GIANT CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 12

Besides it is, for a longer journey, extra (11)

13 A fat person putting

forward objections? (6)

14 Intimate a tin hat would

be wrong (4,2)

16 A number held in

charge run away (4)

17 Screened off when I

enter the home (9)

18 Happen to have put our

duplicate keys in (5)

19 Cushions for homes (4)

20 Going to be good –

giving one’s word (9)

22 Notice the dirty exterior:

disreputable (5)

23 Pat’s wrong in slick

comedy (9)

27 There’s a sharp point

to it, in the aviary (7)

30 Depending on, was

delayed (4,2)

31 Partakes of the hot food (4) 32 One day she

buttonholes you (5)

35 That’s a lot for board (4)

36 Speaking to on the

telephone when it’s over (7) 38 Call for proof of

marriage (4) 39 Reading through

“American Man” (7)

42 Had opted for the little child with the funny nose (6)

45 When teacher’s head

is turned, do (5)

46 Go ahead – go back

to the piano (7)

47 Go on and on about what

you’ll have in heaven? (4) 48 Something cheap you

get the scissors to? (4)

50 Short of time, rang

the bell (7)

52 The guard again got

the number (5)

54 Now get fed up about and there’s a stream of abuse (6)

56 Wanted, indeed,

to get a title (7)

57 Think, myself, the editor

will send it back (4)

59 Many were given time

for having a captive (7)

61 Separate section (4)

64 Say it’s the second

highest point (5)

66 Photographed the

marksman (4)

67 Am I to fly round with

the wife and kids? (6)

69 Behave yourself when

you act as leader (7)

72 At liberty to open up,

being self-employed (9) 73 Creating, at the end,

a weird monster (5)

74 Not having a prayer

– is clumsy (9)

79 Eat and run (4)

81 A fighter – one of eight (5) 82 A curt “Evil, sadly, proves

to be profitable” (9)

83 Let go of the bag (4)

85 Come to a hill (6)

86 Alters “Comes to a

conclusion about me” (6) 87 Best thing about a pencil that doesn’t keep breaking? (6,5)

DOWN

1 Influence the yank (4)

2 Current rates change by

the start of the month (6) 3 Is told money makes

money (6)

4 Funny, in a smug

sort of way (7)

5 Be free to enter

with the wife (5)

6 A great rhyming

couplet! (5-5)

7 Seat the loose lost

ring was found in (5)

8 Value depreciated?

That’s funny! (9)

9 The injured party, a man,

came in for treatment (7) 10 Still speak angrily to (4)

11 Race the chap organised

and I entered for (8)

15 Of course in the end

I’d turned the key (6)

21 Prick up the ears strangely

when I enter (5)

24 Order in a touch more

than you need (3,4)

25 Shake your head

at the waste (6)

26 Amend to “money

back” (6)

28 Rings back, putting a

pound in the slot (5)

29 Don’t keep turning

to the right (3)

33 A really good banger! (7) 34 Failing, become

a turncoat (6)

37 Awful heat a number

couldn’t stand (5)

40 Dry, imbibes a

cold bitter (5)

41 The many averse to

change: a large number (7) 43 So he got to France

half cut (5)

44 Stuff the brooch

back, child (6)

46 With a quiet chat, resolved to settle your differences (5)

49 Confidential talk the four

are shut inside for (7)

51 In that case, shut up and

switch the heat on! (6)

53 Whisper “Are thieves” (6) 55 Secured work when

in the red (5)

58 Good gracious!

“Pretty Woman” as a musical! (2,4,4)

60 I for instance, got

a duck (3)

62 The dresses being

topless amazes one (5)

63 It won’t give a peep

when you uproot it! (9)

65 “I’m sorry”, as the prisoner said to the parole board (6,2)

68 A threat to people,

one is (6)

70 Imitates birds (7)

71 This rat has a

characteristic gold tail (7) 75 The cloth, a little bit of

cloth, grey and tattered (6) 76 Would it teach you to leave

switched off more? (6)

77 Bound to let rain in, though

one did one’s best (5)

78 Squander on rubbish? (5) 80 Instructed to say it’s

at full stretch (4)

84 Caught at lunchtime

having an ice cream (4)