GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Part of the perianth
of a flower (5)
3 Turn to bone (6) 8 First appearance
(5)
13 Engine (5)
14 Open the locking mechanism (on a gate) (5)
15 The fourth-largest of the Great Lakes (4)
16 Decapod
crustacean (4) 18 They deliver letters
(7)
20 Classical portico (4) 21 Thicket (5) 25 Meanings (11) 27 Egyptian goddess
of fertility (4) 28 Dog-like (6) 29 Anything at all
(archaic) (5) 30 Small fragment of
bread (5)
32 Of lesser rank or
quality (8) 34 Garments made of animal skin with hair on (4) 37 Fatuous (5) 39 Independent kingdom on the slopes of the Himalayas (6) 41 Talks on religious
subjects (7)
44 Label (3)
45 National Park in SW
England (6) 46 Paper container for
a letter (8) 47 Collections of things that belong together (4)
49 The Emerald Isle (7) 51 Swelling from excessive accumulation of fluid in tissue (6) 53 It is used to specify the hour in telling the time (6) 57 Object that is struck with a wooden rod in snooker (3,4) 58 Pavement edge (4) 60 Pub (8)
61 Deep and hoarse (6)
62 Partly digested food that is re-chewed by ruminants (3) 63 Badly behaved (7) 66 Feels a powerful desire for (6)
68 It replaced Lagos as Nigeria’s capital in 1991 (5) 69 Broadcasts (4) 70 Site of Yale University (3,5) 72 Traditional Navajo Indian hut of logs and earth (5) 76 Largest moon of Saturn (5) 77 Indicate (6) 78 Type of cheese (4) 79 Approximate
calculations (11) 80 Gives on the understanding that it will be returned (5)
82 River deposit (4) 84 African river which flows into the Indian Ocean (7) 87 Taxis (4)
88 Emblem of a
country (4) 90 Landmasses surrounded by water (5)
91 Humble (5) 92 Italian composer
(5)
93 Pungent seasoning
(6) 94 Encourage to put more effort into an activity (3,2)
DOWN
1 Energy or vitality (3) 2 Awful (9)
4 Long narrow opening (4)
5 Run away (4)
6 Area of central London (4)
7 The state of having, owning, or controlling something (10)
9 Dig up (8)
10 Not absorbed or integrated into a wider culture (13) 11 Feeds on (4)
12 Exact copy (7) 17 Collection of valuable or delightful things (8,5)
19 Even so (5)
21 Open space in a forest (8) 22 Booklet giving details of items or performers at an event (9) 23 Removes all the contents of (7) 24 Showing resolute determination and strength of character (4) 26 Clean with a stiff brush (5) 31 Acrimonious (6) 33 Marked by a vague unworldliness (3)
Watered with a pipe (5)
36 Reserved (9) 38 Study of plants (6) 40 Male red deers (5) 42 Piece of fabric worn to conceal the face (4)
43 Hidden (9)
48 No longer using
nappies (6-7) 50 Unborn vertebrate
(6)
52 Pointed front part
of a ship (4) 54 Repeated series of
events (5)
55 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (3,3,7)
56 Disengage (something) and remove it (6)
57 One who doubts things will happen as they should (5) 59 Action of making something smaller (9)
62 Official routes of
communication (8) 64 Good-for-nothing
person (7) 65 Retrovirus which
causes AIDS (3) 66 Way in which something is usually done (10) 67 Form (5)
69 Settle a dispute
impartially (9) 71 Obtained or
retrieved (8)
73 SI units of electrical
resistance (4) 74 Ingrained dirt (5) 75 Make
comprehensible (7) 81 Formerly (archaic)
(4)
83 Scottish word for a
promontory (4) 85 Fever with chills
and sweats (4) 86 Short, high-pitched
electronic sound (4) 89 Affirmative reply (3) 35