GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Capital of Oregon
(5)
12 Bacterium that does not require free oxygen (8)
13 Oil burner with a
glass chimney (9,4) 16 Hoops (5) 17 Annoying or tedious person or thing (4,2,3,4)
18 Going out with
romantically (6) 19 Barrel-like
container (4) 21 Came back in (2-7) 24 Proletarian (6) 25 Female ovine
mammals (4) 27 Says aloud (6) 28 Armpit (6) 30 Shamefaced (7) 31 Textile fabric made from regenerated cellulose (5) 33 Rough and badmannered person (4)
36 Low-budget film made as a supporting feature (1-5)
37 Lancet arch (5) 39 Poetic word for a
lake or pond (4) 40 Cooking liquid obtained from small stoned fruits (5,3)
44 Central and South African tribal language group (5) 45 Ancient Roman
rulers (8)
47 Firm areas of flesh around the roots of the teeth (4)
48 In reality (2,5) 50 Vagrant (7)
51 Keeps (7)
56 Hinged doorway for
pets (3,4)
57 Spanish surrealist
painter (4)
60 Sea named after a
brown algae with rounded bladders (8)
62 Large windproof jacket with a hood (5)
64 Bridge that carries water (8) 65 Hostelries (4) 66 Talk (5)
67 Of a pale yellow colour (6)
68 States (4)
69 One who makes arrangements for other people (5) 70 Less wide (7) 71 Horse’s shelter (6) 74 Extract used on arrows as a poison (6)
77 Mountainous island of the Inner Hebrides (4) 78 Building where
films are shown (6) 79 Passed to a less senior person for execution (9) 83 Emblem of peace
(4)
85 Process in order to reject those that are unwanted (6) 86 They own and manage places for diners (13)
89 River in central
England (5) 90 Network of cells that transmits impulses round the body (7,6)
91 Large or excessive amount of something (8) 92 Needles (5)
DOWN
1 Thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain (8) 2 Connects (5) 3 Sturdy upright pole on a ship (4) 4 Bundle of soft material (3) 5 Becomes aware of (7)
6 Intentional (10) 7 Instances of gunfire (5)
8 Command (5) 9 Parcel (7) 10 Hayfields (7) 11 English Elizabethan
adventurer (6,7) 14 Day falling roughly in the middle of each Roman month (4)
15 Bedlam (11) 17 Committee appointed to judge a competition (5) 20 Make bigger or
smaller (6) 22 Dunnock (5,7) 23 Cause of obsessive fear, anxiety, or irritation (7) 26 Shrewd and
knowledgeable (5) 29 Country whose capital is Buenos Aires (9) 32 Astonished (6) 34 Straight slender
sticks (4)
35 Present (4)
38 Leap over (5) 41 Dwelling (5) 42 Depicting (12) 43 Pretence (3) 46 Rushes or coerces into doing something (9)
49 US Film award (5) 52 Refill (3-2)
53 Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series (3)
54 Slice of bacon (6) 55 Instruments for locating explosive devices (4,9) 58 Purchase of one company by another (11)
59 Dig with the snout
(4)
60 Is in or remains in a particular position or state (4)
61 Shine or sparkle (7) 63 Valleys (5)
66 Fixed and oversimplified image of a group (10)
67 Threads (6) 72 Prevents from
escaping (5) 73 Objects kept as
reminders (8) 74 Continue (5,2) 75 Repeated passage
in music (7) 76 Expresses sharp disapproval or criticism of (7) 80 Catch sight of (4) 81 Horrible (5) 82 Lotion (5)
84 24th letter of the
Greek alphabet (5) 87 Adult male deer (4) 88 Throw in a high arc
(3)