JUMBO CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Puff up (5)
4 Admit defeat (5,2,3,5) 14 Bomb (5)
15 Bread piece (5) 16 Mutual promise to marry (10) 17 Low-priced (5) 19 Nearest star (3) 20 Remark (7) 21 Involving two parties (9) 22 Spurn (6) 25 Mannish (9)
27 Bodily decoration (6) 28 University official (6) 33 Unripeness (10) 35 Self-image (3)
36 Meal outdoors (6) 37 Quieten (4) 39 Operate (3) 41 Watch glass (7) 42 Roused (6)
43 Enlist compulsorily (9) 44 Freewheel (5)
45 Tie (4,4)
50 Exist (2)
51 Antlered animal (8) 55 Singer, Mario ____ (5) 58 Slyly and secretively (9) 59 Staffroom cabinet (6) 60 European language (7) 61 Slippery fish (3) 63 Very impolite (4)
64 Of lower rank (6) 65 Lubricate (3) 66 Tempted Ron (anag)(10) 68 Wild cat (6)
69 Dried grape (6) 71 Plentiful supply (9) 76 Agreement (6) 77 Pleasant, friendly (9) 79 Told off (7) 81 Religious sister (3) 84 Play (5) 85 Powdered (10) 86 Branches (5)
87 Oily fruit (5) 88 Scarce (4,2,3,6) 89 Leered (5)
DOWN
2 Cricket bat wood (6) 3 Stand-in doctor (5) 5 Sharpen (4)
6 Round of applause (7) 7 Polar mass (3,3) 8 Subject (5) 9 Contender (7)
10 Long ago (4) 11 Smoothed (6) 12 Minimum (5) 13 Defamation (7) 14 Accelerate (5,2) 18 Wide of the mark (10) 23 Of small delicate build (5) 24 Devise, think up (7) 26 Gathered (7) 27 Defeat heavily (7) 29 Coast (7)
30 Come out into view (6) 31 Spasmodic (5) 32 Engaged man (6) 34 Sleepy inhalation (4) 36 Of punishment (5) 38 Measuring device (5) 40 Examine hastily (4)
45 Postpone (5) 46 Shorten (7) 47 Successor (4) 48 Tree-lined street (6) 49 Beneath (5) 50 Inflatable rubber bag (7) 52 Significance, weight (10) 53 Full of energy and new ideas (7)
54 Letting up (6)
55 Poetic (7)
56 Flaking (5)
57 Heavy metal (4) 62 Exhausted (5) 67 Acknowledge defeat (7) 68 View (7)
70 Firearm (7) 72 Swagger, feigned courage (7) 73 Sermonise (6)
74 Not acclaimed (6) 75 Weak (6)
76 Smithy's block (5) 78 Gridded chart (5) 80 Fibbing (5)
82 Sunrise (4)
83 Carved (4)