GIANT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wish for (4)

4 Painful or aching (4) 6 They are used to indicate omissions or the possessive case (11)

12 Harpoon (5) 16 Indian bison (4) 18 Piece of ground (7) 19 Female relative (6) 20 Small viper with an upturned snout (3) 21 Intersection of road and rail (5,8) 23 Believes (6) 25 Venom (6)

27 With certainty (10) 28 Tailor (5)

29 Walked leisurely (8) 30 Sheet of glass (4) 31 Gives away (7) 34 Sailing (8)

40 Fruit of the blackthorn (4) 41 Central American country (9) 42 Thought (4) 43 Decorative chain (7) 49 Involving deductive reasoning (1,6) 50 Things that may happen (13) 52 Clairvoyant (6-7) 55 Air taken into or expelled from the lungs (7)

61 Acts as a mediator (7)

62 Ballet dancer’s costume (4) 63 Supposed existence following death (9) 64 Playing cards that have a single spot (4)

65 Tendency to seek distraction from unpleasant realities (8)

69 Forecast (7) 72 Young hawk (4) 73 Response to a stimulus (8)

75 They produce gametes with which they fertilise (5) 76 Building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching (10) 78 Muscle in the arm

(6)

80 Former name for

Ho Chi Minh City (6) 82 Magnificent (13) 86 Expert (3) 87 Australian word for

a woman (6) 88 Type of harp that is

blown (7)

89 And others (Latin)

(2,2)

90 Adherents of an

Indian religion (5) 91 Cause to conform to an accepted way of doing something (11)

92 From (2,2) 93 Bitterly regrets (4)

DOWN

2 As it relates to education and scholarship (12) 3 The Magi (5,4,3) 5 Logical basis for a course of action (9) 7 Edible marine crustacean (5) 8 Produce musical tones with the voice (4)

9 Attain (5)

10 Small blades which fold into a handle (9)

11 Ooze (4) 12 American dish of maize and lima beans (9)

13 Tests (5)

14 Grow mature (5) 15 Omen (7)

17 Part of a picture that forms a setting for the main figures (10)

22 Small group of trees (5)

23 Pacific sea bream eaten as a delicacy in Japan (3) 24 Tarnish (5) 26 Purple-flowered stonecrop (5) 32 Former title of a

Russian ruler (4) 33 Type of acid synthesised by living cells (5) 35 Matters of public interest and importance (7) 36 First book of the Old

Testament (7) 37 Cold sea fog on the

east coast (4) 38 Disperse or radiate from a central point (3,3)

39 Landlocked country

in West Africa (4) 44 Small boat (5) 45 Type of board used to spell out supernatural messages (5) 46 Bring to an end (7) 47 Capital of Ghana (5) 48 Cavity within a bone

(5)

49 Helps (7) 51 Subdivisions of an

act of a play (6) 53 Visit (2,2)

54 Short musical

composition (5) 56 Of more than

average height (4) 57 Garment made from fabric elaborately draped around the body (4) 58 Worthwhile (10) 59 Period from 1st January to 31st December (8,4) 60 Summarise (12) 66 Hindu religious

teacher (5)

67 Travel documents

(9)

68 Broad, shallow craters formed by volcanic explosions (5)

69 Precondition (9) 70 Stiff pieces of paper

used in games (5) 71 Mishaps (9) 74 Relating to production of offspring with desirable characteristics (7) 77 Base number of the

decimal system (3) 78 Hits repeatedly (5) 79 Brook (5)

81 Largest city in

Nebraska (5) 83 Small amounts of

standing liquid (5) 84 Purposes (4) 85 Arduous (4)