GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS IN MONDAY’S PAPER.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Dinghy hard to manoeuvre is stranded (4,3,3) 14 Forbear to get regular part of song? (7) 15 Drunk Cretan in daze (6) 16 Go over damaged furrow (6) 17 At home upset teen’s in an emotional state (7) 18 Hate sailor beginning to hoard gold (5) 19 Generous sort (4) 20 Criminal fellow performing behind the Spanish (5) 21 Light mist initially in inlet that’s fairly warm (5) 22 Repudiate broadcast amid racket (6) 23 Analyse standard caseade by official in step (7) 30 Game not designed for composite picture (7) 33 Male once grilled about first of crimes to divulge all (4,5) 36 Two directions taken by group in lodge (6) 38 Some rare talent returning afterwards (5) 39 By the sound of it, quiet section (5) 40 A week in work as you please (2,4) 42 Group of fish also swimming round front of harbour (5) 43 Group engaged in endlessly hideous invective (7) 44 What’s left American in furore? (6) 46 Obscene part of ballad we like rejected (4) 49 Prohibit rigged vote (4) 51 Period taken by Northern U.S. lawyer in programme (6) 53 Talent and power at sea on ship (7) 55 Northern European tours clubs for conga, say (5) 59 Lively dance observed? Its pieces fit together (6) 60 Goblin is part of malign omen (5) 61 Group also heard in fight (3-2) 62 A letter about Greek character in wide street (6) 63 Hear about find we got by chance (3,4,2) 65 A pressure on hospital in ancient city showing sign of waste? (7) 66 Food with wine served up is thick soup (7) 70 Wander perhaps around odd bits of turf (5) 71 Secure church in a Northern and Western U.S. state (6) 73 Separate pause for refreshment (5) 75 Assistant conceals second private comment (5) 80 Ignore predicament (4) 82 Insolence in mariner verbalised (5) 83 A pilot to fly round middle of Devon is key (7) 84 Coolness shown in a place with violent mob (6) 85 Puppet gets moved round centre of room (6) 86 Student given pounds with rewarding job (7) 87 Dominate — what an MC does? (3,3,4)
DOWN
1 Savage fighter that is caught within sides of range (6) 2 Rush away with modelling session cancelled (5,3) 3 Deduce information on monarch (5) 4 When scrambled, I’d alarm naval commander (7) 5 Organisation say with set emblem being extremely selective (6) 6 Group holds right tradename (5) 7 Old pair of fellows before close showing disgust (6) 8 Male sadly touring island with limited energy gets sickness (7) 9 House surrounded by sprawling new hotel generally (2,3,5) 10 Lead actor tense in beginning (5) 11 Show pride lacking credibility after exercise (4,4) 12 Peruse article below second chapter (4) 24 Superficial exhibition entertaining everyone (7) 25 Range shown by policeman in Home Counties (5) 26 Mad sort that’s disturbed celebrity (7) 27 Romeo asleep in fits gets to backslide (7) 29 Place for stock managed by companion (5) 31 Aquatic carnivore found in hot terrain (5) 32 Georgia before exercise has to yawn (4) 34 Location mentioned for flatfish (6) 35 Something tied, we hear, for boyfriend (4) 37 Fool assimilating a lot wrongly is bewildered (2,1,4) 41 Largely healthy food brings prosperity (7) 45 A post reformed by rector and priest (6) 47 Flier in round section of plane (7) 48 Unsettling signs not good for shiver (7) 50 Clear idea not half in athletic competition (7) 52 Abandon landing by parachute (4) 54 Observe timing device (5) 56 Film, we’re told, showing sloping pipe (5) 57 Elizabeth is stopped by a patrol (4) 58 Woodworker’s machine left at empty house (5) 60 Fundamental regulation wore down government (6,4) 64 Writer’s first to speak when stirred showing vulnerability (4,4) 67 Set of desires this will’s misrepresented with one line missing (4,4) 68 By the sound of it, one that deceives cat (7) 69 Greek grabs a bag for wreath (7) 72 Salesman in Spain gets to feel discontent (6) 74 Swift response about wrong in the courts (6) 76 Nomads cultivated fruit (6) 77 Show contempt since year is conflict about Republican (5) 79 Revolutionary account by revolutionary in secret hoard (5) 81 A group moving time forward for singer (4)