GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS
13 Generally speaking, covering not only part of (2,3,5)
14 “Trailblazer” is the one
coming in to jetty (7)
15 Cut to the pair
dancing nude (6)
16 Can change – and set about changing
– the attitude (6)
17 Decided the test: lashed
out and got ahead (7)
18 Try to get time to
assemble the seat (5)
19 Money is the key (4)
20 A hard murderer to
catch, in the series (5)
21 Save from the said mob (5)
22 Concoct, to get Sid and
Eve involved in (6)
23 It shows you’re wrong
to be peeved (5)
28 Pulled the dagger
out – dead (7)
30 Returns and is back again
among the wild swans (7)
33 The fruit of two trees (9)
36 Lots of pages of music (6)
38 Ran, when the car overturned, to get the man (5) 39 “Kind and gentle”
put in for fun (5)
40 Pop the c-cover
on. It’s white (6)
42 Stop to unlock the
case with a key (5)
43 Having a notice to serve
on, terribly hostile (7)
44 Had plumped for
“Hot Scone,” running on the outside (6)
46 Sensible, the
letters said (4)
49 Lovely and light (4)
51 Changes men get
terribly sad about (6)
53 Taking up the carpet?
That’s rich! (7)
55 About to ring us again
in, to awaken (5)
59 Changes to “Broken
slate letting rain in” (6)
60 Wash out. Cancel all but
the first hundred (5)
61 Stop when you won’t give
clear-cut answers to (5)
62 To deal with the landslide,
he goes round (6)
63 Keep at it and get through,
hard though it is (9)
65 In short, once is stupidly
caught entering (7) 66 Understood to have been
taken in hand by (7)
70 Resistance put up to
having a kiosk (5)
71 Tended to, when
one bent over (6)
73 Early in the morning, round
about five, had spotted (5)
75 When the troubles were
bad Leo left: split (5)
80 Cross, telling you there’s
more to come (4)
82 Though a mistake, it
starts off pleasantly (5)
83 When a gale’s blowing, bring a number inside to save (7)
84 He’s on his toes,
inserting the key (6)
85 While having posted
the agreement (6)
86 On return, gets information
about one’s savings (4,3)
87 One that’s shot to make
crowds disperse? (7-3)
DOWN 1
Can’t work in silence, you grasp (6)
2 Assuming to be an obsession about relations (8) 3 The group we are in is
very nice, indeed (5)
4 Is attracted by and
sets out to get (4,3)
5 A more successful
gambler (6)
6 Conjure up words
like magic? (5)
7 Fed the old within that
had collapsed (6)
8 Standing, as always,
outside, it’s fidgety (7)
9 One’s informant in the wardrobe department? (5,5)
10 Spotted – small
and spotted (5)
11 Did he come second in the “Fastest Climber Competition?” (8)
12 Just to get to know (4)
24 Goes off with friends at
the end of class (7)
25 Feel it’s essential to
start off with (5)
26 Foreign? Three quarters
– and a beauty (7)
27 Before turning in, sent on exhibit to the Reptile House (7)
29 Gather in the cherub’s
head is damaged (5) 31 Special position that’s
pleasant and hard to fill (5)
32 The name that came up (4)
34 Game bird flying the
geese start to follow (6)
35 Unwilling, which makes a
deal hard to conclude (4)
37 Hold back, from
stand-offishness (7)
41 Really mean to get
information (3-4)
45 Either pick out or miss? (6)
47 Huge volume I’ve put
at the bottom (7)
48 Material the silly sap
is in hock for (7)
50 “Sickness”, left in, I
mean to erase (7)
52 Deleted “let off” from
the document (4)
54 The English boys are
taken round by guides (5)
56 Work out that only a small
number will fit in (5)
57 Open some of the
sound ones (4)
58 Stay with the female
or go inside (5)
60 Heavens, answer!
Exchange letters with! (10)
64 For a member of the family
hiding in, boding ill (8) 67 Doctor Russel flakes
out. Has a snooze (8)
68 Batting and anxious
in the extreme (7)
69 Many, as always, in the
saloon half cut (7)
72 Ran when one threw at (6)
74 Go by the east, to “82” (6)
76 Come out – pour out
– into the street (6)
77 For the liver concoction, brought round a large dish (5)
78 Waves down when
one’s tiring (5)
79 In one’s hurry, the
hot tea’s spilt (5)
81 Does prove durable,
after all (4)