GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers.
ACROSS
13 Categorise as a bird
nest, perhaps (10)
14 Complain to the better half
about the advertisement (7)
15 Caught, the bird is
very fearful (6)
16 Scrub many clean,
somehow (6)
17 Say “Running after
soldiers? Not I!” (7)
18 Snap “It’s how people
think of me” (5)
19 Something to eat,
pretty lady? (4)
20 Come back, dear, one
day when it’s warm (5)
21 “Small and badly torn,”
you say crossly (5)
22 Again a number, to his
consternation, enjoy it (6)
23 Figure, given the short distance, it’s a sure thing (5)
28 Fellow with a tiger
travelling on a boat (7)
30 Old, I note, and fabricated
by myself (3-4)
33 Foolish, to be blunt (9)
36 Sad the new maid’s left (6)
38 Until the point penetrates
the material (5) 39 Had taken out “pale
and haggard” (5)
40 Dog that is following
the girl (6)
42 Stop to pop a note
into the box (5)
43 Glad to travel with
one in Ireland (7)
44 At the time that it was
put in to bleach (6)
46 Beef on the menu in
a fish restaurant (4)
49 An incentive that would
be rejected by Ned (4)
51 Understanding, go round
to have a meal (6)
53 A novice jumper (7)
55 A really good try (5)
59 Prepared to let out, you
make your home in (6)
60 Mercy! It’s a girl! (5)
61 A time back, the soldier
was captured by (5)
62 Though jammed, at one
point moved a little (6)
63 Why smoke is coming from
the Reptile House? (4,5)
65 To mollify, set a time
for entering (7)
66 Say, it’s wrongly
laced again (7)
70 Within a year, roughly
fifty pass on (5)
71 Tell you it’s smart –
the done thing (6)
73 Two points about
the car alarm (5)
75 Reel – a dance (5)
80 Unhappy with
the colour (4)
82 A very good first (5)
83 Always, when back, a
lie-in does lessen it (7)
84 Agree getting a break
point in will annoy (6)
85 Suppose, when the
birds return to (6)
86 Catches and ties to (7)
87 Continuing to play dice
while talking (8,2)
DOWN 1
Page I tear out from “The Plagiarist” (6)
2 Charming, one’s
going for (8)
3 I left in the funny clue
about a relation (5)
4 Say to get the f-fellows
into bed (7)
5 More stingy, myself
– terribly near (6)
6 Part of the flight there’s
a to-do about (5) 7 Emblem of the
prohibitionist? (6)
8 In a lucid, way,
obviously (7)
9 Once one yields to emotion, ceases to function (6,4)
10 With a cold in the head,
muzzy, longed for (5)
11 Give the man a leaflet (8)
12 Pickle for the
dining room (4)
24 Distributing riches all
round, a teller (7)
25 And yet is calm (5)
26 The language, when a
nail was broken by it! (7)
27 Tend to when
there’s a hill (7)
29 Lift again, as I
stumble into (5)
31 One’s accommodated in the converted one.
It’s a rocket (5)
32 Forced to put an
advertisement in, myself (4)
34 The dog paddle, for instance, is enjoyed by a dog! (6)
35 Had been hard to clean (4)
37 Animal the Ark, sailing,
must have carried (7) 41 Got and tied up with (7)
45 Figure when he left
they went in (6)
47 Goes to a couple of
times, then stops (7)
48 Pull out and put right back
in the chest, folded (7)
50 Suppose you’ll continue,
on the quiet (7)
52 Collar that’s turned
up a bit (4)
54 The punch is just as
it should be (5)
56 Certain in your mind you’ll
make money from (5)
57 Can’t keep a secret
from William (4)
58 Had now changed
the name (5)
60 Getting the OK, though
a shade frivolous (5,5)
64 Got angry and terribly
rude when in a flap (6,2)
67 Letting down a long coiled
wire through the centre (8)
68 Getting the chaps most perturbed about, in a little while (7)
69 Stops the stars
performing again in (7)
72 Say nothing to the girl
about it being soggy (6) 74 Thanks for the
encouragement (6)
76 Nosing about while
you enrol (4,2)
77 Saw, or s-spotted (5)
78 A twinkling light (5)
79 Shuts up the performing
animals (5)
81 Bind the hair (4)