GIANT CROSSWORD
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27
ACROSS
3 Freed (11)
9 Owned (9)
13 Low dam (4) 14 Standard number of strokes set for each golf hole (3) 16 Involving publicity to increase sales or public awareness (11)
17 Prison (4)
18 Track or scent of an
animal (5) 19 Boundaries (5) 22 Give temporarily (4) 23 Boot out (4)
25 Poke (4) 27 Particular positions or places where things occur (4) 29 Variety of cabbage
(4)
30 Turbine blade (4) 32 Pink fleshed fish (6) 33 Give up (power or
territory) (4) 35 Star-shaped
character (8) 36 Remained (6) 38 Sheet folded once
(5)
39 Mound or ridge of
sand (4)
43 Out of the sun (6) 46 Interpret something that is written (4) 47 Something widely known but never discussed publicly (4,6)
51 Pieces of apparatus for transporting things on the tops of vehicles (4,5) 52 Tiny pieces or spots
(6)
56 School organisation
(3)
57 Substance that induces insensitivity to pain (11)
58 Type of sweet baked food made of rich sponge (7,4) 59 Record or display of a person’s heartbeat (3) 61 Antelopes with
spiral horns (6) 65 Regions rich in liquid fuel deposits (9)
66 Feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness (10) 67 Handle of a sword
(4)
68 Go on board a craft
(6)
70 Armoured vehicle
(4)
71 Secret political
clique or faction (5) 73 Managed to acquire
or obtain (4,2) 75 Unlucky number (8) 81 Name of last of the Stuart monarchs
(4)
82 Commands (6) 84 Utter indistinctly (4) 85 Brood (4) 87 Drinking vessels (4) 88 Event (4) 90 Connecting point
(4)
91 Chief god of the Roman state religion (4) 93 Bumpkin (5) 97 Foodstuff which
wobbles (5) 99 Imperial unit of
length (4)
100 Reproduce rapidly
(11)
101 Hanging weight (3) 102 Ferric oxide (4)
103 Jealous (5-4)
104 Cajoled (5-6)
DOWN
1 Feeling or causing despair (8) 2 Draws (4)
4 Okays (8) 5 Supports which extend from side to side (5-5)
6 Not rich (4) 7 Journey (4) 8 Benefactor (5) 9 Stacked (5) 10 Trigonometric function (4) 11 Intellectual or emotional attitude (6)
12 Stupid person (4) 13 Slight line or fold in fabric or skin (7) 15 SI unit of electrical potential difference (4)
20 Aim (4) 21 Slumbered (5) 24 Instance of selling (4)
25 Chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number (8,5)
26 Major river port on the Trans-Siberian railway (4) 28 Young man (in
Wales) (4) 31 University student who has not yet received a first degree (13) 34 Talked about (9) 36 Twilled woollen
fabric (5)
37 By surprise (5) 40 Pick-up trucks (Australian informal) (4)
41 Law enforcer (6,7) 42 Vegetation used as
pasture (7) 44 Mammal that lives
in a form (4) 45 Dish out (8) 48 49 50
Layers of rock (6) Sweetheart (4,4) Rich, spicy fish stew or soup (13) Concerned with the actual doing of something rather than theory (9) Alter (6)
Meant or had as a result (7)
Platform on pillars projecting from the shore into the sea (4)
The longest river in France (5)
Bonkers (5)
Shortly (4)
Rum cocktail (4,6) Well ventilated (4) Fond of giving people orders (5) Porous rock composed of calcium carbonate (4)
Playing card with three spots (4) Patellar reflex (4,4) Temporary or supplementary fortification (7) 79 Gathering of teachers and pupils at the start of the day (8)
80 Soft, wet, pulpy
mass (4)
83 Brawn (6)
86 Cry querulously or
weakly (4)
88 Dealt effectively with something difficult (5)
89 Stage
performances (5) 92 Ringing sound (4) 94 Shaft on which a
wheel rotates (4) 95 Shoot (4) 96 Something that is
owed (4)
98 Of the person being
addressed (4)
53 54 55
60 62
63 64 69 72 74
75 76
77 78