GIANT CROSSWORD
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CRYPTIC
ACROSS
12 A lofty, tart “Sheer fantasy” (3,2,3,3)
13 A dog is more
prepared to (6)
14 Meaning to romp
about in it (6)
16 Doesn’t go on the
top and bottom (4)
17 Unexpectedly, not in
dribs and drabs (3,2,4)
18 Thinks of many
applications for (5)
19 In a fury, he left her
a time after (4)
20 Given to the current
editor (9)
22 Learned the chief had
a run-in with (5)
23 Move the crate with a tiny
nudge and it’s a cinch (9)
27 Going on and on though
there’s no point to (7)
30 Cure half of them to good
physical condition (6)
31 Blow! One’s supposed
to hang on to it! (4)
32 Reckon it’s deliberate (5)
35 It grows, when there’s
rain, in a marsh (4)
36 Getting a torch out I
put in the vehicle (7) 38 It’s brandy mixed
with, by heck! (4)
39 Tea has got awfully dear.
It’s quite farcical (7)
42 “Because,” one writes,
“there are trees” (6)
45 Only about five,
you work out (5)
46 Early showing, before
you see on TV (7)
47 Having returned, I put in
a great deal of work (4)
48 Caterwauling in the lane? (4)
50 Works out, from the shapes (7)
52 Are disgusting and
you push off (5)
54 In a foreigner, it is
mannerly (6)
56 Having marked in, changed
the dates around (7)
57 One chap is about to
become chief (4)
59 Drink that’s cooling
on a hot day (7)
61 Seem surprised to find the
small hole covered (4)
64 Do talk English in (5)
66 When upset, try a
milk pudding (4)
67 Are of importance.
That’s the trouble (6)
69 Sprinkle on the rower (7)
72 Improving them no end, with complete renovation (2,3,4)
73 Being ahead, not
prepared to work (2,3)
74 Can’t decide to move out of, to accommodate the sick (9)
79 Tip that’s very
little, indeed (4)
81 Blue that is not
for a boy! (5)
82 Improving, on setting
one’s sights higher (7,2)
83 Put the central heating
on. Cool move! (4)
85 Do take everything in
when you visit (4,2)
86 Explode when you
make fun of (4,2)
87 Be fast heading towards
bankruptcy? (3,4,4)
DOWN
1 Turn first left at the zoo (4)
2 Skips with the girls (6)
3 An air of tension
and tiredness (6)
4 Answers with “A salesman
stretches the truth” (7) 5 Take to the rink a
small girl (5)
6 Investigated again and
tried to find (10)
7 Impress as a
characteristic trait (5)
8 Continues to urge and
one’s upset by (7,2)
9 Is hurt badly by the
“English and hairy” (7)
10 A sharp reminder
to hurry (4)
11 Cheer up, then, going
off by ship (8)
15 Not thoroughly
off colour (6)
21 Fields and mountains (5)
24 Are left in it to guard her (7)
25 No end upset. I
take the A50 (6)
26 Make pay for the
accusation (6)
28 He can run half a
mile, about (5)
29 “So gruesome”, you say (3)
33 Rub on a lot, taking
a long time (7)
34 Appear to embarrass,
in front of (4,2)
37 The rows turn nastier
at the end (5)
40 Meaning to go with
the flow (5)
41 For stealing a heap of,
the convict is inside (7)
43 “Charming collection,”
we interposed (5)
44 Do feel pain, you allow (6)
46 Trimmed again, the
outside is flat (5)
49 Turn a child against
health food (7)
51 Why are odd numbers
turning up? (6)
53 Pictures you see lots
of in restaurants (6)
55 It’s frivolous?
Come off it! (5)
58 What you asked for when asked to name your price? (7,3)
60 Shoot up to the
highest point (3)
62 Having run through,
is very tired (5)
63 Your utmost to madden and set disastrously against (9)
65 Give one a beret one’s
better off without (8)
68 Made a fuss and one
agreed to do it (4,2)
70 For a start, thinking
it’s funny (7) 71 A local would profit
from it, It’s cheap (7)
75 Allege that I myself
put in (6)
76 The landlords accommodate a number in beastly homes (6)
77 Prison nearly
disheartened her (5)
78 Sign for the take away (5)
80 Ring, a great deal
upset, the number (4)
84 The young things caught
the bus, running after (4)