GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Price (4)
3 Steady continuous
stream (4)
6 Group of fanatical
followers (4) 8 Numerical or alphabetical award given to a piece of school work (4) 11 10,000 square
metres (7)
17 Small jazz, rock or
pop band (5) 18 Sweetly and softly
in music (5) 19 Creature (5) 20 Norwegian dramatist and poet (5)
21 Polynesian garland
of flowers (3) 22 Fairly and equally
(6)
24 Male toilet (6) 25 Talks (6)
26 Mild expression of surprise or annoyance (US) (4) 28 Wife of Argentine President Juan Peron (3)
29 Person thought to be guilty of a crime (7)
31 Put to practical use
(7)
32 Box containing loose granular substance to play in (7)
35 Competition between nations to have the most powerful weapons (4,4)
39 Sound of enjoyment
(8)
41 Pizzas that are folded in half before cooking (8) 44 Thorough or
rigorous (9) 45 Study of the physical properties of sound (9) 48 Bundles or rolls of paper or banknotes (4)
50 Title given formally
to a baron (4) 52 Lose blood from the
body (5)
53 City in SE Texas (7) 55 Agency of the
United Nations which promotes child welfare (6) 56 Lingo (6) 57 Sheikhdom consisting of a group of islands in the Persian Gulf (7) 59 Small farm (5) 61 Parts on which an animal or object stands (4)
65 Attic (4) 68 Something a manual car has but an automatic car doesn’t (4,5) 69 Attire for an
astronaut (5,4) 71 Enjoyment (8) 72 Maintains (tissue cells) in conditions suitable for growth (8)
74 Choosing to abstain
from alcohol (8) 79 Is contingent (7) 81 Light sweet roll (7) 83 Program designed to simulate conversation with human users (7) 85 Illuminated (3) 87 One of two equal
parts (4) 88 Rarefied gaseous envelope of a star (6)
89 Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament (6)
90 Form by carving (6) 94 Number of deadly sins expressed in Roman numerals (3)
95 Melancholy style of
music (5) 96 Shelf-like beds (5) 97 Composed (5) 98 Rapid rotation
movement (5) 99 Reversal in
progress (7)
100 Magnitude (4)
101 Web page which is regularly updated with news and opinions (4)
102 One as well as the
other (4)
103 Turn a clockwork
key repeatedly (4)
DOWN
1 Silky-coated dog breed (6,7) 2 Warmest seasons (7)
4 Woman (4) 5 Knowledgeable (via books) (4-4)
6 Make tidy (5,2) 7 Assigning to a category (9) 9 Female thespian (7) 10 Small assorted trinkets (5-6) 11 Chaff (4)
12 Link (10)
13 Burning fiercely (6) 14 Envoy (8)
15 Enquiry into public opinion (4)
16 Gone by (6)
23 Plant also called Adam’s needle (5) 27 Twin brother of Artemis (6)
30 Step in classical ballet (3)
33 Person who manages a dining establishment (12) 34 Prefix denoting a factor of one million (4)
36 Measuring device (5)
37 Area for skating (4) 38 Refrigerate (5) 40 Discourteous and
ungallant (12) 42 Spanish monetary unit prior to the euro (6)
43 I very much doubt it
(2,2)
46 Make mentally
unbalanced (7) 47 Wound made by something sharp (3)
48 Slight trace of
odour (5)
49 Baggy centre of a fishing net or a sail (4)
51 Numeral (5) 52 Osseous (4) 54 Surging forward
flow (6) 56 Gregorian calendar
month (4)
58 Go quickly (archaic)
(3)
60 Distress signal (5) 62 Break out suddenly
(5)
63 Chattered (6-7) 64 Cried (4)
66 Movie (4)
67 Heavy dull sounds made on impacts (6)
68 Glass structures (11) 70 Large branched
candlestick (10) 73 Global (9) 75 Characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community (5) 76 Excessive or
exaggerated (3) 77 Thinks (8) 78 Extensive loss of life for a particular cause (8) 80 Entertainment
industry (4,3) 81 Muscular (6) 82 Gossip (4-3) 84 Italian composer of
operas (7)
86 Quality of using money carefully and not wastefully (6)
91 Female bovines (4) 92 Disc used in ice
hockey (4)
93 Great enthusiasm
and energy (4)