to cheat –
are caught (5)
4 Play the video of, but
be careful (5,2) 5 The blue’s run and there’s
a hole in the garment (6)
6 Inside the small tin,
put a mark (5)
7 Did he paint “The
Convert”? (6)
8 Makes one’s way through
the ads – right through (7) 9 Must be unconscious to
bear it, you grasp (10)
10 Talk about repatriating for
vandalizing, at first (5)
11 Pop off in a coach when
there’s a strike (8)
12 One transaction
of many? (4)
24 The dog, dear, doesn’t
have a dish (7)
25 From a large seat, moved
to the smallest (5)
26 In the usual state
the time after (7)
27 Praise the union gets
inexplicably bitter about (7) 29 Nag about the rain pipe (5) 31 So the bird, a
crane, ran off (5)
32 Back off. Are right (4)
34 Tried to put the R
in “heater” (6)
35 Can’t stand having
the man grab at (4)
ACROSS
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 28 30 33 36 38 39 40 42 43 44 46 49 51 53 55 59 60 61 62 63 65 66 70 71 73 75 80 82 83 84 85 86 87
Cooperated (6,4) Steel (7)
Definitely (6) Problem (6) Prudence (7) Happening (5) European (4)
Jam (5)
Lies low (5) Vegetable (6)
Nab (5)
Astonish (7)
Cold (7)
Made a fuss (7,2) Vessels (6)
Singer (5)
Prize (5)
Next (6)
Fight (3-2) Non-domestic (7) Gravity (6)
Usual (4)
Whirl (4)
Changes (6) Happy (7)
Idle (5)
Waste (6) Promise (5)
First (5)
Fighting (6) Meaning (7,2) Birds (7) Flowered (7) Soup base (5) Flock (6)
Do (5)
Stop (5)
Eye part (4)
Bag (5)
Sediment (7)
One by one (2,4) Blow (6)
New (7)
Biscuit (10) 37 Show I meant to
go off key (7)
41 Garment one has
little time for (7)
45 Look for the name
of the airport (6)
47 Longing to fly, the insect
is trapped in (7)
48 Change the
uniformed men (7)
50 Stop round about
five. Shut up (7)
52 Took out and tied with (4) 54 “It’s not”, you say ungrammatically, “a blemish” (5)
56 Shut up. We’re
almost there (5)
57 It takes a time to get
back the territory (4)
58 Miss the joke (5)
60 A weapon to make
crowds disperse? (7-3) 64 Parasites removed, says
“Bad doggy”? (5,3)
67 After a clear run, come
to grief: capsize (8)
68 Goes back to find the minister and rest congregating (7)
69 The chap with the son,
I accommodated in
DOWN 1 Overcharge (6) 2 Sense (8)
3 Love (5)
4 Be careful (5,2) 5 Garment (6)
6 Mark (5)
7 Artist (6)
8 Yarns (7)
9 Grasp (10)
10 Chatter (5)
11 Strike (8)
12 Transaction (4) 24 Dish (7)
25 Smallest (5)
26 Mean (7)
27 Praise (7)
29 Steed (5)
31 So (5)
32 Back (4)
34 Struggled (6) 35 Abhor (4)
37 Show (7)
41 Vest (7)
45 Male bird (6) 47 Desiring (7)
48 Coins (7)
50 Don’t allow (7) 52 Tied (4)
54 Blemish (5)
56 Near (5)
57 Territory (4)
58 Quip (5)
60 Weapon (7-3) 64 Rebukes (5,3) 67 Capsize (8)
68 Goes back (7) 69 Big house (7) 72 Headache (6) 74 Upright (6)
76 Yell (6)
77 Sees (5)
78 Boisterous (5) 79 Hazy (5)
81 Drive off (4)
the big house (7)
72 The headache’s
made me surly (6)
74 A true ho-home (6)
76 Trick again into, which
is very funny (6)
77 Sees and doesn’t
allow to get up (5)
78 In a word, terribly young
and boisterous (5)
79 Gosh, poured in,
it’s cloudy! (5)
81 Drive off, having taken,
to pack, our time (4)