GIANT CROSSWORD

Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers.

QUICK ACROSS

13 All in all (2,3,5)

14 Trudge (7)

15 Greeted (6)

16 Uproar (6)

17 Corroborate (4,3)

18 Loop (5)

19 Claim (4)

20 Cries (5)

21 Centre (5)

22 Resolve (6)

23 Get to (5)

28 Wandered (7)

30 Cold (7)

33 Argue (4,5)

36 Adage (6)

38 Vessel (5)

39 Establish (5)

40 Flies (6)

42 Lumber (5)

43 Imported (7)

44 Verve (6)

46 Apparel (4)

49 Trip (4)

51 Say (6)

53 Fish (7)

55 Usual (5)

59 Mute (6)

60 Long (5)

61 Find (5)

62 Hurt (6)

63 Delirious (9)

65 Music (7)

66 Bangs (7)

70 Number (5)

71 Wants (6)

73 Award (5)

75 Shabby (5)

80 Sketch (4)

82 Fragment (5)

83 Strange (7)

84 Parcel (6)

85 Deputise (4,2)

86 Obvious (7)

87 Apathetic (10)

DOWN

1 Guarantee (6)

2 Pulse (8)

3 Wobbles (5)

4 Increases (7)

5 Go off (6)

6 Got up (5)

7 Tangled (6)

8 Vegetable (7)

9 Used (6-4)

10 Nerve (5)

11 Title (8)

12 Exclamation (4)

24 Token (7)

25 Border (5)

26 Norm (7)

27 Break (7)

29 Quality (5)

31 So (5)

32 Separation (4)

34 Thrives (6)

35 Projection (4)

37 Annoy (7)

41 Less serious (7)

45 Din (6)

47 Catch (7)

48 Fond of (7)

50 Soldier (7)

52 True (4)

54 Haggard (5)

56 Defraud (5)

57 Abandoned (4)

58 Paper (5)

60 Thought (10)

64 Succeeds (4,4)

67 Dull (8)

68 Goodbye (7)

69 Search (7)

72 Fool (6)

74 Ruins (6)

76 Miserable (6)

77 Prickly (5)

78 Chatter (5)

79 Let drop (5)

81 Mar (4)

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

13 Covering everything, all in all (2,3,5)

14 Made up as pirates, trudge off (7)

15 Having had the odd liein when it was cold (6)

16 Dismissed, yell at, creating an uproar (6)

17 Corroborate there will be a flight (4,3)

18 A loop, or ring, one’s to wind round (5)

19 Claim you don’t relinquish (4)

20 Looks for signs of life in the incubator (5)

21 In the Arts Centre (5)

22 Resolve to return to the man in charge: the editor (6)

23 Get to a hundred in her collection (5)

28 Having wandered right in, didn’t leave (7)

30 After his swim, extremely cold (7)

33 Argue that you must escort the children to (4,5)

36 Pronouncing to be a hackneyed phrase (6)

38 The vessel’s turning again, love (5)

39 Establish it’s no longer missing (5)

40 I spot roughly about fifty flies (6)

42 Lumber one with the dull person (5)

43 Or pretend about its being imported (7)

44 Get up and go for the ghost (6)

46 Talk about royal apparel (4)

49 One’s personal slant given on the trip (4)

51 Say when, before the rest is poured (6)

53 Also say white wine will come round with the fish (7)

55 Animals, as usual (5)

59 Saying nothing when the tiles are broken: about a quarter (6)

60 Long and cold, say how good it is (5)

61 Find he has withdrawn from the event (5)

62 Hurt the arm he had around (6)

63 And when we call round is delirious (9)

65 The stars dance around in, to music (7)

66 Tells on and there are repercussions (7)

70 Had looked about five, but is a little older (5)

71 Wants the one she’s got, at the bottom of the row (6)

73 A presentable man (5)

75 Notice Danny without Ann has become shabby (5)

80 As a result, be artistic (4)

82 “Quiet!” you say – and that’s not all (5)

83 Strange clue for “nosy” (7)

84 Does it cost a lot to post? (6)

85 Complete the questionnaire to become a temp? (4,2)

86 It’s obvious I’ve been ruined by the depression (7)

87 Matt is apathetic (10)

DOWN

1 Guarantee, before the sun sets in (6)

2 Vegetable served at

the girlie meal? (8)

3 Wobbles, which helps

make up one’s mind (5)

4 Makes twice as much

as the understudies (7) 5 Go off at about two (6)

6 Got up to “covered in turf” (5)

7 The two boys stuck together (6)

8 Turn a child against healthy food (7)

9 Won’t a new watch have one? (6,4)

10 The face – or part of it (5)

11 How lofty a title! (8)

12 Good gracious! OK! (4)

24 He reckons it’s used instead of money (7)

25 Transplant half the evergreens in the border (5)

26 Say time will show to be no genius (7)

27 Break it in a drunken spree (7)

29 With characteristic skill, reversed it (5)

31 So he once dropped the ball? (5)

32 If right about the separation (4)

34 Thrives, bearing fifty flowers (6)

35 Sing quietly – the blues (4)

37 Smoke – and that does annoy (7)

41 The new girl flitting about is more frivolous (7)

45 Gad about with a big noise (6)

47 Catch the cat up, scampering again (7)

48 The usual tail wag, showing it’s fond of (7)

50 He wears uniform, but not in public (7)

52 Are wandering at large, it’s true (4)

54 Looking tired and terribly wan, going to the doctor (5)

56 He is caught in the act, out to defraud (5)

57 Abandoned in port (4)

58 Say nothing and stand up to get the paper (5)

60 Thought for a second, worried about the dire possibility (10)

64 Succeeds in getting the deer to the water (4,4)

67 Dull and with too many actors in (8)

68 In business here I go bust and it’s adios! (7)

69 Smuggled pouch you search for (7)

72 Idiot with a straw in his mouth? (6)

74 Makes a mess of catching the ball: slips op (6)

76 Are awfully thirsty all round, which is miserable (6)

77 The agent captured in is hard to handle (5)

78 Chatter at before embracing (5)

79 Let drop a small item from the medicine cabinet (5)

81 Spoil things by giving one the run-around (4)