GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Causing a state of mental or emotional strain or tension (9) 6 Authoritative
prohibition (4) 9 Tufts (5)
12 Lament for the
dead (5)
13 The footprint of an
animal (3)
15 Third largest island
in the world (6) 17 Unexceptional
(3,2,3,4)
18 Cradle song (7) 20 Making a mistake
(6)
22 Familiar and at ease with many different cultures (12) 27 Capital of the
Algarve (4)
29 Part human, part cobra creature of Indian mythology
(4)
30 Splits between strongly opposed parties (7) 33 Negative responses
(3)
34 Adult male chicken
(7)
36 Region of complete
shadow (5) 37 Heavenly body (4) 38 Bhindi (4)
39 Make a choice from a range of possibilities (3) 41 Wading bird (4) 43 External (5) 44 School that one formerly attended (4,5)
45 Escalate (4,2) 49 Cousin in The
Addams Family (3) 50 Very (11)
51 Displaces from an accustomed location (7) 52 Without delay (6) 53 Family group (4) 54 Quakes (8) 56 Ligneous plants (5) 58 City of NE Italy (5) 60 Marked by fidelity
(8)
63 Quantity of paper
(4)
64 Ragged (6) 65 Prehistoric period
(4,3) 67 Keen enjoyment of
living (4,2,5) 68 Explosive material
(1,1,1)
69 More humble in
spirit or manner (6) 73 Commission charged by one acting as a buyer and seller (9) 74 Make corrections
to (a text) (5) 75 Territory (4) 77 Two-player game involving picking up objects from heaps (3)
78 Solid fuel that remains after distillation of coal (4) 79 Horizontal strip in a
Venetian blind (4) 80 Chain of mountains
(5)
81 Home of the
blessed after death in Greek mythology (7)
82 In the style of (1,2) 83 Template for painting (7) 86 Young hawk (4) 87 Pigmented layer of the eye (4)
89 Their job involves selling and renting out buildings (6,6) 94 Diminishing (6) 96 Small bone (in the ear) (7) 97 Accustomed to home life (12) 99 Hang freely (6)
101 Also (archaic) (3) 102 Establish by law or with authority (5) 103 Become established (3,2) 104 Polynesian garlands of flowers (4) 105 Half-year terms in the US (9)
DOWN
1 Characterised by the seeing of objects in three dimensions (12) 2 Renaissance (7) 3 Alarm (5) 4 Payment made for services (3)
5 Very rich woman (13)
6 Exceedingly (4) 7 Rounded convex moulding in architecture (5) 8 Object of spiritual significance (5) 9 Great sorrow or distress (3) 10 Ability (5)
11 Divide (5)
14 Fool (4)
16 Name of five kings of Norway (4) 19 Dwarfed
ornamental tree (6) 21 Leg (3)
22 Magazine (9) 23 Envelops
completely (9) 24 Toothache (10) 25 Web-footed members of the weasel family (6) 26 Comment which makes an illuminating point (6) 28 Having high
aspirations (9) 31 Not impossible to
conquer (12)
32 Sink below the
surface (8)
35 Loose flowing
garment (4)
40 Child who reports others’ wrongdoings (10) 42 One who wastes
money (11) 46 Mayonnaise mixed with onion, gherkins and capers (7,5) 47 Arboreal weasellike mammal of northern Eurasia (4,6)
48 Picture taken by a
camera (5) 55 Surrey town which has a racecourse
(5)
57 Giving the confidence to take control (10) 58 Declare in a formal
way (9)
59 Metabolic disorder
(8)
60 Members of a team who are not batting (9)
61 Moves about on a
rink (3-6)
62 White wine from
the Rhine valley (13) 66 They study the
origins of words (12) 70 Second book of the
Old Testament (6) 71 It connects the tibia and fibula with the femur (4)
72 Correct errors in text composed on a keyboard (6) 76 Decrees in tsarist
Russia (6)
84 Pull along behind
(3)
85 About one-fifth of the world speak a form of this language (7) 88 Grew older (4) 89 Freedom from difficulty or effort
(4)
90 Periodic changes of
sea level (5)
91 Entice (5)
92 Live (5)
93 Catch fish by
dragging a net (5) 95 One of the oldest cities of ancient Greece (5)
96 Lyric poems written to address a particular subject (4)
98 Member of the Bushmen of southern Africa (3) 100 Yearly assembly of
shareholders (1,1,1)
Making the grade: Grading fish on the quayside at Hull in March 1937. The catches consisted of cod, haddock and halibut. Lent and the approach of Easter meant a busy time for the fishermen at Hull Docks despite recent gales.