Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Icy storage cabinet (7)
14 Caption of a newspaper article (8)
Polish composer of
(6) Canoe made of skins (5) Pause (4) Cordially (7) Obsess, plague (5) Original site of the Royal Observatory (9) Cleave (5) Complete lack of money and other basic needs (7) Devilish (8) Consuming (5) Chaperone (6) Country bordering Libya (7) Washed without water (3‑7)
41 Discounted (8)
44 Compensate (for) (5)
45 ___ Waugh, author of (6) Divulge in private (7) Team quiz (5,4)
Be gone! (5,3) Adhering to neither religion nor atheism (8) Staunched (7)
Tripe, chitterlings etc (5) Fight held at dawn (4) Australia/England cricket ‘trophy’ (5) Smallest number (3) Pub, hotel (3)
Yet (5)
First son of Adam and Eve (4)
Convey (5)
Vast area of north‑eastern Russia (7) Glide on frozen water (3‑5) Quick on the uptake (3,5) Used up, exhausted (6,3) Early radio receiver (7) 15
16 19 20 21 22
23 24
26 29 34 35 37 46 48 50 52
55 57 59 60
62 65 66 67
68 69
73 75 76 79 81 Breakfast fish (6)
83 Subject to ebb and flow (5)
85 Falling due for renewal (8)
88 Opening (a jar) (10)
89 Radio reception problem (7)
90 Uncomprehending (6)
94 Bedtime drink (5)
95 Finishing point (8)
98 Attack (7)
100Surface decoration (5)
104Aware of current
events (2,3,4)
107 Zodiac maiden (5)
108Cargo saved from
a wrecked ship (7)
109Ballet dancer’s skirt (4)
110 ___ Tonioli, former
judge (5)
111 Amusement centre (6)
112 Absconder (8)
113 Engraver’s tool (7)
DOWN
1 Animal raiser (7)
2 North American hickory (5)
3 Water‑worn stone (6)
4 Counter‑current (4)
5 Little corner (5)
6 Spurn (6)
7 Person from Glasgow, eg (4)
Evaded (6) Fairground or theme park attraction (4) Vehicle and driver for hire (4) Appliance (7) Starters, appetisers (7) On the waves (6) Extreme edge (3) Dance of Argentinian origin (5)
___ Izzard, stand‑up comedian (5) Surface under a window (4) Platform supported by wall brackets (5) 8 9
10
11 13 17 18 25
27
28 30 31 32 33 35 36
Boxing contest (4) Guided (in) (7) Dog‑faced monkey (6) Indication (5)
People of the same generation (3,5)
38 ___ Ma, cellist (2‑2)
39 Tyrant, autocrat (6)
40 Be impressed by (6)
42 Rounded vase (3)
43 Town in Kent (4)
47 Sailing boat (5)
49 Long vegetables (5)
50 Clergy’s area of a church (7)
51 Leaves, greenery (7)
53 Gave a lecture (5)
54 Matching set of two (4)
56 Below zero on a
temperature scale (5) 58 61 63 64 65 70 71
Matted fabric (4)
Set of furniture (5) Banknote (5) Important in the past (8) Crept (forward) (6) Recite, chant (6) Based on a written source (7) American university (4) Employment bureau (6) Heartbeat (5)
Scull (3)
South Pacific country, capital Suva (4)
80 Wild dog of Australia (5) 82 Follower of a pre‑Christian religion (5) Long walls to prevent flooding from the sea (5)
72 74 76 77 78 84 86 87 90 91
Essence (4)
___ Hackman, US actor (4) Container of lubrication (6) Frank ___, crooner from
(7)
Art of cutting trees into imitative shapes (7)
Box containing cutlery (7) Animal that suckles its young (6)
97 Walked with a long pace (6)
99 Catnapping (6)
101 Children’s hideout (3)
102 Traditional Sunday lunch (5)
103 Carpenter’s work table (5)
105 Incline (to) (4)
106Legless garden friend (4)
107 Change course (4)
108Feudal slave (4)
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93 96
24 25
Organ stop, the wrong way to inspire affection (6) Hymns with footnote for charity donations (6)