GIANT CROSSWORD
CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS ON MONDAY
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
13 Burden put on Jill’s partner, one in the logging industry (10)
14 Lacking degree, Orcadian played old wind instrument (7)
15 Rule formulated to restrict a lot of enjoyment makes one miserable (6)
16 Cower with circle in church (6)
17 Two features of tennis in another sport (7)
18 That woman’s given a fine bundle of papers (5)
19 Have a presentiment of book with poetic work (4)
20 Wrongly answer forgetting name and use bad language (5)
21 Swim in club at Hexham (5)
22 Hearty Yankee on east side of Scottish river (6)
23 Leading characters in club often characterise knowledgeable youths as arrogant (5)
28 English PM of old embodying explosive descriptive term (7)
30 Review of great plan essentially in general (2,5)
33 Man on board, we hear, gets tax for work outside normal hours? (5,4)
36 Perplex pair of fellows entering English scientific site in turn (6)
38 Throw dirt first off behind clubhouse (5)
39 Violet cut varied fruit (5)
40 Mike confronts rowdy youth that’s cheeky (6)
42 Contravene prime elements of French law in public (5)
43 Bless one stuck in mess by fate (7)
44 Relative behind counter has cask (6)
46 Yawn and grimace initially by primate (4)
49 Second group makes opening (4)
51 Managed some police in rank (6)
53 Loveless boy troubled Beth over
year incidentally (2,3,2)
55 Fellow removing top presumably outwardly contented (5)
59 Snare English conservationists with criticism (6)
60 Dram taken by a learner in sum (5) 61 Dissolute type grabs good cosmetic powder (5)
62 Negotiation taking place in centre at York (6)
63 Australian in cast in suitable state to get wildly angry (5,1,3)
65 Internet location offering best wine with no end of variation (7)
66 Simon exercised around a new large house (7) 70 Flat in the Home Counties has digging implement (5)
71 Mean young troublemaker wearing a shade of blue (6)
73 Treat with derision stand-up’s first overly familiar material (5)
75 Embarrassed pair shortly recalled part of a cow (5)
80 Shout in dance, reportedly (4)
82 A gang’s leader has increase mostly in trouble (5)
83 A novice initially in working guild lacking energy (7)
84 Systematise company documents principally if close to bankruptcy (6)
85 Gloomy sort of lad is touring
Malta (6) 86 Deployment of one gun mostly is related to fire (7)
87 Senior most in a mess, as it were (2,4,4)
DOWN
1 Animal’s hair found on line in trench (6)
2 Band with a tune mostly played that’s plentiful (8)
3 Source of great fire when analysed produces distress (5)
4 Deny profit, for example (7)
5 Drawing Kelvin put in rickety chest (6)
6 U.S. lawyer engaged by sport currently (5)
7 Chart with temperature for pill (6)
8 Variation of terms in church (7)
9 Commercial push less varied after reorganisation (5,5)
10 Tendency shown by department with disagreement (5)
11 Fresh talent reassembled below don (3,5)
12 Who in France needs dinar or pound? (4)
24 Move the cup beneath pack finally for tomato sauce (7)
25 Second thing for storing water in refuse channel (5)
26 Rugby player on holiday in retreat (4,3)
27 Beth and Millie with no invention misused sewing accessory (7)
29 Pressure on aristocrat to get precious stone (5)
31 Reliance in NHS institution (5)
32 Objective with central parts switched in prison (4)
34 Check something found in a cinema (6)
35 Female singer in band I value (4)
37 Agitate with first of friends over poor result (7)
41 Raise in status at college a degree in Greek and English (7)
45 Rogue’s first faceless friend in Australia is a thief (6)
47 Get ready beforehand with pair on reformed panel (7)
48 Tree Percy represented on sides of schools (7)
50 Female radio broadcaster on short trip in car to get delivery (4,3)
52 I love sign of appreciation in Mediterranean character (4)
54 Frequent hotel with female relative (5)
56 Element right away I love in paved area (5)
57 Gravity shown by U.S. novelist — or merriment (4)
58 Ugly types upset former Home Secretary (5)
60 Reflect further taking in a change around hospital (5,5)
64 Model swimming around Florida, a former lover (3,5)
67 Team with attractive type gets supplementary plate (4,4)
68 Confiscate money under middle of limo (7)
69 Affectedly prim priest for all to see is found in Germany and Hungary (7)
72 Boy without cap well dressed in colour (6)
74 Lucy almost is excited to consume ordinary puree (6)
76 Exertion of ref possibly over time (6)
77 Softly spoken friend proves sociable (5)
78 Unease infecting gang, strangely (5)
79 Rascal from southern holiday site (5)
81 Dry poster about Rhode Island (4)