GIANT CROSSWORD QUICK
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ACROSS 12
Recovering from a bout of failing to clear the jumps? (7,4)
13 No. Won’t change to
some other time (3,3)
14 For the swap, I come in
for a lot of abuse (6)
16 About a pound overweight.
That’s indisputable (4)
17 So cut out the name,
as usual (9)
18 How to start renovating the repossessions is the question (5)
19 The head sounds
like a foreigner (4)
20 Though drunk, see it’s an
awkward situation (5,4)
22 A number are small
and flat (5)
23 Like a cake without sultanas and raisins. No good (9)
27 What a fuss about a bag
not checked in! (5-2)
30 It’s about time mother does
assume importance for (6)
31 The topless dress will
astonish you (4)
32 “Quiet when playing,” you
then say, “young man” (5) 35 Cry “Look!” (4)
36 Entering into a squabble
about cargo (7)
38 “Manage,” I put in,
“to spoil” (4)
39 Stop letting in a quarter
of the foreigners (7)
42 Grass that can
cut itself? (5)
45 The ship’s turning
again, love (6)
46 Caught us, drat, pouring
on the sauce! (7)
47 For most of the day,
is on the stand (4)
48 Taking time to put in
lettuce beds (4)
50 “Please” is a word that’s
gone out of usage (7)
52 Anything that will get
a thug to reform (5)
54 Notice a T has crept
into “18” (6)
56 Worried, I ran in to
appeal to, carrying (7)
57 Certain Nat and he
will form a bond (4)
59 Results of crossing
birds with rodents? (7)
61 The girl became
rebellious (4)
64 Turns back to “Money
savers” (5)
66 A bit of an eye for a girl (4)
67 A fish, you think, to eat
only the head and tail of (6)
69 And the boyfriend is
carrying the girl’s ribbon (7)
72 Say goodbye,
paradoxically (4,5)
73 Say all but fifty of the
latest were destroyed (5)
74 A not bad, funny role
in “The List” (9)
79 Stop me reversing
onto the street (4)
81 Tell to re-do, changing
right through (5)
82 Pastry in the form
of a snake? (4,5)
83 Advantage he’d get
being in the centre (4)
85 Fight one lost on
getting an injury (6)
86 When renovated, the
interior is quite modern (6)
87 Oppressed and walked
all over by? (4-7)
DOWN
1 What made the diviner
say “Gracious me!”? (4)
2 Upsetting the birds,
the child is a pain (6)
3 Criticises the Fort
soundly (6)
4 Stolen photo of a VIP (7)
5 A lone tattered figure
in yellow (5)
6 What the little imp who frightened the monk caused? (4,6)
7 Puts in the picture (5)
8 Amazed, as we hurtled
towards the big vehicle (9)
9 With a light metal,
embark on (5,2)
10 Support for the
president, initially (4)
11 When I got the old side
re-trained, really loved it (8)
15 “Clear case,” I deleted (6)
21 I myself enclosed a note
with the picture (5)
24 Found out many didn’t work on an honorary basis (7)
25 With arm trembling, getting
a drink: on edge (6)
26 They think bars are for
playing about in (6)
28 Knocking back the usual
one a day, fast (5)
29 Not working and
that’s bad (3)
33 Make a speech in which
to relinquish rights to? (7)
ACROSS
12 Recovering from (7,4)
13 Another time (3,3)
14 Harangue (6)
16 Apartment (4)
17 Usual (9)
18 Difficult question (5)
19 Head (4)
20 Hard situation (5,4)
22 Number (5)
23 No good (9)
27 To-do (5-2)
30 Be important (6)
31 Astonish (4)
32 Temper (5)
35 Look (4)
36 Cargo (7)
38 Spoil (4)
39 Nationality (7)
42 Cutters (6)
45 Ship (5)
46 Sauce (7)
47 Stand (4)
48 Beds (4)
50 Old-fashioned “please” (7)
52 Anything (5)
54 Notice (6)
56 Carrying (7)
57 Male name (4)
59 Birds (7)
61 Rebelled (4)
64 Twirls (5)
66 Plant (4)
67 Fish (6)
69 Ribbon (7)
72 Say goodbye (4,5)
73 Announce (5)
74 Not bad (9)
79 Stop (4)
81 Command (5)
82 Snake (4,5)
83 Advantage (4)
85 Scratch (6)
86 Quite modern (6)
87 Oppressed (4-7) 34 Busy working as an
escapologist? (4,2)
37 Is half strangled by a
straggling tree, in short (5)
40 The ladies somehow
lost a picture (5)
41 Can include a tip, perhaps,
for the one in charge (7)
43 A vague “Oodles. Possibly
around five hundred” (5)
44 Lying back ourselves
against the tree (6)
46 Plan for tea-time (5)
49 Shot in, gets changed and
is not one’s usual self (7)
51 Has painters in, which
does bother one (6)
53 Heartbroken by the note,
you understand (6)
55 Not a word about the
coloured fragment! (5)
58 Happen when you arrive
at and give to (4,2,4)
60 With time about up,
coming to a conclusion (3)
62 For the last half,
everybody has a seat (5)
63 Verifying that I’d occupy
if and only if (9)
65 Do put the price on the
outside. It’s the custom (8)
68 Felt sort of imprisoned,
DOWN
1 Gracious me! (4)
2 Pain (6)
3 Criticises (6)
4 VIP (7)
5 Yellow (5)
6 Little imp (4,6)
7 Photographs (5)
8 Amazed (3-6)
9 Embark on (5,2)
10 Support (4)
11 Loved (8)
15 Clear (6)
21 Picture (5)
24 Found out (7)
25 Edge (6)
26 Minds (6)
28 Fast (5)
29 Not working (3)
33 Speechify (7)
34 Busy (4,2)
37 Short (5)
40 Picture (5)
41 Skipper (7)
43 Vague (5)
44 Lying (6)
46 Plan (5)
49 Odd (7)
51 Hector (6)
53 Understand (6)
55 Fragment (5)
58 Happen (4,2,4)
60 Time (3)
62 Seat (5)
63 On condition (9)
65 Custom (8)
68 Released (3,3)
70 Rested (7)
71 Sweet (7)
75 Mistakes (6)
76 Changes (6)
77 Depicted (5)
78 Vehicle (5)
80 Complain (4)
84 Attempts (4)
though released (3,3)
70 The salesman does work,
having taken a break (7)
71 A sweet, loving
little creature (7)
75 Sorrier I missed the
anagram mistakes (6)
76 When, to conceal the repair, one makes alterations to (6)
77 Depicted “Rain in the
Early Morning” (5)
78 Go pale, trapped by
the vehicle (5)
80 Complain about the
stated cut (4)
84 Bashes – or beats it (4)