GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 13
All right. Not too cloudy (4,6)
14 In the garden, a very gentle
rain’s seeping into (7)
15 Annoyed about the
note, complained (6)
16 Land in the postal
sorting office? (6)
17 Waiting for overhaul (7)
18 Is inclined to stop in
a back street (5)
19 All there, you say, for
the opening (4)
20 Doesn’t throw out if
it doesn’t go off (5)
21 Laid off the man I
brought in (5)
22 Possibly dead right in
having moved quickly (6)
23 A perfect partner
for the game (5)
28 Bet the fellow left,
you say (7)
30 Looks for compliments (7)
33 Value decreased?
That’s very funny (9)
36 And there’s a piece
about an outlaw (6)
38 To member of the team,
it’s frightening (5)
39 General allowance (5) 40 Having less polish,
in substance (6)
42 Tired by the end of the
show, taking a year off (5)
43 Mum, shaken, treat
for shock (7)
44 Determine to get a seat (6)
46 A job in “Dynasty” (4)
49 Left one to get on
with the game (4)
51 Didn’t allow the minstrel
to be heard (6)
53 Grasped it had been
very interesting (7)
55 Squeeze as you lift (5)
59 Because money goes
with the rise (6)
60 The language, when you
don’t pay your debts! (5)
61 Needing a rest, it went
back to the shade (5)
62 How to separate the wheat from the chaff is the puzzle (6)
63 I’m not to perform with the band playing at the game (9)
65 This wave is a smasher! (7)
66 Why there’s a penny and
nothing more in the bag (7)
70 Hard on the small boy (5)
71 Come out to get
something to eat (6)
73 Fur auction the
British go in for (5)
75 Searches to find
the crests (5)
80 So though disheartened
is going to America (4)
82 For the miserly with
money, very fitting (5)
83 Eat like a bird (7)
84 Time the players (6)
85 For the job of minder,
having a key to enter (6)
86 On the whole, not something to wear when dressing up (7)
87 Surprised reaction when you have a second helping? (6,4)
DOWN 1
The fellow, given time, will become boss (6)
2 A nutcase taking
drug after drug (8)
3 Swimming angel fish (5)
4 Job hunting (7)
5 Rush to fill up (6)
6 In a whirl about seeing
a foreign country (5)
7 And dropping Ferdinand
off is a buddy (6) 8 Coming to set the siren
off outside (2,5)
9 General knowledge (4,6)
10 Cheeky, but not
with the old (5)
11 A drink at “The
Full Moon”? (8)
12 You and I will fit (4)
24 To trap rain, the nicest
possible tank (7)
25 Getting some slumber,
then, in bed (5)
26 Go through the various
names of fruit (7)
27 Run to get a policeman
in to scare off (7)
29 Will, if you make
yourself scarce (5)
31 Be late at first (5)
32 Really likes the
accommodation (4)
34 Much is written about
the priest (6)
35 Parking beside
one, walk (4)
37 Digging up the garden at one point, make you mad (7)
41 Had drawn everybody
into, agreed (7)
45 Score a goal in,
being smart (6) 47 Weakening, and putting
the box in a bag (7)
48 The tool, a rake, the
fellow returned (7)
50 The flash isn’t bothering
the little creature (7)
52 She appears at the end
of the pantomime (4)
54 To get a penny, sure to
take out the bag (5)
56 In which the brain keeps all one’s thoughts imprisoned (5)
57 Fish in an urn? (4)
58 A family doctor has come
about our disorder (5)
60 A carved bird? (4,6)
64 Tend to have a little
rest break after (8)
67 A characteristic of
real estate (8)
68 Couldn’t stand the awful heat inside: old and doddery (7)
69 Short circuit just as you’re
having a big meal? (7)
72 Italian and French
you study (6)
74 Speak of as “on the whole
due for demolition” (6)
76 Gives up the habit of
having recesses? (6) 77 Keep the set or
break it up (5)
78 Set out to make a
wisecrack (5)
79 Had to do with, a
lot of the time (5)
81 Said “Now, listen!” (4)