Giant Crossword
ACROSS
1 Cutting blades (8)
5 Flow of vehicles (7)
9 Write down for future
reference (4,5)
14 Flower part (5)
16 All over (3,3,4)
23 Paid attention to (6)
24 System of social
organisation (9)
25 Revokes (7)
26 Seed (3)
27 City in Alaska (9)
28 Neat (4)
29 Gymnasium item (10)
30 Katherine __, Welsh opera
singer (7)
31 Domesticated (4)
DOWN
2 Closing-down sale (9)
3 Type of rock (11)
4 Henchman to Goldfinger in
the Bond film (6)
6 Italian capital (4)
7 Engine parts (3,5)
8 Residing temporarily (7,3)
9 Songbird (6)
10 Short sleep (3)
11 An almost successful
attempt (4,4)
12 Throw (4)
13 Better (8)
14 Shade of brown (5)
15 Fruit plants (4,5) 32 Absentee (6)
33 Edith __, French singer (4) 34 Waterfowl (7)
37 Lacking sense (5)
38 __ Callas, opera singer (5) 39 Slight hue (5)
40 Bulletin (4,6)
42 Top drawer (5)
43 Robots (8)
48 __ Dunham, US comedian
and actress (4)
49 Whole number (7)
50 Pupils (8)
51 Konnie __, TV presenter (3) 52 Discord (10)
53 Exit a private computer
account or web page (3,3) 17 Floating (6)
18 Quarrel (8)
19 Saturated (11)
20 __ Smith, UK novelist of The Hundred and One Dalmatians (5)
21 Civic messenger,
historically (4,5)
22 Christian festival (9)
31 Pacts (8)
35 Sporting spear (7)
36 Biological group (5)
41 Groups of three (6)
44 Delineated (7)
45 Floor covering (4) 58 Menacing glare (4,4)
61 Views (6)
62 Saturated (7)
63 Unnecessary (8)
65 Notable, convincing (10) 70 Objecting (10)
72 Out of control and moving
very fast (8)
73 Sleeping area (7)
74 The Old Man and __,
Hemingway novel (3,3)
75 Predicts (8)
82 Drifts (6)
83 Wed (3,3,4)
85 Sardonic (3)
86 Symbol of hospitality (4,4) 87 Funny (7) 46 Joking (7)
47 Rubble (5)
54 Archaic word for ‘you’ (4) 55 __ Nation Army, song by
the White Stripes (5)
56 Narrate (7)
57 Extinct bird (4)
59 Large ape (7)
60 Pledge (4)
64 Hotpot (4)
66 Mollusc (5)
67 Niche (6)
68 Offer (8)
69 Determination (7)
71 Conveyed (11) 88 Go by (4)
94 Singing voice (8)
95 Beth __, US singersongwriter in the band Gossip (5)
96 Put out (10)
97 Greek letter (5)
98 The __ UK, TV talent
show (5)
99 UK exams taken at sixteen
(init.) (5)
103 Ebenezer __, Charles
Dickens character (7)
105 Delicate fabric (4)
106 East Indian sailor (6)
108 Gemstone (4)
109 Apprentices (7) 76 77 78 79 80 81 84 89 90 91 92 93
Type of grain (4) Medicine that helps with the expulsion of mucus (11)
Flight of steps (9) Witchlike old woman (5) Exaggerates (10) Royalties paid to actors for past work (9) Learned information (9) Farthest back (9) Delicate, heavenly (8) Bound with restraints (8) Uncertainty (8)
Limpet (8) 110 113 114 115 116 118 119 120 121 122 123 124
Disorganised or unhappy (3,2,5)
Food rations (4)
Persevered (9)
Celebrity, guest of honour (init.) (3)
Childish fit of rage (7) Genuinely (9)
South American river (6) Unsolicited salesperson (4,6)
Steep (5)
Animal disease (9) High-pitched (7)
Contemplate (8) 100 Parisian palace (6)
101 Type of light switch (6) 102 Scared (6)
104 Egyptian capital (5)
107 Cut (5)
111 __ Redding, US singer (4) 112 Star __, US sci-fi
franchise (4)
117 Tear (3)