GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Fraudulent
schemes (5) 12 Words that one may use to refer to people, places or things (8) 13 Quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both equal in length (13) 16 Spokes (5) 17 Emphasis on maximising profit (13)
18 Rough drawing (6) 19 Striped African
antelope (4) 21 Recommend (a substance or action) as something beneficial (9) 24 Support for the head of a sleeping person (6)
25 Brief written record
(4)
27 Raises or hauls up
(6)
28 Person who wears
no clothes (6) 30 Two-wheeled
vehicle (7) 31 Suffered from a continuous dull pain (5)
33 Danger (4)
36 Moon goddess (6) 37 Clenches together
(5)
39 Extremely
unpleasant (4) 40 Works (8)
44 Cramp (5)
45 Gets into (8) 47 Opposite of profit
(4)
48 County Town of
Antrim (7)
50 Cream puffs (7) 51 Worthless material
(7)
56 Examinations taken typically when aged about 18 (1,6) 57 State of mental
confusion (4) 60 Cocktail containing advocaat and lemonade (8) 62 Member of a people of southern India and Sri Lanka (5)
64 Lets out (8)
65 Small wooded hollow (4)
66 Chairs (5) 67 Assistant (6) 68 Long walk (4) 69 Villain in Oliver Twist (5)
70 Embankment built for defensive purposes (7)
71 Thick, solid pieces of something (6) 74 Animal having a congenital absence of pigment (6) 77 Father (4)
78 Refuses to accept
(6)
79 Happy (9)
83 Money payable for a
journey (4)
85 Leap to attack
(6)
86 Worldwide Christian evangelical organisation
(9,4)
89 Boredom (5)
90 Flat boards on supporting legs
(7,6)
91 Large pachyderm
(8)
92 Craftily (5)
DOWN
1 Delivering a blow to (8)
2 Said further (5) 3 Saliva (4)
4 Liquid oxygen (3) 5 Brief statement of the main points (7) 6 Gatherings (10) 7 Quickly (5) 8 All-inclusive (5) 9 Protective hats (7) 10 People who like talking about other people’s private lives (7) 11 Impossible to be substituted (13) 14 Placed down gently (4)
15 Instruments used for measuring minute distances
(11)
17 Containers designed to hold or protect (5)
20 Span (6)
22 Parallel of latitude 66 degrees 33 minutes north (6,6) 23 In contrast or comparison with the fact that (7) 26 Come in (5) 29 Heavy-duty
waterproof cloth (9) 32 Fought with foils (6) 34 Orange-brown antelopes of SE Africa (4) 35 Goddess of youth in Greek mythology (4) 38 Musical speeds (5) 41 Compound formed by an acid and an alcohol reaction (5) 42 The US-sponsored European Recovery Program (8,4) 43 Spoil (3) 46 Intriguingly puzzling
(9)
49 White stick used to write on blackboards (5) 52 Wash by immersing
one’s body (5) 53 Condensed atmospheric vapour (3)
54 In high spirits (6) 55 Device with a screen for receiving broadcast programmes (10,3) 58 Resulted in an even
distribution (8,3) 59 Ornamental jar (4) 60 Band of material (4) 61 Man involved in petty criminal activities (4,3) 63 Sanctify (5) 66 Encircled (10)
67 US informal word
for a wild goose (6) 72 Convenient (5) 73 Peaceful tranquillity
(8)
74 Facets (7)
75 Female spirit who wails to warn of impending death (7) 76 Young actress with
high aspirations (7) 80 Island famous as the place of Napoleon’s first exile (4)
81 Twit (5)
82 Debut (5)
84 Bother (5) 87 Receives (4) 88 Droop (3)