GIANT CROSSWORD
SATURDAY, JANUARY 20
ACROSS
1 Defrosts (5) 3 Monument to the
dead (8)
7 Basket for garden
produce (4) 9 Explosive device (4) 12 Single (9)
14 Alloy containing
iron (5)
15 Powder puff
material (9) 17 Coach (5)
18 Tartan skirt (4) 19 Curving trajectories
(4)
21 Ligneous plants (5) 24 Book of financial
accounts (6) 27 Unravels at the
edge (5)
29 Wander from a direct or straight course (5)
32 Front of the head
(4)
33 Cut of meat (5) 35 Type of deciduous
tree (3)
37 Country whose capital is Phnom Penh (8)
40 Slender (4)
41 Give cautionary
advice (4) 43 Destroy (4) 45 Exclusively (5) 46 They have a female donkey and a male horse as parents (7) 47 Follows logically (6) 51 Period of the year
(6)
54 Pig-like (7) 57 Cod-like fish (4) 59 Person from the northernmost country in the UK (4)
60 Most important (7) 63 Talk to in a bullying
way (6) 65 Wanderers (6) 68 Idealist (7) 70 Groom’s partner (5) 73 British peer ranking above a viscount and below a marquess (4) 74 Frozen desserts (4) 75 Country in the
Middle East (4) 76 Legally taking (another’s child) and bringing it up as one’s own (8) 79 Sleeve of a garment
(3)
80 Shrewd (5)
81 Edible fruit of a type
of palm tree (4) 82 Even (5)
87 Large number in
succession (5) 88 Type of cream cake
(6)
90 Luxuriously elegant
(5)
91 Prejudice (4) 93 Prong (4)
95 Room used as a hot-air or steam bath (5)
96 Morally correct
behaviour (9) 97 Himalayan country
(5)
98 Not concerned with
material values (9) 99 Excessively quaint
(4)
100 Naps (4)
101 Rotating a threaded
fastener (8)
102 Employing (5)
DOWN
1 Slender tower on a mosque (7) 2 Marine reptile (6) 4 Cease (3)
5 Brightly coloured tropical fish (5) 6 Brings to an abrupt stop (5)
7 Bear witness (7) 8 Federation of 15 republics which was dissolved in 1991 (4)
9 Strikes hard and violently (6) 10 Weapons for shooting arrows (4) 11 Flat buoyant structures (5) 13 Looking closely at (5)
16 Mount which is the most active volcano in Europe (4) 20 Area of redness and spots (4) 22 Small onion-like vegetable (7) 23 Heat units (6) 25 Widespread Increase in a particular opinion (11)
26 Regular payment to a landlord (4) 28 Round tightlycurled hairstyle (4) 30 Father of Cain and
Abel (4)
31 Rub out (5)
34 Luge (8)
35 Side by side (7) 36 Cover with flat stones or bricks to make a walkway (4) 38 Small non-rigid
airship (5) 39 Person eating a
meal (5) 42 Continued for a
specified period (6) 44 Seizes (4) 48 Relating to the process of developing inside the womb (11) 49 Young children (4) 50 Demonstrate (4) 52 Second person singular present of the verb to be (3) 53 Type of cereal grain
(3)
55 Fuelled with a
viscous liquid (3-5) 56 Transparent portion of the outer covering of the eye (6)
58 Source of difficulty
(7)
61 Adult insect produced after metamorphosis (5) 62 Fantastic (5) 64 Hutch (4)
66 Stair (4)
67 Gossip (7)
69 Poised for action (5) 71 In a way that lacks discipline or restraint (6)
72 Stake in poker (4) 77 Code word representing the 16th letter of the alphabet (4) 78 Disturb or
disconcert (4) 79 Simple aquatic
plant (4)
82 Pea plants (7) 83 Accompanied by (4) 84 Make a garment
quickly (3,2) 85 Theory of the beginning of the universe (3,4) 86 Deliver a blow to (6) 87 Liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water (5) 89 Rare, unusual, or intriguing objects (6)
91 Tubs for washing in
(5)
92 Leather with a
napped surface (5) 94 Money (4)
95 Prefix meaning half
or partly (4)
98 Star at the centre of
our solar system (3)