GIANT CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
13 Bed (4-6)
14 Pupil (7)
15 Merchant (6)
16 Dance (6)
17 Size up (7)
18 Accommodate (3,2)
19 Launched (4)
20 Establish (3,2)
21 Feel (5)
22 Supposition (6)
23 Shore (5)
28 Plant (7)
30 Haircut (7)
33 Stopping (7,2)
36 Golf club (6)
38 Ship (5)
39 Letter (5)
40 Urge (6)
42 Started (5)
43 Guided (7)
44 Nonsense (6)
46 Act (4)
49 Bag (4)
51 Stand (6)
53 Empathy (7)
55 Card game (5)
59 Watch chain (6)
60 Yet (5)
61 Slip (5)
62 Refuse (6)
63 Fruit (9)
65 Get back (7)
66 Shrivels (7)
70 Nervous (5)
71 Leave (6)
73 Meat (5)
75 Bang (5)
80 As well (4)
82 Lying (5)
83 Profits (7)
84 Promise (6)
85 Jiffy (6)
86 Exploded (4,3)
87 Fondness (10)
DOWN
1 Give (6)
2 Leaflet (8)
3 Jump (5)
4 Imprinted (7)
5 Fantasies (6)
6 Fast (5)
7 Obvious (6)
8 Fish (7)
9 Be on to (3,9)
10 Prevents (5)
11 Decrees (4,4)
12 Propose (4)
24 Blind (7)
25 Blazing (5)
26 Tangled (7)
27 Clearly (7)
29 Waken (5)
31 So (5)
32 Conduct (4)
34 Delighted (6)
35 Move (4)
37 Trudge (7)
41 Be scolded (5,2)
45 Changes (6)
47 Skin (7)
48 Rage (7)
50 Free (7)
52 Wreck (4)
54 Excellent (5)
56 Steep (5)
57 Depressed (4)
58 Maintain (5)
60 As expected (4,6) 64 Child’s play (8)
67 Generous (8)
68 Show (7)
69 Dogs (7)
72 Flatfish (6)
74 Warning (6)
76 Minding (6)
77 Quarrels (5)
78 Hard (5)
79 Observe (5)
81 Big game (4)
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
13 Figure the advertisement is for a bed (4-6)
14 I enter, to run in it, a novice (7)
15 Again rush back to the merchant (6)
16 Are able to encore the dance (6)
17 For me, a certain step to be taken (7)
18 Either way, are accommodating (3,2)
19 Delighted to have launched (4)
20 Establish to be badly upset (3,2)
21 Feel it’s essential to start off with (5)
22 Supposition is the conservative male will get in (6)
23 Threw the ball in from the shore (5)
28 Spring is back, a plant reveals (7)
30 The one H in “haircut” (7)
33 Rebuking for stopping (7,2)
36 A club but soft, you say (6)
38 Does it rule the waves? (5)
39 I’m dropping him this letter (5)
40 Urge to put it in a nice new frame (6)
42 Started with a bang, roughly round mid September (5)
43 Guided the horse again through (7)
44 Nonsense! Take the wheel beside the learner (6)
46 Something in the bill that gives you a shock (4)
49 Seize an item of luggage (4)
51 To the last, rue moving but put up with (6)
53 Understanding as usual, turned left (7)
55 Point this out in the game (5)
59 A human chain! (6)
60 And yet, having a picture of (5)
61 Skid round the left side (5)
62 The young leave things lying around (6)
63 A tool found in the orchard? (9)
65 Get back and pull through (7)
66 How one hesitates in speech and dries up (7)
70 Presented, with fluttering heart, is nervous (5)
71 At the end of the parade, some leave (6)
73 Food from a small take-out (5)
75 Either say it’s no good or it’s bang on (5)
80 Added to which, a pound’s nothing (4)
82 Lying, as before, on the inside (5)
83 Gives it another whirl and profits from (7)
84 Equally convinced, promise one (6)
85 Just a second, mother. The net’s got tangled (6)
86 Had fallen out of love with and left (4,3)
87 A fondness for – getting stuck on (10)
DOWN
1 Give you a note – a note scribbled on (6)
2 Or possibly a flying cherub for the cover of the leaflet (8)
3 Will jump – is certain to (5)
4 Made an impression when one put one’s foot down firmly (7)
5 Imagines a doctor has the same trouble (6)
6 Drink with plenty of body (5)
7 It’s to deter pirates. That’s obvious (6)
8 A photographer in the aquarium (7)
9 Don’t be fooled by the “have X-ray eyes” (3,7)
10 Doesn’t allow, one sees, to return (5)
11 Decrees that one relinquishes arms (4,4)
12 Norm will propose to (4) 24 It makes a room dark and quiet, you say (7)
25 It’s very hot when that is put in to cook (5)
26 “Thoroughly confused”, you said angrily (7)
27 Obviously pally, playing about in (7)
29 Waken up by a river; an English river (5)
31 So then certainly will conceal it (5)
32 Induce one to be a conductor (4)
34 Delighted, as former editor, about (6)
35 By half past one, right to make a move (4)
37 Trudge right back with the peas I went out to get (7)
41 Be in trouble when you’re infected by the disease (5,2)
45 Figure the sign is not always the same (6)
47 It’s tough for the king to conceal (7)
48 Love is the rage (7)
50 Free about fifty with no trouble (7)
52 Wreck one runabout (4) 54 Good and proper, giving point to (5)
56 “It’s very steep”, the lady returned (5)
57 The shade is down (4)
58 Maintain calm, somehow, all round one (5)
60 As expected, adequately convinced by (4,6)
64 It’s easy to make one lose one’s balance (8)
67 With assistance, not all are generous (8)
68 “Show Time” be very eager to cover (7)
69 Puts one’s money on “Dopey”, going through the dogs (7)
72 Note the trout is swimming round the fish (6)
74 About that hiding, is a warning (6)
76 Worrying, call on the accountant (6)
77 Brushes the garments (5)
78 Fits up with fellow, through it’s hard (5)
79 Does it observe you strap it on? (5)
81 The game’s up for number one-fifty (4)