GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Restrains or keeps
in check (5) 3 Ringing or buzzing
in the ears (8) 7 Legal rules (4) 9 Throw forcefully (4) 12 Edible fungal
growths (9) 14 Doomed person or
thing (5) 15 Responses (9) 17 Relating to sheep
(5)
18 Small horse breed
(4)
19 Beat (4)
21 Gets better (5) 24 Parallel of latitude about 23.5 degrees north of the equator (6) 27 Steals (5)
29 Hangs around (5) 32 Bug (4)
33 Young nocturnal
bird (5)
35 Wager (3)
37 Puts up with something unpleasant (8) 40 Burden (4)
41 Grow weary (4) 43 Shields worn to protect body parts (4)
45 Unit of weight for
precious stones (5) 46 Solicit votes in an electoral campaign (7)
47 Mammal related to
the llama (6)
51 In poor health (6) 54 Rare earth element
(7)
57 Starched frill characteristic of Elizabethan costume (4) 59 Amorphous shape
(4)
60 Blinks (7)
63 Me personally (6) 65 Volcanic rock (6) 68 Capital of Thailand
(7)
70 Gracious (5) 73 Plant with fronds
(4)
74 Belonging to us (4) 75 Form into a curved
or spiral shape (4) 76 Showing good aesthetic judgement (8) 79 Wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation (3) 80 Fundamental (5) 81 Two-toed sloth (4) 82 Alcoholic drink (5) 87 From that time (5) 88 Grub (6)
90 Slyly disparaging (5) 91 Superficial or
unthoughtful (4) 93 Drinking vessels (4) 95 Affectionate word for brother (in the US) (5)
96 The theoretical or practical understanding of a subject (9) 97 Adhering to ethical
principles (5) 98 Decorates (9) 99 Knob-like growths which develop into flowers (4)
100 It connects the tibia and fibula with the femur (4)
101 Causes of boredom or disgust
(informal) (4-4)
102 Periods of time (5)
DOWN
1 Nation occupying a territory (7) 2 Russian breed of large wolfhound (6) 4 Establishes the identity of (3)
5 The pocketing of the cue ball after it hitting another (2-3) 6 Bad mood (informal) (5)
7 Areas which have suffered damage through injury or disease (7)
8 Cable (4)
9 Hired assassin (6) 10 Row of people, things or printed words (4)
11 Routes (5)
13 Wander aimlessly (5) 16 Device used to provide stability (4) 20 Gentle swinging rhythm in a song (4) 22 Class of compounds that includes hormones and vitamins (7) 23 Not arranged tidily ready for sleeping in (6) 25 Soft pads for applying a cosmetic to the skin (6,5) 26 Acceptability among fashionable young urban people (4)
28 Closing section of a musical composition (4) 30 Friends (4) 31 Information storage devices for computers (5) 34 Type of very thin
crack (8) 35 Christen (7)
36 Oral examination
(4)
38 Substantive (5) 39 Slender nocturnal mammal with well-developed anal scent glands (5) 42 Son of Daedalus (6) 44 Gone down below
the surface (4) 48 Conspicuously displaying (a design) on something (11) 49 Taunt (4)
50 Very small bird (4) 52 Affectedly modest (3) 53 Cleaning solution of potassium hydroxide (3) 55 Bothers (8) 56 Eraser (6)
58 Small German monetary unit prior to the Euro (7) 61 Upper levels (5) 62 Reproductive unit of
a fungus (5) 64 France’s national state-owned railway company (4) 66 Prefix denoting a factor of 10 to the power of 12 (4) 67 People or things likely to cause damage or danger (7) 69 Following (5) 71 Supernatural forces
(6)
72 Greek spirit (4) 77 Duplicate (4) 78 Agricultural
establishment (4) 79 Mountainous island
of Indonesia (4) 82 Long-winded (7) 83 Ram or pack down
firmly (4) 84 Principle laid down as incontrovertibly true (5)
85 Feels curious (7) 86 Open areas that make up a 78 Down (6)
87 Causes to go
somewhere (5) 89 Recommendation (6) 91 Complete extent or
range (5) 92 Muscular strength (5) 94 Person who looks
down on others (4) 95 Capital of
Switzerland (4) 98 Format that supports both animated and static images (3)