Giant Crossword
ACROSS
12 Readily, willingly (6)
13 Secretarial skill (6)
14 Foodstuff made from cocoa beans (9) Numbered musical piece (4) Act of police surveillance (5‑3) Broad‑bladed jungle knife (7) ___ Barlow, Coronation Street character (3) Masculine reflexive pronoun (7)
Hysteria (5)
Holiday missive (8)
In an earnest way (9) Emperor of Rome AD54‑68 (4)
Release the air from (7) (Learn) by committing to memory (2,5) American confectionery (5) Compel obedience of (7) First name of retired Australian golfer Mr Norman (4) Available when needed (2,4) Cricketers at the crease (7) Waters north of the Wirral peninsula (5,3) Top‑quality (2,4) Lightly cooked (4) Entertainment (9) Particularly (7) Methodical (7)
Crowd (5)
Animals of which Komodo dragons are the largest species (7)
Serve to illustrate (6) Positioned (6)
Expose (7)
Bugs ___, cartoon character (5) Hypothetically (2,5) Fortress (7)
Piece of plastic from the bank (5,4)
Related (to) (4) 16 18
19 20
21
22 23 25 27
29 31
33 35 39
41 44 45
48 49 50 52 56 58 59
60 62 64 67
69 71 73
74 75 78 80 82 83 85 87 89 91 96 98
Funny TV show (6) Final fanfare (4,4) Exhibition (7) Stylish, upmarket (6) Copied (4)
Eddied (7)
Allure (5)
Licitly (7) Abandoning, chucking (7) Opposite of ‘pull’ (4) Student at the top of the class (4,5)
100 Bad‑mannered
behaviour (8)
101 Human ___, person (5)
104 Infectious childhood
illness (7)
106 Metal bar (3)
107 Embalmed bodies (7)
109 Unobtrusive, restrained (3‑5) Invites (4) Almost, nearly (9) Tight‑fitting (jeans) (6) Insect that feeds on flour (6) 110 111 112 113
DOWN
1 ___ Christie, author (6)
2 Material returned to an excavated hole (8) Distant, standoffish (5) Equivalence and regularity (8) Circular token (4) Assented (to) (6) Popular spaniel variety (6) Copy from the internet (8) Tiller of a boat (4) Inherit unexpectedly (4,4) Shock absorber (6) Brie, Cheddar etc (6) Horrified (6) Endured (5) Prayer’s conclusion (4) Long period of time (5) Caress (6) 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 17 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 37 38 40 42 43
46 47 51 53 54
55 56 57
Strange, gloomy and weird (5) Appreciate (7) Distinguished military pilot (3) Advance very slowly (5) Additionally (2,4)
Golf expert (3)
Bonded (5)
Fulfil (5,3)
Conifer that sheds its leaves (5)
Rogue, rascal (5) Acid‑tasting (4) Grading (6)
Kept ready in a cask (2,3) ___ Howard, Brief Encounter actor (6) Greatly surprises, amazes (8) Bird reputed to be wise (3) Angled part of a roof (5) 61 63 65 66 67 68 70
72 75
76 77 79 81 84
86 88
By reason of (3) Ignorant, insensitive (5) Hair‑tidying implement (4) Cooking formula (6) Shower of projectiles (7) Rustic person (5) Unleavened bread variety (5)
Relative by marriage (2‑3) Sharp‑pointed engraving tool (6)
Atlantic or Pacific, eg (5) White wood (3)
Iron (5)
Little devil, wicked spirit (3) (Of a tyre) with a worn tread (4) Practise (a stage show) (8) Large retail store (8) 90
Cornwall’s most westerly point (5,3) Maintain, keep up (8) Roman murdered on the Ides of March (6)
94 Ham‑fisted (6)
95 Devotional hymn or song (5)
97 Bring to light (6)
99 Cycle‑boat (6)
100 ___ Ranganathan, The
Weakest Link host (6)
102 Goad, provoke (6)
103 Piece of confectionery (5)
105 Volcanic deposit (4)
108 Greek goddess of the
rainbow (4)
92 93