GIANT CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Clump of tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
(4)
3 Long walk (4) 6 Green gemstone (4) 8 Country in Central
Africa (4) 11 Policemen (7)
17 Five horizontal lines on which musical notes are written
(5)
18 Bottoms of boats
(5)
19 Minute epidermal
pore (5)
20 Indian stringed
instrument (5) 21 Snake-like fish (3) 22 People of the
aristocracy (6) 24 Characterised by strength and energy (6) 25 Substance believed
to cure all ills (6) 26 Bad smell (4) 28 Member of a people who inhabit Benin in Nigeria (3) 29 Everlasting (7) 31 Roman name for
Odysseus (7)
32 Get back in one’s
possession (7) 35 Unbound paper
publication (8) 39 Unfaithful (8) 41 Worldwide intelligence agency (8)
44 Specialist skill or
knowledge (9) 45 Flammable gas
used in welding (9) 48 Thought (4)
50 Band of material (4) 52 Unimportant (5) 53 Allspice (7) 55 Mammals of the
giraffe family (6) 56 Approaching (6) 57 City in central
Florida (7) 59 Quarrels (5)
61 Digits on the feet (4) 65 Showing vigour or
spirit (4) 68 Grammatical units
(9) 69 Mouth organ (9) 71 Plant of a genus that includes cabbage and swede (8) 72 Grotesque misrepresentation (8)
74 Font (8)
79 Small bone (7) 81 Tropical storm (7) 83 Hindu title of honour (7)
85 Hit or punch quickly (3)
87 Like (2,2) 88 Concept (6) 89 Decorative plaster (6)
90 Italian brandy (6) 94 Sticky substance (3) 95 Divisions of a branch (5) 96 Spokes (5) 97 Exhibition of
cowboy skills (5) 98 Aplomb (5)
99 Wrap in garments
(7)
100 Unimaginative (4) 101 Insects which
produce honey (4) 102 Chinese monetary
unit (4)
103 Objects laid by birds
(4)
DOWN
1 Understands incorrectly (13) 2 Move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait (7)
4 Writing or printing fluids (4)
5 Retired from an office but retaining one’s title (8) 6 Provide adequate grounds for (7) 7 Spreading (9)
9 Of greater weight (7)
10 Recognisable (11) 11 Beds for babies (4) 12 They entertain audiences (10) 13 Come out (6) 14 Larva of a saturniid moth (8) 15 Goddess of youth in Greek mythology (4)
16 Motorised bicycles (6)
23 Growl with bared teeth (5)
27 Lose strength or momentum (6) 30 Opening made forcibly by pulling apart (3) 33 Correct behaviour or decorum while eating (5,7) 34 Cargo storage area (4)
36 Feels dejected and apathetic (5) 37 Cause pain (4) 38 Omit a sound or syllable when speaking (5) 40 Tendency that has become instinctive (6,6)
42 Spay (6) 43 Projections on rotating parts in machinery (4) 46 Tropical storm (7) 47 Female relative (3) 48 Ill-chosen (5) 49 Dandies (4) 51 Hirsute (5)
Porcine mammals (4)
54 Parts of legs (6) 56 Electric flex (4) 58 Falsehood (3) 60 Sudden attack into
enemy territory (5) 62 Board used to spell out supernatural messages (5) 63 They head groups working on technical aspects of plays (5,8)
64 Ballot (4) 66 Freshwater fish (4) 67 Weak and
insubstantial (6) 68 Dogged by bad luck
(4-7)
70 Connected with something else in one’s mind (10) 73 Beyond normal
limits (9)
75 Crash (5)
76 Part of the US Department of Health and Human Services (3) 77 Vegetables with thick green or purple leaves (8) 78 Small storage container often kept next to the kettle (3,5) 80 African country on
the Red Sea (7) 81 The world’s secondlargest country by total area (6) 82 Bodies of work (7) 84 Hitting lightly (7) 86 Asian temple (6) 91 Plant grown for its
oil-rich seed (4) 92 Holding device attached to a workbench (4) 93 Roster (4) 52