THE GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
13 The mistake of imagining oneself to be immortal? (5,5) 14 See you shivering here and I take into house (7) 15 Think Don squeezed in through (6) 16 About one’s height and upright (6) 17 Actually, it may run up the wall! (7) 18 Predict the innards have been damaged by drink (5) 19 Visibly embarrassed, left (4) 20 A fraction of the time, then, is free (5) 21 All set, about to take day off (5) 22 Appeared to have sea view to its left (6) 23 It’s black hole, child (5) 28 Growled at, shot back into the vehicle (7) 30 So get me one. Don’t care which of you (7) 33 Wheel’s got clamped before, but not here (9) 36 Dally. Flirt outrageously at one point (6) 38 Also, to east and south, mountains (5) 39 Sound posh (5) 40 Flip over one page to see vegetable (6) 42 Having spare time, rested (5) 43 Learn to manipulate by getting round with soft soap (7) 44 For about an hour, worse: pouring rain (6) 46 Drawn, tired, is disheartened (4) 49 Pops back to do some work on the web (4) 51 Homes for the old, somehow guess will not accept us (6) 53 Children having wrongly gone in to snoop (7) 55 Must somehow put pressure on to defeat (5) 59 A little wind is no problem (6) 60 Female. A silly nit. Dim (5) 61 Liking the result of your elbow grease? (5) 62 A minor, having torched, let off (6) 63 Succeeded in performing the difficult task of removing? (6,3) 65 New girl was first to be questioned (7) 66 Busy — as a bee? (7) 70 Walk heavily. Mats put back softened sound (5) 71 The dairymaid brought back a whole lot (6) 73 Plumped for at Exchange Depot (5) 75 Measures taken to compensate for lack of transport? (5) 80 It’s to do with a hyphen (4) 82 Unsettled, now, I turn the key (5) 83 Confirm there’s a wild animal on the loose (4,3) 84 Naughty child — a real fright (6) 85 Hedges — or wooden barriers (6) 86 The advertisement that follows? (7) 87 Abracadabra and ermine becomes sable? (5,5)
DOWN
1 At roughly four again, there’s a commotion (6) 2 Mother, there’s an E in ‘tiger’ (3-5) 3 Bed Elizabeth Regina occupied (5) 4 What you see, when watching over? (7) 5 When does weekend begin, chum? (6) 6 Opportunity almost all see catch in (5) 7 Finds out about run banks concealed (6) 8 How one managed to produce a smile, though mad (7) 9 Toast the patient isn’t enjoying (4,6) 10 Stop to discard. Are superfluous to needs (5) 11 Like an irritable paparazzo? (8) 12 On which vegetarian can feed for very little money (4) 24 A red vehicle, booby trap (7) 25 Dismissing both openers in one over? Surely not! (5) 26 Having observed Lent, round beginning of Easter, gorged (7) 27 Hold forth about European count changing rule (7) 29 Even climbing right inside. The impudence! (5) 31 Ask for gold. Red is wrong (5) 32 Instinctive facility one’s developed (4) 34 Wan and ill, returned home all round (6) 35 How cannibal would view lovely girl? (4) 37 Can play in. Excellent back (7) 41 Knock three times at, having run ahead (7) 45 Amble about and we come to little river (6) 47 Previously a woman had been sent round about (7) 48 How you said ‘No ticks for any of the answers’? (7) 50 Question. Are put out about floor covering (7) 52 Let out a while back (4) 54 Dirt is dreadful. After clan leaves, clean (5) 56 Missing a meal, working, having fruit (5) 57 Navigational aid for s-sailor (4) 58 Having caught yob, thump (5) 60 Double L in ‘halves’ (5-5) 64 For ‘fruit’, strain to find a rhyme (8) 67 Mother and I later cut the cloth (8) 68 Figure help will be required to lift weight (7) 69 Fellow — Scotsman in the plant (7) 72 An expert, be overwhelming learners and toy with (6) 74 Might ‘Hope’ be the girl’s name? (6) 76 Return for, to put back in hole (6) 77 Animal that lows. Eastern (5) 78 Frightening, as Sampson was until he met Delilah (5) 79 Ante — or post (5) 81 In those days, in Athens: in the Parthenon again (4)