GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Toothed wheels (4) 3 Adhesive (4)
6 Obtain by persuasion
or guile (4)
8 Couch (4) 11 Decreases (7)
17 Rude and meanspirited person (5) 18 Metal pieces of
currency (5) 19 Woodworking tool
(5)
20 Divide into pieces
(3,2)
21 Thick piece of soft or absorbent material (3)
22 Meddle (6)
24 Prime Minister, 194551 (6)
25 Division of a baseball game in which one side gets to bat (6) 26 Small European
freshwater fish (4) 28 River which forms part of the EnglandWales border (3) 29 Narrow strip of land with sea on either side (7)
31 Makes lovable (7) 32 Bravery (7)
35 Subtly persuasive method of obtaining a buyer (4,4) 39 Alcoholic mixed
drink (8)
41 A million million (8) 44 At once (9) 45 Instances of being expelled from a property (9) 48 Shape into a curve
(4)
50 Devices that open
locks (4)
52 Item of cutlery (5) 53 Station in a remote or sparsely populated location
(7)
55 Gives on the basis of
merit (6)
56 Country on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea (6) 57 Cul-de-sac (4,3) 59 Past tense of will (5) 61 Expel large quantities of, rapidly and forcibly (4) 65 Amiss (4)
68 Dock worker (9) 69 Avoid making a decision to buy time (9) 71 Framework for holding wood to be cut (in the US) (8) 72 Particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity (8) 74 Fertilizer made from parts of a skeleton (8)
79 Things related or analogous to another (7)
81 Fetter (7)
83 One of Santa’s reindeers (7)
85 Crux (3)
87 First word of the song traditionally sung on 31st December (4) 88 Squeeze together tightly (6) 89 Necessitate (6) 90 Block (6)
94 Male name (3) 95 Charges set by (and funding) government (5)
96 Sweet cake or tart
(5)
97 Capital of Vietnam
(5)
98 Round structure formed inside the shell of an oyster (5) 99 Single payment, as opposed to instalments (4,3)
100 Wish harm or put a
curse upon (4)
101 Astonish (4)
102 Animal that supports
a parasite (4)
103 Alcoholic drink brewed from malt
(4)
DOWN
1 It is used to serve an olive, cherry, etc. (8,5) 2 Connoisseur of good food (7)
4 Scottish lake (4) 5 Letters adopted as books of the New Testament (8) 6 Moved busily about (7)
7 US drink distilled from cider (9)
9 Of the sea (7) 10 Makes more noticeable or prominent (11) 11 Satisfy fully (4)
12 Over and over again (10)
13 Male relative (6) 14 Calmly (8)
15 Sheet of floating ice (4)
16 Fatal virus transmitted from animals to humans (6)
23 Bring out of sleep (5) 27 Women (6)
30 Item worn on the
head (3) 33 Understand
incorrectly (12) 34 Curved or rounded projection or division (4)
36 Smelling stale, damp,
or stuffy (5) 37 Remain (4) 38 Became illuminated
(3,2)
40 Member of a branch of a state’s administration (5,7) 42 Exclamation indicating surprise (dated) (2,4)
43 States further (4) 46 Filled with people (7) 47 Prefix indicating a new or revived form (3)
48 Loud, harsh cries of
a donkey or mule (5)
Glorify (4)
Variety of cabbage (5)
Break with a sharp sound (4)
Soldiers sent out ahead so as to gather information (6)
Lacking excess fat
(4)
Product of human creativity (3) Intermediate or transitional place or state (5)
One of the Deadly Sins (5)
One who engages in political or commercial scheming (7-6) Arrive or appear or occur (4)
Basic monetary unit of Iran (4)
Get muscles ready for exercise (4,2) Requiring detailed and specific knowledge or training (11)
Sweets made of or covered in a substance made from cacao seeds (10)
73 Clear expression of something in speech or writing (9) 75 Nostrils (5) 76 Humankind (3) 77 Building with vanes
that turn (8)
78 Outer part of a
flower (8)
80 Sacred place (7) 81 Desert in northern
Africa (6)
82 Room equipped for
preparing meals (7) 84 Estimate the similarity or dissimilarity between (7)
86 American showman associated with The Greatest Show on Earth (6)
91 Error in text in
printed matter (4) 92 Test (4)
93 Fleshy parts of the
mouth (4) 49 51
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