GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 The first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe (7,5)
5 Puts right (8)
10 Oil reservoirs (5) 15 Sea vessels (5) 17 Test (11)
18 Undoes (8) 19 Official department that collects duties on imported goods (7)
21 Annoyingly
insensitive (6) 24 Placed the ball ready to start a round of golf (4) 28 Wicked (4) 31 Typeface with
slanting letters (6) 32 Moved abruptly
forwards (7) 34 Convert into actual
fact (7)
35 Helps (4)
36 Brand of the armed forces formed in 1918 (3) 37 Overwhelming manifestation of an emotion or phenomenon (5,4) 39 Drink poured out as an offering to a deity (8)
40 Sticky deposit on teeth in which bacteria proliferate (6)
42 They come from a country whose capital is Canberra (11)
43 Solicitors (6) 44 Type of opaque
gemstones (5) 46 First note of a
musical scale (5) 48 Unit of heredity (4) 50 Failed to win (4) 52 Everlasting (7) 53 Japanese alcoholic drink of fermented rice (4) 55 Ostrich-like birds
(4)
58 Cast light (5) 59 Shout of approval
(5)
61 Refuse collector (6) 62 King of the Franks, known as Charles the Great (11) 64 Cause to eject liquid in a thin, fast stream (6) 66 Educated people who are interested in written works (8) 67 Disappears (9) 70 Sixth note of a
major scale (3) 71 Attempt to find (4) 73 Study closely (7) 74 Reddening of the skin from overtanning (7)
75 Tilt built into a road
at a bend (6) 76 Implores (4)
77 Level or grade within a hierarchy (4)
79 District of New York
City (6) 84 Capital of Washington (7) 88 Very hot and humid (8)
90 Dealing with (9,2) 91 Not flat (5) 92 Roman emperor (79-81 AD) (5) 93 Feeling mental or emotional strain (8) 94 Informal language used by cockneys (7,5)
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2 Point in an orbit either nearest or furthest away (5) 3 Casual cotton trousers (6) 4 Completely destroy (4)
6 Lyric poems written to address a particular subject (4)
7 Quantity of paper
(4)
8 Short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated (5) 9 Military hat with a peak and a plume (5)
10 Canonised person
(5)
11 Excavations for
extracting coal (5) 12 Small piece of
jewellery (4) 13 Lacking
decisiveness (8) 14 Dark and cold period following the use of atom bombs (7,6)
16 All-in-one
undergarments (7) 20 Gambling card
game (8)
22 Basic monetary unit
of Thailand (4) 23 Tympanic
membranes (8) 25 Parts of a serial
broadcast (8) 26 Tube through which darts are forced by air (8)
27 Principal administrative divisions of a country or empire (9)
29 One who has a very large social media following (10) 30 Repeated decorative designs (8)
33 Facts and statistics
(4)
Loose flowing garment (4) 38 Question
aggressively (11) 41 Falls back (6) 42 Braying animals (5) 45 Industrial city and river port in northern Kentucky (10)
47 Plant of the pea family with threelobed leaves (6) 48 Spherical map of
the earth (5) 49 Single performance ofashowina particular place (35,5)
51 Way of carrying out
a particular task (9) 54 Scholarly (8) 56 Revolt (8)
57 Point out (8) 59 Leave in a will (8) 60 Fails to give proper care or attention to (8)
63 Disappear gradually
(4)
65 Writing or printing
fluids (4) 68 Foundation for the lower surface of a room (8) 69 Unavoidable (7) 72 Formerly (4) 78 Spiral-horned
South African antelopes (6)
80 Be in store for (5) 81 Musical instruments with pear-shaped bodies (5)
82 Fixes (5)
83 More frozen (5) 85 Major taxonomic groups in zoology (5)
86 Go away (4) 87 Objects laid by birds
(4)
88 Ripped (4) 89 Compound used in solution in dyeing and tanning (4) 34