GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
3 Portable gas hob
(6,5)
9 Very close-fitting
(4-5)
13 Something false (4) 14 Institute legal proceedings against (3)
16 Long and harsh
questioning (5,6) 17 Nose (4)
18 Type of cheese
made in Holland (5) 19 Called (5)
22 Animal feet (4) 23 Movable barrier in
a fence (4)
25 Hole for a coin (4) 27 Covet (4) 29 Powdery dirt (4) 30 Ended (4)
32 Wildcat of Central and South America (6)
33 Split or tear apart
(4)
35 Temerity (8) 36 More difficult (6) 38 Open to corrupt
influence (5) 39 Smoothing tool (4) 43 Straighten out (6) 46 Clothes (4)
47 Stated one’s intention to take hostile action against (10)
51 It is injected to treat or protect against specific diseases
(9)
52 Lithesome (6) 56 Australian informal word for their iconic marsupial (3) 57 Fear of open or
public spaces (11) 58 She won nine Wimbledon singles titles (11)
59 Sash worn around the waist of a kimono (3)
61 Two parallel poles connected by rungs (6)
65 Astronomical unit
of distance (5,4) 66 Chief port of Egypt
(10)
67 Sultanate on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula (4) 68 English painter and
engraver (6)
70 Thin, flat circular
object (4)
71 Former name for the Democratic Republic of Congo (5)
73 Territorial division
of England (6) 75 Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting (8) 81 Unpleasant (4) 82 Hinder (6) 84 Harvest (4)
85 Large international public display at a trade fair (4) 87 Fruits eaten fresh
or dried (4) 88 Sudden strong rush
of wind (4)
90 Loud sustained
doleful cry (4) 91 Hauled (4)
93 City in Honshu (5) 97 Respiratory organs
(5)
99 Just (4)
100 Relating to a system in which groups co-exist (11)
101 Abbreviation placed before a phone number (3)
102 Makes sharp, shrill
barks (4)
103 Disappeared (9)
104 Method of printing
using stone (11)
DOWN
1 Underground container for sewage (8) 2 Group of criminals (4)
4 Sunken or depressed engraving or carving (8) 5 Unresolved (2,2,3,3) 6 Part on the left or
the right (4)
7 Call given, typically three times, by a town crier (4) 8 Register (5) 9 Aroma (5) 10 Number of ladies dancing in the 12 Days Of Christmas song (4) 11 Fashionable and
exciting (6) 12 Mischievous child
(4)
13 Large saltwater
algae (7)
15 Period following sunset but before night (4)
20 Change location (4) 21 Deep vascular inner layer of the skin (5) 24 Hawaiian dance (4) 25 One who works and so makes industrial action ineffectual (6-7)
26 Abide by (4)
28 Short story with a punchline (4) 31 Occasion for the playing of practical jokes (5,5,3)
34 One financially trapped in an unpleasant job (4,5) 36 Agitated and frustrated (3,2) 37 Majestic (5) 40 Particles that are electrically charged (4)
41 Stock (13)
42 Win (7)
Structure in which eggs are laid (4) 45 Type of sugar (8) 48 Type of nut (6) 49 Greek courtier condemned to sit beneath a suspended sword (8)
50 Two violins, a viola
and a cello (6,7) 53 Male or female, but
not both (9) 54 Particle with
positive charge (6) 55 Rubbers (7) 60 Truncated or unusually short thing (4)
62 They produce
commercials (5) 63 Fop (5)
64 Wines made from
dark grapes (4) 69 Type of aircraft that has overhead rotors (10)
72 Slope joining
different levels (4) 74 Body (5)
75 Its capital is Lima
(4)
76 Finno-Ugric
language (4) 77 Close-fitting covering for the crown of the head (8)
78 Holiday areas (7) 79 Securely closed
again (8) 80 Member of an airborne unit of troops (4)
83 Names of
compositions (6) 86 Offer for sale (4) 88 Opened wide (5) 89 Propel a boat with an oar placed over the stern of a boat (5)
92 Part of a coat which
covers the head (4) 94 Shelf at the foot of a
window (4)
95 Tilt (4)
96 Public open-air
swimming pool (4) 98 Move from side to
side (4) 44