GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 12
Talking big while donning (7,2,2)
13 One dingo is frolicking
in the shade (6)
14 Keeps talking as one
hurries aboard (4,2)
16 Name that’s making a
comeback, also (4)
17 Foolishly I enter the nag
to run in: an import (9)
18 Material found in
the river (5)
19 “Point zero” is missing
in the quantity (4)
20 See and stop for a
random inspection (4,5)
22 Time to slacken off, kid (5)
23 No good if it’s
depreciated in value (9)
27 With the house, gets
half the settlement (7)
30 Mistakenly, she left an
N out of “England” (6)
31 The top note, had held (4)
32 Make yourself heard
– and well (5)
35 Learn it’s part of the
armed forces (4)
36 Got better, everyone having
been in dire trouble (7)
38 The so-and-so split
and let the rain in (4)
39 I’m so bowled over by
the woman’s bravery (7)
42 The shutter is heavier (6)
45 The question is, should
we cover for her? (5)
46 There’s possibly accommodation for fifty in the hut (7)
47 Bag with which some
will be brought back (4)
48 Is sufficient for the
female animals (4)
50 Assume the wrong date
had been given to (7)
52 Turning to the female
for a second (5)
54 Cope with pronouncing the foreign composer’s name (6)
56 We take a call, though
it’s tiresome (7)
57 The guard initially at the
border is unsmiling (4)
59 Tern flying onto a
hill in flood (7)
61 Back “Hard Drinker”?
Rubbish! (4)
64 Was liable to, if
one got up (5)
66 Having a drink with a
royal in, look happy (4) 67 Having cut, tied up (6)
69 Rubs out “He had
hardly touched” (7)
72 Keeps cool and
postpones it (4,2,3)
73 Bad weather. Most,
bedraggled, run inside (5)
74 Knocking drinks back with unseemly greed, is laughed at (9)
79 Getting mum to turn
for the photo (4)
81 Find in the tool kit
a long nail (5)
82 Make up for returning it
to me previously (2,3,4)
83 How long it will take to
identify the parasite? (4)
85 Not just having fun,
out taking the air (6)
86 The masculine look for
women doesn’t work (6)
87 Stopping and stowing
the article away (7,2,2)
DOWN
1 What arsonists
yearn to do (4)
2 “It’s a kind of jacket –
honest”, you say (6)
3 Silence can’t be broken
in, you grasp (6) 4 If you really want to, can
move into the boat (7)
5 Having counted, love and
we do set out to protect (5)
6 Sit down too much, if you
know what I mean (10)
7 I’d lifted up the fallen
tot, just the same (5)
8 Leading lady in “The
Female Boss” (9)
9 Learned it’s terribly rude
to take the tie off (7)
10 Break in the game (4)
11 Continuations of
activities (6-2)
15 Good. Has gone flying
after the bird (6)
21 Very good when you supply with the answer beforehand (5)
24 Try to find other words
for “Be careful” (4,3)
25 Put “Caught one fish” (6)
26 Attack and reach out
to grab the key (6)
28 Plays about with boats
on the lake (5)
29 Gather, having lost
the fish (3)
33 Running, chuck, with
a cry, into (7)
34 On many a planet
there’s a shortage (6)
37 Fear the daughter will
see, in the paper (5)
40 It sells items for the
small and big (5)
41 Returning to devour half,
the rats were hungry (7)
43 “Ill-fitting” is vague (5)
44 The animal has a lair
inside? Nonsense! (6)
46 In brief, try to get
right into (5)
49 No joke, if Rosie’s been
sent off to America (7)
51 Getting fed up with it,
returned the ring (6)
53 It flies from the north,
turning east to enter (6)
55 Put up to raise
the money (5)
58 Left wheel marks behind
as one went towards (4,6)
60 Jack left the pie
unfinished (3)
62 Lady, a man is turned
on by soft skin (5)
63 Very valuable?
That’s funny (9)
65 Making contact with
is poignant (8)
68 Contrarily, breaking the
top of the box (6) 70 Coming on, it’s
frisking about (2,5)
71 Goes back on one’s
choice of and rips? (7)
75 The information’s put outside about the vegetables (6)
76 Involve treating ten
that are sick (6)
77 Available for half the
pantomime’s run (2,3)
78 Within a year, roughly
fifty pass on (5)
80 The players have a drink
at “The Mare’s Head” (4)
84 A box for a brooch (4)