GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Exaggerated
masculinity (8) 5 Place where mislaid articles can be reclaimed (4,8) 13 When day and night are of equal length (7)
14 Town on the south coast of England (10)
15 Gorgon killed by
Perseus (6)
16 Show excessive
affection (4) 19 Brought from wildness into a domesticated state (5)
22 Antenna (6) 23 Running
continuously (9) 26 Christmas (4) 29 Tree trunk (4) 31 Short, witty remark
(3-5)
32 Faux-pas (5)
34 Held within (9) 36 Most excellent (4) 37 Endless, not even affected by mortality (7)
40 They are the first to
do something (8) 43 Newspaper that is
not a broadsheet (7) 45 Scatter among
other things (11) 47 Large shallow dish
(7)
49 Booking for
musicians (3) 50 Large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna (5) 51 Mollycoddler (8) 53 Slightly drunk (5) 56 Not having been
given food (5) 57 Formal evening
dress (5,3) 59 Alphabetical listing
of contents (5) 60 Pan used in Chinese
cookery (3)
61 Ships or boats (7) 64 Subdivision for
storage (11)
66 Ill at ease (7) 67 Those who travel
to come to see someone or something (8) 69 Lists of items to be discussed at meetings (7)
71 The name of two queens of England (4)
72 Clock (9) 74 Thighbone (5) 76 Taking out (8) 77 Unit of subjective loudness (4) 78 Prudent (4) 81 Promoting fair competition in business (9) 85 Expression used as an emphatic expression of denial or refusal (informal) (2,4)
86 Minute black winged insect which sucks plant sap (5)
90 Water basin (4) 93 Go about in search
of things to raid (6) 94 Property (in the US)
(4,6) 95 Diagrammatic representation for motorists (4,3) 96 Small items used in
sewing (12)
97 Cattle farm worker in the southwestern US and Mexico (8)
DOWN
1 State of mind (4) 2 Informal talk (4) 3 Organising lighting and other technical elements of a play (5-8) 4 Opening that permits escape or release (6)
5 Appear (4)
6 Caress (6)
7 Looks quickly and furtively (5) 8 Abalone found in the Channel Islands (5)
9 Inspiring affection (9)
10 Long (5)
11 Terse (4)
12 Part of a skeleton (4)
17 Someone who is in their 80s (12) 18 Change which is a result or consequence of an action (6)
20 Tube of material for keeping hands warm (4)
21 Drug in order to enhance performance (4) 24 Bluefin (5) 25 Become covered or blocked with frozen water (3,2)
27 Award given for national or regional achievements (3) 28 Landlocked republic in eastern Africa (6) 30 Importance (12) 33 Comedy characterised by buffoonery and improbable situations (5) 35 British peer of the
highest rank (4) 38 Vanished (11)
Third portion of the small intestine (5) 41 Contaminated (6) 42 Changes the position and outlook of (12) 44 Drunk (informal) (7) 46 Industrial city in southern Siberian Russia (5)
48 Item of cheap
showy jewellery (7) 52 Fractional
monetary units (5) 54 Underground (12) 55 Exploiter (6) 58 Conical tent (5) 60 Worn by exposure to the elements (76)
62 Expel and bar from one’s native country (5)
63 Comes in (6)
65 The majority of (4) 68 Perspire (5) 69 Complete change
of opinion (5-4) 70 Things that are not possible or acceptable (2-3) 71 Used as a title to refer formally to more than one man simultaneously (6) 73 Condition involving abdominal pain and diarrhoea or constipation (3) 74 Building made to be able to protect against attack (4) 75 Tract of open uncultivated upland (4)
79 Unlearned (6) 80 Text appearing at the very bottom of each page (6) 82 Minor nature
goddess (5) 83 Reversed (5) 84 Stated conditions
(5)
87 Foot of an ungulate
(4)
88 Type of wildcat (4) 89 Charge (4)
91 The name of two kings of Norway and two kings of Sweden (4) 92 Japanese zither (4) 39