GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Animals kept for companionship or pleasure (4) 4 Useless or tedious
printed material (4) 6 Emblem symbolising Judaism (4,2,5) 12 Strike with the fist
(5)
16 Having moderate
heat (4)
18 Toward the ocean
(7)
19 Grading (6)
20 Cloth border doubled back and stitched down (3) 21 Make something previously integrated distinct again (13)
23 Chap (6) 25 Sufficient (6)
27 In a troubled or
nervous way (10) 28 Conclude from evidence and reasoning (5) 29 Revealed (to the
public) (8)
30 Cash register (4) 31 Hospital attendant
(7)
34 Giving off an odour
(8)
40 Large African
antelopes (4) 41 Done or occurring at a favourable time (9)
42 Cheerless (4) 43 Small tube for draining off bodily fluids (7)
49 Mix together (7) 50 Less technical term for alexia or dyslexia (4,9) 52 Estimate made based on previous experience (8,5) 55 Subtle skill (7) 61 Crisp smooth
lustrous fabric (7) 62 Steady intent look
(4)
63 Unusual (9) 64 Violent person, especially a criminal (4) 65 Kidnapped (8) 69 Small brownish European songbird (7) 72 Knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast (4) 73 Energetic and unpredictable person (4,4) 75 Humorous (5) 76 Perceived the intended meaning of (10)
78 Marked or identified with a projecting piece of material (6) 80 Spend less (6) 82 They study insects
(13) 86 Move from side to side (3)
87 Cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful (6)
88 Loss of the ability to recognise things (7) 89 Knitting stitch (4) 90 Quantity produced (5)
91 Places where people have established communities (11) 92 Semi-aquatic salamander (4) 93 Part in a play (4)
DOWN
2 They support the principle of equality for all (12) 3 Sleepwalker (12) 5 Newspapers, TV, Radio, etc. (4,5)
7 Call for people to raise their glasses in honour of a person (5) 8 Travelled on a horse (4)
9 Loud in music (5) 10 Large-calibre guns (9)
11 Canine animals (4) 12 Latent qualities that may be developed (9)
13 Hip-length tailored coat (5) 14 Exclamation used to express dissatisfaction (5) 15 Feline (3-4) 17 Country in Central America (2,8) 22 English composer of the Enigma Variations (5) 23 Healthy due to regular exercise (3) 24 Devious or cunning stratagems used to manipulate (5) 26 Environmentally friendly (5) 32 Squirrel’s den (4) 33 Device for receiving broadcast sound (5)
35 Device that performs a task (7) 36 Spectacles (7) 37 Hare’s den (4) 38 Band (6)
39 Larva (4)
44 Lowest point (5) 45 Turn on its head (5) 46 Beverage made
from meat (4,3) 47 Abrupt in manner
(5)
48 Pursue (5) 49 Reduce a corpse to
ashes (7)
51 Small stream (6) 53 Jokes (4)
54 Austere (5) 56 Amount of alcoholic drink that is gulped (4)
57 Queen and founder
of Carthage (4) 58 Supplies of food, drink, or equipment (10)
59 Line meant for the audience and not others on stage
(5,7)
60 Attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding (12) 66 Country whose official name since 1989 has been Union of Myanmar (5)
67 Systematically looked for and acquired (9) 68 Immerses briefly
into a liquid (5) 69 Most drab (9) 70 Hag (5)
71 Individual (used to express importance) (9) 74 Produced without the need for outsourcing (2-5) 77 Helpful hint (3)
78 Of a yellowishbrown colour (5) 79 Type of brass
instrument (5) 81 Minute two-winged
fly (5)
83 Group of nine (5) 84 Cooking containers
(4)
85 Contest of speed (4)