GIANT CROSSWORD
Choose between cryptic and quick clues to tackle the Giant crossword – both lead to the same answers. CRYPTIC
ACROSS 12
Performed some sleight of hand that was effective (3,3,5)
13 Conclude, when you
delve about in (6)
14 Use, to turn me against,
a subterfuge (6)
16 Is it nothing to
modern planes? (4)
17 Played, damaged the old
leg, and got a doctor in (9)
18 Half the directions are
wrong – it’s the drink! (5)
19 Bird act vet cut short (4)
20 Infringement that got
a girl into trouble (9)
22 “Accepted with thanks,”
followed by a name (5)
23 Right at the light, get on (9)
27 Strange bang I get, myself,
from being a celebrity (3,4)
30 Mean to be at home
to look after (6)
31 Players having a drink before the start of the meal (4)
32 Sean cut Penny’s initial
into the tree (5)
35 Create a mix-up,
causing a to-do (4)
36 Talk about, I figure,
but not in public (7)
38 Complain that the airline’s
got off to a dodgy start (4)
39 Stays with mother when the siren goes off outside (7)
42 Get away, case packed,
to have a little peace (6)
45 “Shot the man,” I put in (5)
46 Taking everything into consideration, a useful garment (7)
47 The bad turn, survive (4)
48 Report precisely on (4)
50 Besides being more
expensive to travel to (7)
52 Talk me into providing
amusements (5)
54 He left her heartbroken?
Very much so! (6)
56 Goes when one fixes it (7)
57 A bag you don’t allow
out of your clutches? (4)
59 Prove to be, of all the
people who’ve come to (7)
61 Good gracious! It’s
a shot, mum! (4)
64 Take off the clothes
worn when playing (5)
66 Arrived and, having the
keys, am entering (4)
67 A penny – or a nicker! (6) 69 Saw the place name (7)
72 “There’s a whiff of the country about,” you tease (9)
73 English chap preparing to
capture a pretty girl (5)
74 Some meant to wander
round the home (9)
79 Class as a questionnaire (4)
81 Covering a small wound
got from a plant (5)
82 With a pen, writing a
circle and a dot (9)
83 Not a long letter,
you observe (4)
85 Next I had been surrounded by a swarm of bees (6)
86 Allow the man is a killer (6)
87 Prolonging the act of
removing bodily (7,3)
DOWN
1 Catching it myself from
the little child (4)
2 Take exercise of a new sort, having put pounds on (6)
3 The altitude is hard to
put a figure on (6)
4 Do the edges in red (7)
5 The cops breaking a hole
in provide a news story (5)
6 Be careful, you who see
this. He’s telepathic (4,6)
7 Because the singer starts
with a nice medley (5)
8 Cry “Cut the boyfriend
in” (4,1,4)
9 Fears it’s a mistake
entering a back street (7)
10 Appeared heartless
when one mimicked (4)
11 The opposite of “talk” (8)
15 Satisfy by voicing
excuses (6)
21 I do squeeze into
it, like a dope (5)
24 Performing animal one
goes around with (2,5)
25 Cheating is not pretty (6)
26 Give the impression you’ll
attack physically (6)
28 Either a man dressed up
outside or a woman (5)
29 “Dry up” gives you
a shock (3)
33 Disagrees that it’s unlike (7)
34 Who squealed on the
bank robbers? (6)
37 Tree is not a crooked
dealer (5)
40 The one playing outside
is creating a racket (5) 41 Dad’s in so terrible
a rage (7)
43 Slim is the extra (5)
44 Attempt, though
it’s a strain (6)
46 Should have struggled
to get the top off (5)
49 Looking angry – that’s
very obvious (7)
51 Injured by the weapon
he had carried (6)
53 Having blemishes that
are noticeable (6)
55 Mean when drunk (5)
58 Did it cost the shipowner
a fortune? (6,4)
60 Shoot up to highest (3)
62 A grim “Load right
into the gun” (5)
63 At the pub, a girl
provides music (9)
65 See what the next page
says about pastry? (8)
68 Preserve from trouble (6)
70 Thought it funny when the boy took a huge tumble in (7)
71 “Wells” comes to mind (7)
75 Pass on the news to a
terribly irate figure (6)
76 Succeed in getting a key
that fits into the locks (6) 77 A fraction of the time,
then, is free (5)
78 Take a second left,
just for fun (5)
80 A girl who’s nuts
about one (4)
84 “Solicit” with the T gone (4)