GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Chew noisily (5) 12 Travel past in a
vehicle (8) 13 Failure to be
present (3-10) 16 Places (5) 17 Peppermintflavoured liqueur (5,2,6)
18 Tropical bird sometimes kept as a pet (6) 19 Olfactory organ (4) 22 Fabric with a
ribbed surface (3) 23 Paltered (12)
26 US name for the
lime tree (6) 27 Decorative container for flowers (4) 28 Develop over time
(6)
30 Thin stick used to push the charge into a firearm (6) 32 Frolicsome (7) 33 Devoutness (5) 35 Lie in wait (4) 38 Material
possessions (6) 39 Helpers (10) 42 Scholarly (8) 45 Imperial units of
length (5) 46 Watchers (10) 50 Supporters of a particular party or doctrine collectively (4) 51 Outermost layer of
a grape (7) 52 Becomes less soft
(7)
54 Clumsy (7)
59 Daily (7)
60 US and European organisation formed in 1949 (4) 62 Ruining (10) 66 Common
computer font (5) 68 Soft heated mass spread on cloth and applied to an injury (8) 69 Characterised by division between opposing parties (10)
71 Aromatic food
flavourings (6) 72 Split (4) 74 Nil (5)
75 Item of jewellery (7) 76 Native of an Asian country high in the Himalayas (6) 79 Boil slowly (6) 82 Knife (4)
83 Enrol in the armed services (6) 84 Public road (12) 86 Excellent (US) (3) 89 Each of the flat surfaces of a solid object (4)
91 Small travelling bag (6)
92 Pertussis (8,5) 95 Jerks (5)
96 French for breakfast (5,8) 97 Make level (8) 98 Marine mammals that come on shore to breed (5)
DOWN
1 Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his exploits (8)
2 Stakes (5)
3 Swish (4) 4 Interjection of surprise (in the US) (3)
5 Field event (7) 6 Plants used as food (10)
7 Involuntary expulsion of air from the nose (6) 8 Come in (5) 9 All-purpose (7) 10 Make unable to walk or operate effectively (7) 11 Stubbornness (13) 14 Hit a golf ball gently (4)
15 Trait of regarding everything only in relation to oneself (11)
17 Cigar made with light-coloured tobacco (5) 20 Large table centrepiece with branching holders (7)
21 The great messenger of the gods in Greek mythology (6) 24 Action of protecting against attack (7)
25 Firmly established
(4,3)
29 Paddle (3) 31 Rodent living in an arid environment (6,3) 34 Interjection used upon making a mistake (6) 36 Knockout
(informal) (4) 37 Landlocked country in SE Asia (4)
40 Matter (5)
41 Long pointed teeth
(5)
43 Filaments that make up the mycelium of a fungus (6)
44 Upper limit imposed on spending or borrowing (3) 47 Bovine mammal (3) 48 Custom (9) 49 Conundrum (6) 53 Vote against (3) 54 A constituency of the Scottish Parliament (5) 55 Australian arboreal
marsupial (5) 56 Growth which develops into a leaf, flower or shoot (3) 57 Filled out (6) 58 They believe in emphasis on groups not individuals (13) 61 Stringed instrument played by the wind (7,4) 62 Fall in droplets (4) 63 One who has visions of the future (4)
64 Edible bivalve
molluscs (7) 65 Receive from an
ancestor (7)
67 Acts as a mediator
(7)
70 French white wine made in a subregion of Burgundy (10) 71 Having only magnitude, not direction (6) 73 Distinctive practice, philosophy, political ideology, etc. (3) 77 Ancient Hebrew capacity measure (5)
78 Preoccupies
intensely (8) 79 Residential roads
(7)
80 Around
Wednesday or Thursday (7) 81 Globular cloud (7) 85 Empty-bellied (6) 87 Dullard (4) 88 Commences (5) 90 Central part of the west coast of Asia Minor (5)
93 Sight organs (4) 94 Family and
relations (3)
Cap that: A section of the huge crowd at the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Manchester United at Bramall Lane stadium, Sheffield, 27th March 1926. Manchester City went on to win the match 3-0.