GIANT CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
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ACROSS 12
Being abusive at a christening? (4,7)
13 What I could be right in
describing as “spirit” (6)
14 No. Flip it over –
that’s the idea (6)
16 Awaken at half past
one to rain (4)
17 Says the girl put
weight on (9)
18 Olga turns right,
entering slowly (5)
19 Where sailors come
ashore for a drink (4)
20 Bit by bit the guard was
converted to a friend (9)
22 Be getting all worried
about the tab (5)
23 Garment worn when
tailing someone? (5,4)
27 The section “Aquatic
Bird” will show it (7)
30 Leave many trees in
need of pruning (6)
31 Unwilling to play the
hot number at first (4)
32 Big gale blowing and
rain coming in (5)
35 A man has come about
something in the garden (4)
36 Forgot to say it was in
need of water (5,2)
38 Drink about a litre
– a mistake (4)
39 Way back, had a galloping
nag in the logo (4,3)
42 Entreat, with charm (6)
45 Keep talking about how
you’ll set up home in? (5)
46 He made the actor jumpy
about appearing in (7)
47 Resented getting sent
off for the pipe (4)
48 The girl’s crazy
about one! (4)
50 Mum hates packing
cases (7)
52 Knowing to be in the
wrong area – the west (5)
54 Argue the man should be
back pounding the beat (6)
56 Came in and recorded (7)
57 Either way, it’s a
mistake (4)
59 Stupid extra terrestrial
found in the wood (7)
61 Slipped off with
the actors (4)
64 Give official approval to a street map that’s been modified (5)
66 So Roger lost his head
and came to grief (4) 67 On song, they tell one (6)
69 Managed to squeeze in,
though short of time (7)
72 Relaxes when the gale’s
decreased (5,4)
73 Are hugging. Do love (5)
74 Of course there’s a kind of art in getting the frame nicely shaped (9)
79 Notice heads turning (4)
81 Dances – rocks
and rolls (5)
82 Attacks the final house
to be built in (6,3)
83 After you put on display (4)
85 Teaches about transport (6)
86 When people go to bed,
one after another (6)
87 Nothing to go with the
bacon and egg? (3,1,7)
DOWN
1 Some stood up to catch (4)
2 Be annoyed, or get the
pip about, again (3,3)
3 Master criminal going
to a Spanish city (6)
4 How the form waiting to
be filled looked at you? (7)
5 Having somehow seen
turn in to, follow (5)
6 View, ourselves, as
advertising material (10)
7 Everybody, I figure, should
go back home (5)
8 The speed of number three
is not at all good (5-4)
9 How you get a bill on
your answer phone? (7)
10 Go no further than
second highest (4)
11 Getting on with the covering up of the windows (8)
15 Bark that means trouble (6)
21 As I scattered in
again, to grow (5)
24 The animals swallow the food up, which does surprise (7)
25 The pointer does irritate (6)
26 Spot one going in
to get food (6)
28 Anxious to get the present
finally wrapped up (5)
29 The man with the cane (3)
33 Cheated and fled – fleeing,
did get caught in (7)
34 Made a detour when
one traveled (6)
37 In addition, everything
loses its charms (5)
40 Again get to embrace
and say hello to (5) 41 Zips the clothes off (7)
43 Not much to look at
and that’s flat (5)
44 Eavesdrop for a time
– the outside lines got crossed (6)
46 Plan to have tea
before the start (5)
49 Imagined there was an adder crawling round me (7)
51 Made a fuss when one
pitted oneself against (4,2)
53 A number I got Ray to
release from the cage (6)
55 Money acts as a tonic (5)
58 Can’t it see it’s being obstructive to the motorist? (5,5)
60 Animal raised by Jack (3)
62 Rough sea – great, once you’ve crossed the Atlantic (5)
63 How one tug caught up
with another? (4,5)
65 Are they falling over themselves to take up travel offers? (8)
68 Front Street is by
a wood (6)
70 Deal with the problem
when you speak to (7) 71 Taking off about a thousand to the cricket ground (7)
75 “A giant”, I interposed,
“of the art world” (6)
76 Mischievous, pouring him
the odd sip to swallow (6)
77 Sean, holding round the
hospital, is pale (5)
78 Determined to attack (3,2)
80 End with a story
read aloud (4)
84 An indication that you’ll
give your approval to (4)