CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

13 Cheered up by not being forced to walk? (5,1,4) 14 A big shot in Hollywood (5-2) 15 Worked hard until I was ahead of the others (6) 16 Cryptic clue is ‘wash down’ (6) 17 Fell and t-tore (7) 18 Not fastened, mislaid. There’s a hole inside (5) 19 Provide with name to ring (4) 20 Very hard on, shut in a pen (5) 21 What fish will do when in frozen waters? (5) 22 For formula, change price, increasing by a quarter (6) 23 Great friends to the end (5) 28 As forecast, pride took a fall at court (7) 30 Very grey fringes at fifty (7) 33 Fantasy that goes up in smoke? (4,5) 36 What the hurdler is wearing? (6) 38 Fish caught in, then released (5) 39 Prepared, when we go in, to be charming (5) 40 To the left, sight flickering rays (6) 42 Same morning went off to get married; joined together (5) 43 Many averse to being treated by a learner (7) 44 A scribbled name’s on the cover: Jack (6) 46 Containing new TV dispatched (4) 49 Taken when it would overexert one to drive? (4) 51 Inside, found one had been opened (6) 53 Gratuity of coin, take umbrage at (7) 55 Drink that could knock one out? (5) 59 Work out it’s six feet in depth (6) 60 You put your hand inside it to get key, dear (5) 61 Your answer to doctor’s ‘Who’s for wine?’ (5) 62 Seen in kitchen at a little before six fifty? (6) 63 In nude, playing game. One of a kind! (9) 65 Why men never make passes at good girls? (7) 66 A gun goes off, to his agitation and distress (7) 70 Paid for also in shillings and pence (old money) (5) 71 Cast aspersions until, out of control, son intervenes (6) 73 After a time, one will make reparation (5) 75 He will love what you say on the telephone (5) 80 A hole inside, lady, is to accommodate the foot (4) 82 Warble right back ‘I will’ (5) 83 Tract of open land, felt should be ploughed (7) 84 Doctor crazy nuts on horses (6) 85 Black and greasy when cooked (6) 86 Is no longer a forgotten celebrity (3-4) 87 Little money one has to one’s name? (7,3)

DOWN

1 What bird is pecking at in gallery? (6) 2 Meant to sign and take round the document (8) 3 Subsequently proves to be dead right (5) 4 Force to hold; first blunder (7) 5 Tough stir reformed convict top to bottom (6) 6 Having opportunity, prospects, digging about in core (5) 7 Left, now, standing in awe (6) 8 At border, shut up with potential killer (7) 9 Not altogether how steeplejack climbs to reach a spire (2,2,1,5) 10 Terribly expensive. Straight up, it is! (5) 11 Round it comes, delivered by the postman (8) 12 The heck he will! (4) 24 Simple box, brown (7) 25 Is careful. Alarm has been installed in (5) 26 He got into a daft melee, the twit! (7) 27 Refuse, after a month, to take the job (7) 29 Out and about, going round the course (5) 31 Managed to get back off cooker (5) 32 In latter half, son was tail ender (4) 34 Be there at the time and object (6) 35 Only in summer, evidently (4) 37 Eastern VIP he’s ordering about is cross (7) 41 Sign to get us moving again (7) 45 Stick back inside, myself. It’s a danger (6) 47 In pawn, mum salvaged, getting little rise (7) 48 On behalf of myself, is going through the guarantee (7) 50 As before, street on the other side (7) 52 Coming up with numbers over twelve (4) 54 Left flank, outside edge (5) 56 Invents new names and makes a lot of money (5) 57 Again, almost all authentic (4) 58 Unsettled now, I tumble with key (5) 60 A shade pale, giving the go-ahead (5,5) 64 Especially when on top of everything (5,3) 67 Avail oneself thoroughly and productively (8) 68 Change to another scene — girl with weapon (7) 69 Whenever there’s a tiny hitch, coming to me (3,4) 72 Clumsily alter figure in, to make bigger (6) 74 Bent on getting a number into temporary accommodation (6) 76 No longer confines to bed when it subsides (4,2) 77 Take classes in drawing (5) 78 Fish about in, getting wet (5) 79 And let me in to change (5) 81 Hard to duck, fine, short swinging blow (4)