GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Telling off (8,4) 5 Designed to
improve looks (8) 10 Difficult or unusual
feat (5)
15 Made up of small parts that seem unrelated (5) 17 Vehicles use these
to get to places (6,5) 18 Luxurious, spacious
and splendid (8) 19 Men who herd cattle on horseback (7)
21 Confectionery (6) 24 Very small (4) 28 Come together (4) 31 Rotting and emitting a fetid smell (6)
32 Across (7) 34 Prospers (7) 35 Swiss hotelier who created a chain of elegant hotels (4) 36 Paddle (3)
37 Town and area in south east London (9)
39 Activity leading to
skilled behaviour (8) 40 State in the USA whose capital is Salem (6)
42 US river (11)
43 From a country in the south of the Arabian peninsula (6)
44 Town on the Isle of
Wight (5)
46 Cruelly barbaric
person (5)
48 Visited (4)
50 Speck (4)
52 The killing of a large number of people (7)
53 Detest (4) 55 Bloodsucking
insects (4) 58 Skeleton of the
head (5)
59 Is afraid of (5) 61 Equilateral
quadrilaterals (6) 62 Makes incapable of
movement (11) 64 Mythical creature
(6)
66 Prolonged period of abnormally hot weather (4,4) 67 Merciless (9)
70 It was established in 1948 by Nye Bevan (3)
71 Lower part of a wall finished differently from the rest (4) 73 Let up (4,3)
74 Sound made by air moving rapidly through a small hole (7)
75 Seaport on the Andalusian coast (6)
76 Go in advance of
others (4) 77 Bloodsucking parasite (4) 79 Incendiary liquid (6) 84 Large loaf (7) 88 Numerous (8) 90 Extensive group of islands (11) 91 Ungulate mammals have these (5) 92 Furnished with weapons (5) 93 Earnest or urgent request (8) 94 Contracts which offer financial support in return for advertising (12)
DOWN
2 Joint in the arm (5) 3 One of the southernmost boroughs of
London (6)
4 Capital of Qatar (4) 6 Egg-shaped (4) 7 Dirt (4)
8 Easily irritated (5) 9 Horse-drawn vehicles (5) 10 Shaped tool for forming metal by hammering (5)
11 In an unhappy and worried mental state (5)
12 Type of wood (4) 13 Type of shoe heel
(8)
14 Awkward (13)
16 Kind of West Indian music (7)
20 Most covered in wet earth (8)
22 Enclose in paper or soft, flexible material (4) 23 Broadcasting
companies (8) 25 Made up (8) 26 Ruddy (8)
27 Capital of
Cambodia (5,4) 29 Sudden violent shaking of the ground (10)
30 Part of the church that crosses the nave at right angles (8)
33 Not false (4) 34 Nipple (4)
38 Act of leaving a job
(11)
41 Greek island off the
Turkish coast (6) 42 Cut into small
pieces (5) 45 Radiance (10) 47 Organism in the early stages of growth (6)
48 Ursine mammals
(5)
49 Rash (3-10) 51 Completely remove
(9)
54 Desire and determination to achieve success (8) 56 Person in charge of
a gaming table (8) 57 Relating to the application of scientific methods to crime investigation (8) 59 Abandoned (8) 60 Card game (3,5) 63 Home (informal) (4) 65 Become larger (4) 68 Small compact
particles (8) 69 Member of a jazzloving subculture in the 1950-60s (7) 72 Shallow channel cut by running water
(4)
78 Machines capable of carrying out complex actions automatically (6) 80 Consternation (5) 81 Moved with a curving trajectory (5)
82 US state nicknamed the Pine Tree State (5)
83 Not concealed (5) 85 Member of a
Kenyan people (5) 86 Capital of Fiji (4) 87 For men or boys (4) 88 Ditch dug as a
fortification (4) 89 Right to keep property until a debt is repaid (4)