GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines (13) 6 Wander about
aimlessly (4) 8 Fungal rot (6) 13 Name of the only
English pope (6) 14 Fleshy filament growing from the mouth of a fish (6) 15 Competitors who
finish second (7-2) 18 Attempts (5) 19 Over-familiar
through overuse (5) 20 Rotating mass of
water (9)
22 Finely powdered
tobacco (5)
23 Move like a
pendulum (5) 24 Olfactory organ (4) 27 Light (4)
31 Type of woodwind
instrument (4) 32 Pointed tools for
piercing holes (4) 37 One of a class of lustful rural Roman gods (4)
38 In a state of alertness or excitement (5) 39 Split pulses dish (4) 40 Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy (6)
42 Touched or caressed with the lips (6)
43 Military land force
(4)
44 Take with the intention of returning (6)
45 Go over again for
emphasis (9) 49 Breathe out (6) 50 Avoid (5)
52 Country in the
South Pacific (4) 55 Nautical call (4) 56 Smells (5) 58 Short-sighted (6) 62 State (9) 65 Attractively oldfashioned (6) 66 Large toothed
whale with black-and-white markings (4) 67 Plotted (6) 68 Gesture of respect and recognition (6) 70 Polynesian garlands of flowers (4)
71 Annoy (5) 72 Regulation (4) 74 Type of board game (4)
76 Muslim who has been to Mecca as a pilgrim (4)
79 Person regarded as worthy of veneration (4) 81 Hair growing from the neck of a horse (4)
85 Makes a complaining noise (5) 90 Place down heavily
(5)
91 Metalworkers (9) 93 Heavy-bodied ale
(5)
94 Really (5) 95 Original inhabitant
of a country (9) 96 Delay or hold back
(6)
97 Central American
country (6) 98 Verse form consisting of 14 lines (6)
99 Unravel or become worn at the edge (4)
100 Additional (13)
DOWN
1 Social gatherings (7)
2 Stops sleeping (6) 3 Tympanum (7) 4 Prevent from acting freely (3,2)
5 Faint (6) 6 Disagreements (33)
7 Craft kept buoyant by a body of gas (7) 9 Feeling of intense dislike (8) 10 Plagiarize (3,3) 11 Area of London which includes the Docklands (4,3) 12 Plant cultivated as a source of dark blue dye (6)
16 Avoid because of antipathy or caution (4)
17 Stiff bristle growing from the ear of barley (3) 21 Old-fashioned
(3-2-4)
25 Apiece (4) 26 Wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect (4) 28 Regarded with respect or warm approval (7) 29 Science of the nature and properties of matter and energy (7)
30 Person employed to do occasional repairs (8)
33 Game using balls of
coloured glass (7) 34 Collected as a
reserve supply (6) 35 Lash (4) 36 Showiness (11)
Impossible to deny (11)
41 Nickname of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower (3) 46 Sully (5)
47 Building covering
(4)
48 Minimum (5) 51 Lifeless (4) 53 Removed all the
contents of (7) 54 Not black-andwhite (8)
57 Tremble with cold
(6)
59 Slow-moving lizard with a prehensile tail (9)
60 Capital of Libya (7) 61 Fast musical
movement (7) 63 Mountain in Crete associated with Zeus (3)
64 Bucket (4) 68 Spiritual part of a
person (4) 69 Weaving machine
(4)
73 Have the reverse of the desired or expected effect (8) 75 Principal attendant of a bridegroom (4,3)
77 Weaken or damage
(6)
78 Arrogance (7) 80 Prevailing meteorological conditions (7) 82 Deviation from the
norm or rule (7) 83 They are fish of the
herring family (6) 84 Fair (2-2)
86 Move with short
quick steps (6) 87 Fashions (6) 88 Suffix denoting an
approximation (3) 89 Capital of
Kazakhstan (6) 92 Kip (5) 40