THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 12 Tree homes are silly (3,3,5) 13 Phone doctor to get digestive aid (6) 14 Flattened, after going for spin in the heat (6) 16 Going back to a period and region (4) 17 Crazy, changing ‘Eileen’ to a French name (9) 18 See intercepting this good return (5) 19 Lacking in interest for the unintelligent (4) 20 Being remembered for taking a dive? (5,4) 22 Chuck takes an hour to pull round (5) 23 Tackled problem of how to get mail to its destination? (9) 27 Fortune made from being a hit man? (7) 30 Gamble on grabbing the animal: a dog (6) 31 Not turning west into built-up area (4) 32 Upset, still hugging dad, having lost a toy (5) 35 Sharp cry (4) 36 Use long words and brag? (4,3) 38 Right any errors contained in the story (4) 39 Unusual grants distributed to European (7) 42 Stress there are two notes and a coin (6) 45 Are roughly about a foot behind (5) 46 With father and son, is turning into an obsession (7) 47 Leave, then do come back, all right (4) 48 Have custody of and provide for financially (4) 50 Put the squeeze on journalists and editor (7) 52 Taking off with a high-pitched resonant sound (5) 54 A length of cord — or a chain (6) 56 Course official who’s anything but an old hand (7) 57 Nip back to collect a nuisance (4) 59 To shelter in tent pitched, are prepared to beg (7) 61 Up for the match (4) 64 Prevaricate when she’d gone, abandoning son (5) 66 Tree outside. A bay, perhaps (4) 67 I now refurbished interior of MG, using cutting tool (6) 69 For a carpenter, the equivalent of worry beads? (4,3) 72 An unequivocal ‘South-east’ (9) 73 Was pensive, hugging a tree (5) 74 Thanks, but not so much. In France, it’s really cold (9) 79 Something done that boomeranged (4) 81 Contract that’s given many comfort (5) 82 Determine to be equally assured (9) 83 Found top was off. Broken open (4) 85 Mounting insurrection (6) 86 Age of French pupil — new (6) 87 Not including, when telling (8,3)
DOWN 1 Trip out is spoiled by rain (4) 2 Reach for a box to put soldiers in (6) 3 Seemed happy to be given a medal — Al lost (6) 4 Gracious, the Wilde collection inside is mouldy (7) 5 Confuse a number led astray by (5) 6 Significant enough to charge at least a fiver for? (10) 7 ‘Trees’ requires a T to start with (5) 8 Are burdensome in the Deep South, we’re told (5,4) 9 To falsify the number is wrong, legally (7) 10 Do order up, in a bad temper (4) 11 Much thumbed by the very literate (4-4) 15 Wants to stitch back. Is hard to penetrate (6) 21 Love to be with her (5) 24 Lady is given report on the whole thing (7) 25 Talk Welsh? (6) 26 Is furious and, grabbing Monsieur, sorts out (6) 28 Pink for a boy! (5) 29 A fruitcake — or what you might find in one (3) 33 Ridiculously glad to have captured point, crowed (7) 34 Is a candidate and is upright (6) 37 Wounded — shot by communist (5) 40 Complain, or nag, about (5) 41 At one time, a synonym for ‘vest’ (7) 43 Do, when he comes in, act peculiarly (5) 44 Listened to, as one sent message in Morse? (6) 46 Tool found in the hangar (5) 49 Pearl is from a quiet part of Spain (7) 51 As alternative to skirts, doesn’t work (6) 53 Sing and I get nonet playing to accompany (6) 55 A one-sided privilege? (5) 58 Calls twice and identifies (5,5) 60 High ground towards the river (3) 62 Plans to get married to Sean collapsed (5) 63 It’s the a in ‘faded’, stupid! (9) 65 Secret. Secret I leaked, hiding nothing (8) 68 It’s a bird, child, with adjustable jaws to deal with nuts (6) 70 Loot from the sick, in part of the book (7) 71 Keeps going off — siren soldiers installed (7) 75 And when the police come round, open (6) 76 Lie about comfortable hotel room (6) 77 Name the favourite with little hesitation (5) 78 Sweep the second part of house (5) 80 Unhappy about one mounting the stand (4) 84 Instrument used in rapid rumba (4)