TODAY’S QUICK CROSSWORD

CHOOSE cryptic or quick, answers are the same. SOLUTIONS ON MONDAY

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

12 Teacher with bike funnily gets

to relax atmosphere (5,3,3)

13 Improvise to reach party (4,2)

14 Priest spraying oil by cross

is affected by verbosity (6)

16 Mention couple getting fruit (4)

17 Make a loud noise over part

of a bird turning sickly? (9)

18 First of blokes with fantastic

nous is ship’s officer (5)

19 Project at intervals for

one given to verse? (4)

20 Len’s prone to mobilise workforce (9)

22 Put in advanced work having received start of pay (5)

23 A treaty to be amended about Austria and Norway, whatever happens (2,3,4)

27 Dashing member of school following an armed service (7)

30 Protect U.S. agent from the East with ambition (6)

31 Team in film makes departure (4)

32 Range found in fresco, perhaps (5)

35 Amaze leader of tourists enthralled by source of heat (4)

36 Western couple of journalists are weary (7)

38 Disorder in carnival site close to hut (4)

39 Church dignitary supporting very old revered figure (7)

42 Exaggerate work of a dramatist on the rise (4,2)

45 Insignificant worker at the coalface, it’s said (5)

46 Brief agreement introduced by committee (7)

47 Dance is genuine by the sound of it (4)

48 Completed part of a game of cricket (4)

50 Fearless duke with unusually tough mentality ultimately (7)

52 Squeeze and twist circular object, we’re told (5)

54 Ethel methodically packs protection for the head (6)

56 Outline record of a person’s preferences? (7)

57 Discharge regular characters in team list (4)

59 Shady group besetting ordinary event in the Isle of Man? That’s corrupt (7)

61 Meat dish with time gone is ready for eating (4)

64 Foolish son has misfortune over year (5)

66 Darkness beginning to panic everybody (4)

67 Revolutionary figure turning key is impertinent (6)

69 Artistic work showing attractiveness, needing no introduction (7)

72 Small drying cloth is a let-down sadly after end of lunch (4,5)

73 Renown gained by 50 soldiers in borders of Germany (5)

74 Only meet eccentric carrying black alternative to a purse? (5,4)

79 Discontinue concession around capital of Turkey (4)

81 Execrate section of a meal, nothing less (5)

82 Bureaucratic clerk here spun around grabbing page (3-6)

83 Kiss part of a bottle (4)

85 Improvement after period of decline in spring (6)

86 Strip of wood cut around back of cabin (6)

87 I call bigots out making one become furious (2,9)

DOWN

1 Some beer fortunately in turn is attracting no charge (4)

2 Almost certain regulation to arise for marine mammal (6)

3 Continue to work with male relative around Scottish river (4,2)

4 Our people fell out over daughter that’s fully catered for (4-3)

5 Quickly leave Glaswegian, perhaps, imbibing round (5)

6 Girl had e.g. to change after acquiring new flying apparatus (4-6)

7 Manage to pass (3,2)

8 Fine history possibly associated with a shrub (9)

9 Start work and finish with day gone (7)

10 A little money, pence, for liquid dish (4)

11 Be on island, uplifting place, and go on a spree (4,2,2)

15 Limped around getting depression (6)

21 Perform introduction to this after overturning stick (5)

24 Report again on rally (7)

25 Grow frail with a knee that’s twisted (6)

26 Improve concerning record on course? (6)

28 Strong guy removing top in confines of factory that’s trendy (5)

29 Female pig in this way gaining weight (3)

33 Subcontract foremost of functions with a gesture? (4,3)

34 Miserable person with limited expression turning up among women’s children (6)

37 Amid household work, starts to remove things of an unclean nature (5)

40 Inclined, reportedly, to get napped leather (5)

41 Intrude, bearing rubbish (5,2)

43 One exiting audibly to get crowbar (5)

44 Engineer duped about large and small pool (6)

46 Show fear in Isle of Wight town mostly overlooking river (5)

49 Rugby fellow shot off in an agitated state (7)

51 I’m upset when beset by sanctimonious moral talk (6)

53 A new group of students’ diet? (6) 55 Churl when intoxicated has to stagger (5)

58 Greatly please stickler essentially over colour (6,4)

60 Obtain piece of technology (not half!) (3)

62 Rectangular area for a group of consumers (5)

63 One pursuing own advancement upset caterers around institute (9)

65 Popular term directors often use for passivity (8)

68 Going through crowd in the East End, managed short task (6)

70 Loosely hover around university and college to get coupon (7)

71 Henry and Oscar hated at work impetuous type (7)

75 European for sure avoiding victor in a weird way (6)

76 Expel Northern independent in party (6)

77 Rubber footwear fittingly put

on last part of gangway (5)

78 Party in UK’s lost cachet (5)

80 Tree found in camp in Ethiopia (4)

84 Cut cheek principally and other facial feature (4)