GIANT CROSSWORD
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
ACROSS
1 Midday (4)
3 Notice of death in a newspaper (informal) (4) 6 British writer of many popular children’s books, Roald (4)
8 Inflamed sebaceous
glands (4)
11 Live-in domestic helpers from abroad (2,5)
17 Scandinavian goddess of love and the night (5) 18 Mouse-like mammal
(5)
19 Units used to
measure land (5) 20 Dim, dull, or filmy
(archaic) (5) 21 Clothes for sleeping
in (abrv.) (3) 22 Wirelesses (6) 24 Rough, knotty
protuberances (6) 25 Intrepidly (6)
26 Look in a lascivious
way (4)
28 Principle underlying the universe in Chinese philosophy (3)
29 Vigorous kind of foxtrot in duple time (3-4)
31 Uses (7)
32 Small quantity of
liquid (7)
35 Afflicted (8)
39 Site of Napoleon’s
defeat (8)
41 Hats, helmets, etc.
(8)
44 Deport (9)
45 Sound of a person
walking (9)
48 Alone (4)
50 Protein derived from the beans of a peafamily plant (4) 52 Expression of contempt or impatience (5) 53 Precisely (7)
55 Come (6)
56 Mentally infirm with
age (6)
57 Pupil (7)
59 The largest river in Europe in terms of length (5)
61 Quarter of a pint (4) 65 Troubles (4) 68 Female singer of popular songs (9) 69 Of a legendary race of female warriors (9)
71 Coming from the land towards the sea (of winds) (8) 72 Betrothal (8)
74 With no curves or deviations (8)
79 Keep down by unjust use of authority (7) 81 Denoting a numerical position in a series (7)
83 Of a blocked blood vessel (7)
85 Sound of disapproval (3)
87 Gulp (4)
88 Close by (2,4) 89 Search carefully and systematically again (6) 90 Public speaker who is eloquent or skilled (6)
94 Bird or fish trap (3) 95 Noisy fuss (3-2) 96 Ancient Athenian
philosopher (5) 97 Additional (5) 98 Child (5) 99 Corrected (a text) (7) 100 Musical composition
with words (4)
101 Seeds eaten as
vegetables (4)
102 One who has visions
of the future (4)
103 Stare lecherously at
(4)
DOWN
1 Quality of wickedness or criminality (13) 2 Past the time when expected (7) 4 Lie exposed to warmth for pleasure (4)
5 Crowded together
(8)
6 Bead of moisture that condenses on cool surfaces at night (7)
7 Part of a grave (9) 9 Made a special chess move involving a king and a rook (7) 10 Makes more interesting by the addition of fictitious detail (11)
11 Elderly (4)
12 Amount in each
hundred (10)
13 Bring from abroad
(6)
14 Periods devoted to particular activities (8) 15 Knockout (informal) (4)
16 Primeval god of darkness, son of Chaos (6)
23 Move stealthily or furtively (5) 27 Removes an obstruction from (6) 30 Dynasty which ruled China from 581 to 618 and reunified it (3)
33 Artists who produce head-and-shoulders paintings (12) 34 Tortilla with a filling (4)
36 Bad-tempered and irritable (5) 37 Primary subtractive colour (4)
38 Leaves (5) 40 Insincerity and deceitfulness (3-9)
Publicly reject a formerly held belief (6)
43 Jab with the finger (4) 46 Building where dramatic performances are staged (7)
47 Hole (3)
48 Small decorative
shoot or twig (5) 49 Small sponge cake usually soaked in rum-flavoured syrup (4)
51 Not quite right (5) 52 Animal hunted for
food (4)
54 Dried and fibrous
washing sponge (6) 56 Horizontal strip in a
Venetian blind (4) 58 Exclamation of
disgust (3) 60 Implant (living
tissue) surgically (5) 62 Cake topping (5) 63 Extreme minority
(7,6)
64 Spanish painter and etcher (1746-1828)
(4)
66 Course of existence
(4)
67 Interjection used upon making a mistake (6) 68 Document proving a person’s identity or qualifications (11) 70 Amazed (10) 73 Insufficiently cooked
(9)
75 Shakespearian
character (5) 76 Artificial universal language developed from Esperanto (3) 77 Cause to be no longer on friendly terms with someone (8) 78 Flowering climbing
plant (8)
80 Whet (7) 81 Affectionate form of address between men (3,3)
82 Atomic core (7) 84 Allowing (7)
86 Fly that transmits
sleeping sickness (6) 91 Deep red gem (4) 92 Exchanged for
money (4) 93 University in
Connecticut (4) 42