GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
13 Minute opening in the surface of the skin (4)
14 Bear (5)
15 Scopes (6) 16 Fast-paced ballroom dance (4,5) 18 Non-vegetarian dish cooked slowly in liquid (4,4) 19 Coffee brewed by forcing steam through powdered beans (8)
20 Capital of Malawi
(8)
23 Object (3)
25 Poor devil (6)
26 City and port in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi (3,7) 29 Stinging insects (5) 34 Roll up (4)
35 Deep ravine (5) 36 Not simple (7) 37 Device that measures duration (5) 39 Transportation
boxes (10)
41 Partially dried
grape (6) 42 Emblem of the German Nazi Party (8)
44 Degree of
compactness (7) 46 Self-service
restaurant (9) 48 Part of the leg (5) 50 Button on a computer keyboard (3)
53 Container holding objects typical of the present time, buried for discovery in the future (4,7) 54 Act of determining the answer to an arithmetical expression (11) 58 Implement used to strike balls in games (3)
59 Short (5) 60 Coloured cosmetic powder used on the face (9)
62 Player in cricket (7) 66 Leftover (8) 68 Gained (6)
70 As far as one knows
(10)
73 Lugged (5)
74 Funny (7)
75 Pungent (5)
77 Most important
point (4)
79 Hellenic language
(5)
81 One who studies celestial objects and the universe (10)
83 Tropical fruits with yellow skins and pink pulps (6) 85 Traditional flavour enhancer used in oriental cooking (3) 88 Large arboreal boa
(8)
91 Midsummer or
midwinter (8) 93 Condition of having assets in excess of liabilities (8) 96 Man-made (9) 97 Bounds (6)
98 Do something considered beneath one’s dignity (5) 99 Short interjected phrase in a pop song (4)
DOWN
1 Region (4)
2 Holes for the escape of gas or air (5)
3 Set of swivelling wheels (7) 4 Simpleton (6) 5 Low-lying wet land (3)
6 Gave or awarded formally or ceremonially (9) 7 Patron saint of Scotland (6) 8 Supporting limbs
(4)
9 Cry noisily (4) 10 Pus-filled swellings (5)
11 Trimmed (grass) with a machine (4) 12 Well-known people in entertainment or sport (informal) (6) 17 Singing in a style associated with the Swiss and Austrian Alps (9)
21 Talk idly (3)
22 Sound of something rotating (4) 24 Contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms (8) 27 Hind parts (5) 28 Cancels (in the US) (5)
30 Lets in (6)
31 Small, slender, longtailed parrot (8) 32 Pieces of grain husk separated from flour after milling
(4) 33 Expressionless or showing a serious expression (8-5) 35 Type of percussion instrument (4) 36 Have a strong or urgent desire for (5) 38 Places where armed conflict occurs (13) 40 Routes for vehicles (5)
43 In actual fact (6) 45 Natural protective covering of the body (4)
47 To a certain extent
(2,1,3)
49 Large, ungainly
person or thing (4) 51 Arrived (4) 52 Chinese religious
statue (4) 55 Inflammation of the larynx and trachea in children (5) 56 Animal that has a propensity for killing humans for food (3-5)
57 Voice boxes (8) 61 Enchantment (5) 63 Beneficial or commendable quality (6) 64 Hypnotic therapeutic system (9)
65 Spoken (4)
67 Is without (5) 69 Toxic protein that can be used as a bioweapon (5) 71 Tropical plant with edible corms and leaves (4)
72 The whole of a complex structure (9)
76 Fury (4)
78 Pulling with effort
(7)
79 Port city of
northern Poland (6) 80 When something is expected to reach its destination (3) 82 Grid-like array of
elements (6) 84 Descend a nearvertical surface with a rope (6) 86 Facial expression of contempt or scorn (5)
87 Worship or regard
as a god (5) 89 Andrew Lloyd
Webber musical (4) 90 LSD (4)
92 Jointed appendage
of an animal (4) 94 Slaughter in order to reduce a population (4) 95 They store and play digital audio recordings (3)