THE GIANT CROSSWORD

CHOOSE CRYPTIC OR QUICK, THE ANSWERS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME, THE SOLUTION WILL APPEAR IN MONDAY’S PAPER.

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 12 Same place miles away? Quite wrong! (7,4) I set about getting something to eat (6) 13 14 Think the notice outside was funny (6) 16 Surprised, to start off with, by the incentive (4) 17 Starts arranging seats before the match (4,5) 18 Dead wrong about one having abetted (5) 19 In that case it’s the beginning of November (4) 20 Pays for drinks — or manages to avoid (4,5) 22 Number five seen coming from the outside (5) 23 Reminded one that intermission was over? (4,1,4) 27 The man’s right. It’s all in the past (7) 30 Career harmed by disheartening lapse (6) 31 They hum notes for us to hear (4) 32 The man in the toy shop (5) 35 Don’t allow to get stuck in jail (4) 36 Gives the fellow the wrong seat (7) 38 Anything but slack when getting tuition, you say (4) 39 Going down as ‘The Evil Monarch’ (7) 42 Tear all one’s clothes off (6) 45 Anxious when most of the nestegg is dissipated (5) 46 Agreeing with the head (7) 47 Spoil by giving one the run-around (4) 48 Just for exhibition (4) 50 Pal, doubtless, having turned in will be reading (7) 52 A number were in debt and frightened (5) 54 Was sorry for having put two Bs in ‘abraded’ (6) 56 ‘Bet the fellow has left,’ you say (7) 57 Bird that laid an egg in the bed (4) 59 Odd way to get anger to disperse (7) 61 Leave a name (4) 64 Provided with information about the four (5) 66 Declared the fruit to be prune (4) 67 Beginning to mix chopped suet in (6) 69 Being inclined to take time with the completion (7) 72 Game to have a go at striking? (4,5) 73 Stretches back to get the biscuits (5) 74 Like the bad actor in the nude: awful but not embarrassed (9) 79 Fight with a small boy (4) 81 We enter to the right of the building (5) 82 So other broke free, somehow, inside (9) 83 A great deal taken aback, gets the number to ring (4) 85 Shopkeeper who’s Greek to the core: eccentric (6) 86 Cut with the flaming cue, badly (6) 87 The trapper’s slogan? (5,6)

DOWN 1 Hence increased the first course (4) 2 Summer wear for the small son (6) 3 Quickly again occupying a new post (6) 4 Isn’t changing the lining colour for the moment (7) 5 Greasy foodstuff, most of all, is lethal (5) 6 Good wishes to frontrunners without exception (3,3,4) 7 I’d adjusted the front seat (5) 8 As a cistern, was sound (4,5) 9 The musicians take a long time to dress (7) 10 Arrested for having vandalized? (4) 11 Disgusted, drove off (8) 15 Truly hard, set on solving (6) 21 Are to leave round about the second (5) 24 What wrecked the surfboard? (7) 25 Knob you keep hitting with your head? (6) 26 From the first of April — spring — are plentiful (6) 28 A laconic ‘Part of Battersea’ (5) 29 He’s made a hole in the road (3) 33 It’s on order again, yet to come (2,5) 34 The vocalist grins, bungling a note in (6) 37 With sun and water, puff out (5) 40 One in the front row (5) 41 Caring about and looking after (7) 43 Path you follow that has rivers running through it (5) 44 On the fishmonger’s slab, did it drop off? (6) 46 Little cuts. Nothing to speak of (5) 49 Go back to negotiate with again (7) 51 It reveals the abode has running water! (6) 53 Fought the charge, again in custody (6) 55 Stooped to get the key and we do unlock (5) 58 Didn’t disregard the employee’s resignation? (4,6) 60 See it’s as I said (3) 62 Run through, for the doctor (5) 63 ‘Read my lips’ is the slogan (9) 65 I next cover for the new rep, unskilled (8) 68 Quickly entering, recorded and listened to the conversation (6) 70 Act up ridiculously again when you take prisoner (7) 71 Bill that comes to one orally? (7) 75 Shed tears after a second that one brushes away (6) 76 Attending it, having returned again to dress (6) 77 Categorise as ‘Awful rag needing charge of Ed’ (5) 78 The accountant’s in prison, the nut! (5) 80 One gets attached to a dog in a

short time (4) 84 The hair on one side has

tangled (4)