GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
3 Striking (3-8) 9 Criticised harshly
(9)
13 Uncastrated domestic male pig (4)
14 Small (3)
16 Building for viewing astronomical phenomena (11) 17 Starting at (4) 18 Search thoroughly
(5)
19 Infants (5)
22 Travel through
water (4)
23 Grain used in
brewing (4) 25 Refuse to comply
with (4)
27 Period of time (4) 29 Completely destroy
(4)
30 Rate (4)
32 Stress or distinctive vocal characteristic (6) 33 Sculpture of the head and shoulders (4)
35 Not from the front
or the back (8) 36 They join floors (6) 38 Steel tower supporting hightension wires (5) 39 Period preceding
Easter (4) 43 Metallic element of atomic number 68 (6)
46 Poker pot (4) 47 Investigations into people’s financial situations (5,5) 51 Increase in the
level (9)
52 Taking in food (6) 56 First name of illusionist Mr Geller (3)
57 Made worse (11) 58 Reproduce rapidly
(11)
59 Abbreviation for
hundredweight (3) 61 Conditions (6) 65 Pus-filled swollen areas within body tissue (9) 66 Clothing worn to
compete or for casual outdoor use (10)
67 Recedes (4)
68 One or the other (6)
70 Informal talk (4) 71 Small light cake (5) 73 Capital of Colombia (6)
75 Site of Napoleon’s defeat (8) 81 Exaggeratedly proper (4) 82 Period of ten years (6)
84 Plant with a swollen edible root (4)
85 Smaller than average tide (4) 87 Cook in an oven (4) 88 Steep rugged rock or cliff (4)
90 Prong (4) 91 Dark red or purplebrown colour (4) 93 Private teacher (5) 97 Attain (5) 99 Suggestion (4)
100 Mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia (11) 101 Suffix denoting a person who practises discrimination (3) 102 Booty (4)
103 Fast-paced ballroom dance (4,5)
104 Bypasses (6,5)
DOWN
1 Resident of an urban area (8) 2 1975 film directed by Steven Spielberg (4) 4 Huge (8)
5 With no qualification or restriction (10) 6 Cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears (4) 7 Country in the Middle East (4) 8 Spherical map of the earth (5)
9 Place for drivers to stop by the side of the road (3-2) 10 Skeletal component (4) 11 Rotated (6)
12 Tip (4)
13 Cast a spell over (7) 15 Explosive device (4) 20 Hard seed of coffee or cocoa plants (4) 21 Perspire (5) 24 Bound bundle of paper, hay, etc. (4) 25 Make not recognised or strange (13)
26 Fish limbs (4) 28 The green-eyed monster (4) 31 Machines that hold money and record sales (4,9) 34 Unspecified place (9)
36 Beginning (5) 37 Area of West London (5) 40 Sword used in fencing (4)
41 So slight, gradual, or subtle as not to be noticeable (13) 42 Small settlements (7)
44 Back (4) 45 Done without concern for the consequences (8) 48 Desert in northern
Africa (6)
49 Part (8)
50 Making essential as a consequence (13)
53 Filled with respectful fear or wonder (9)
54 Son of Daedalus (6) 55 Estimates (7) 60 Yield (4)
62 Forbidden (5) 63 Opera by Puccini
(5)
64 Long story of
heroic deeds (4) 69 Owner of a
business (10) 72 Scottish word for
turnip (4)
74 Asian country in
the Himalayas (5) 75 Low dam (4) 76 Open way for travel
(4)
77 Roman name for
Ireland (8)
78 Free from slavery
(7)
79 Turncoat (8) 80 Green, as a heraldic tincture
(4)
83 Provoking remarks
(6)
86 Person appointed by government to advise (4)
88 Large, long-necked
wading bird (5) 89 One of the deadly
sins (5) 92 Emporium (4) 94 Reverse (4)
95 Irk (4)
96 Minute arachnid
(4)
98 Thing designed to catch people’s attention (4)