GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Stories (5)
12 Card game that uses a board and pegs (8)
13 Vicinity (13) 16 Around (5)
17 In a disorderly haste or confusion (6-7)
18 Country in SE
Europe (6) 19 Playthings (4) 21 Having no predetermined limit or boundary (4-5) 24 Almost (6) 25 Wealthy (4) 27 Removed from
office (6) 28 Woman’s garment
(6)
30 Strong feeling or
emotion (7) 31 Publicly denounce
(5)
33 Rotate (4)
36 Deep vascular inner
layer of the skin (6) 37 Viscous liquid
condiment (5) 39 Vagrant (in the US)
(4)
40 Leave for residence in another country (8)
44 Religion of Muslims
(5)
45 Carrier for holding luggage on top of a car (4,4) 47 Something that is usual, typical, or standard (4) 48 Steal from (a place)
(7)
50 Negative electrode
(7)
51 Department stores
(7)
56 Plastic sack containing potting compost (7)
57 Word said to frighten or drive away (4)
60 Name of one of the
Magi, represented as a king of Nubia (8)
62 Expiring (5)
64 Code of correct conduct (8) 65 Minute arachnid (4) 66 Emblem worn to show membership, rank, name, etc. (5) 67 Cowardly (6) 68 Speech defect (4) 69 Radioactive gas (5) 70 In a ship or plane (2,5)
71 Go without food (6) 74 The personification of sleep in Greek mythology (6) 77 Address used for female royalty (4) 78 Promotional item in the media (6) 79 Cooked by submerging in hot oil (4-5)
83 Edible starch obtained from a palm (4) 85 Involving or constituting a thing that brings about an effect (6) 86 Maintenance fee on a property (7,6) 89 Lemur of Madagascar (5) 90 Roadside eatery (9,4)
91 Renounce one’s throne (8)
92 Violent weather condition (5)
DOWN
1 Uncommunicative (8)
2 Truck (5) 3 Fraudulent scheme (4)
4 Pastry dish (3) 5 Strong pull towards a particular vocation (7) 6 Immoral or corrupt person (10)
7 Grind (one’s teeth) together (5) 8 Magnitudes (5) 9 Deluge (7)
10 One who lives by plunder (7)
11 Solid figures with twelve plane faces (13)
14 Strikes (4) 15 Thing that reduces
speed (11) 17 Searches (5) 20 Frightens (6) 22 Branch of
mathematics (12) 23 Line on a map connecting points of equal height (7) 26 Type of nuclear
weapon (1-4) 29 Ornamental
shoulder piece (9) 32 Musical composition made up of a series of songs (6)
34 Part that connects
a body to a head (4) 35 Metal fasteners (4) 38 Engraving or
carving in relief (5) 41 Nick (5) 42 Overpoweringly
tempting (12) 43 Below average in amount, extent, or intensity (3) 46 Coaches (9)
49 Not close-fitting (5) 52 City of NE Italy (5) 53 Exclamation indicating a blow has occurred (3) 54 Noisy quarrel (6) 55 Arousing debate or
disagreement (13) 58 Fixed (of a rule)
(4,3,4)
59 Cavities enclosed by
membranes (4) 60 American shopping
centre (4)
61 Write (7)
63 Group of female animals sharing a single mate (5) 66 Town on the Wirral
Peninsula (10) 67 Point where converging sides meet (6)
72 Curt (5) 73 Obstruction of an
artery (8) 74 Hairdresser (7) 75 Expedition into
space (7)
76 Improve to a higher
standard (7)
80 Very dry (of
sparkling wine) (4) 81 City in northern
Italy (5) 82 Three-masted Mediterranean sailing ship (5) 84 Sound part of a
transmission (5) 87 Pastry dishes (4) 88 Anatomical vessel
(3)