GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

13 Act in a dreamily infatuated manner (4)

14 Less common (5) 15 Found by

investigation (6) 16 Unit organised for a

particular job (4,5) 18 Having no knowledge, understanding or ability (8)

19 Blood feud (8) 20 State of having no protection from something harmful (8)

23 Posh affirmative

reply (3)

25 State capital of

Montana (6) 26 Handwritten

document (10) 29 State in northeastern India (5)

34 Money (4) 35 Analyse (a string or text) into logical syntactic components (5) 36 Lies, sits, or stands in a relaxed or lazy way (7)

37 Greek poet, author

of the Odyssey (5) 39 State capital of

Louisiana (5,5) 41 One who sells socks, stockings, tights, etc. (6) 42 Physicist who formulated the theory of relativity (8)

44 Wobbly desserts (7) 46 Lays an egg (9) 48 Posts in fences (5) 50 Type of milk (3) 53 Collaboration (11) 54 Feeling uneasy and

self-conscious (11) 58 Having undesirable

qualities (3) 59 Shafts sunk into the ground to obtain water (5)

60 Feeling (9)

62 More strange or

eccentric (7) 66 Plotting (8) 68 Alleviation (6) 70 Decorations (10) 73 Sharp mountain

ridge (5)

74 Small southern African mongoose (7)

75 Person of conspicuous wealth or high status (5) 77 Capital of

Azerbaijan (4) 79 Exorbitant (5) 81 Mountainous republic in the Balkans (10) 83 Sachet used to make a hot beverage (6) 85 Period during which a room or property is rented (3)

88 Fragrant (8) 91 Produced and discharged from a gland (8) 93 Wisdom (8)

96 Fine branching

blood vessel (9) 97 Travel along at a

leisurely pace (6) 98 One who eats no animal products at all (5)

99 Throws in a high

arc (4)

DOWN

1 Lower part of a person’s cheek (4) 2 Single (5)

3 Turns to ice (7) 4 Surname of an eponymous character created by Daniel Defoe (6) 5 Part of a monarch’s regalia (3) 6 Rill (9)

7 Place where plants are cultivated (6) 8 Green in heraldry (4)

9 Spice made from the covering of the nutmeg seed (4) 10 Omits (5) 11 Seedcases (4) 12 Convert into cash (6)

17 Another term for smoky quartz, named after a mountain range in Scotland (9) 21 Exclamations expressing hesitations or pauses in speech (3)

22 Den (4) 24 Improvised (2-6) 27 Person from a country on the Arabian peninsula (5)

28 Mixture of a soft and malleable consistency (5) 30 One said to be descended from Noah’s son Shem (6)

31 Hermetic (8)

32 Cry of an owl (4) 33 Violent weather

conditions (13)

35 A high school’s end-of-year formal dance (4)

36 Large tawnycoloured cats that lives in prides (5) 38 Numbed (13) 40 Freely transfers

possession of (5) 43 Join the ends of (6) 45 Unauthorised (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information (4) 47 Fruit eaten as a

vegetable (6) 49 Chocolate bar with

a bubbly texture (4) 51 Decide or determine correctly or with certainty (4) 52 Highest point (4) 55 Audibly (5) 56 Diagram used to show relative magnitudes of a value (3,5)

57 Allay the doubts

and fears of (8) 61 Article of bed linen

(5)

63 Tranquil (6) 64 Clergywoman (9) 65 Seize suddenly or

roughly (4)

67 Soup thickened

with okra pods (5) 69 Compare (5) 71 Smaller than

average tide (4) 72 Brought to light (9) 76 Spa town on the

River Avon (4) 78 Barking in a highpitched tone (7) 79 Seize quickly and

deftly (6)

80 Not harming the

environment (3) 82 Visitors (6)

84 Allot (6)

86 Old (5)

87 Type of stringed

instrument (5) 89 Post (4) 90 Horse-drawn

vehicle (4)

92 Chill (4)

94 The largest island in

the West Indies (4) 95 Evergreen plant associated with Christmas (3)