GIANT CROSSWORD

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

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

12 Maybe, Dawn has money

for a narrow loaf (6,5)

13 Gentle medic, one with

case for ligature (6)

14 A mood around college

immediately (2,4)

16 Affectedly quaint material

for a jacket that’s cut (4)

17 Bias I’m out to change, being

of an aspiring nature (9)

18 Performer ahead gets

to behave badly (3,2)

19 By the sound of it,

proper ceremony (4)

20 Test’s due to be arranged around home firstly for a decorator’s cover (4,5)

22 Violent person in area

around fairway (5)

23 Exotic caftan? It’s wonderful (9)

27 Take up again ordinary

part after study (7)

30 Slogan that’s repeated

among German traders (6)

31 Female relative making

gibe after losing face (4)

32 Calculate good period in

uniform? The opposite! (5)

35 Large-scale European film (4)

36 Unsettle putrid criminal

hiding last of offences (7)

38 Enjoy food in restaurant

amid round in Exeter (4)

39 Make merry in estate,

say, by river (7)

42 What clerics do with religious education installed in pliable chap (6)

45 Retired Dane ran partly in stadium (5) 46 Ongoing stream (7)

47 Circular tent truly transformed

with line gone (4)

48 A church society for experts (4)

50 Appease Mike and Oliver

about condition (7)

52 Stage has curious shape (5)

54 New racket in, say, finale (6)

56 Less used route lately

marginalised in general (7)

57 Backing for fine record in

course-based activity (4)

59 Put back note in front

of retail outlet (7)

61 Start to overstate operations

— oh dear! (4)

64 A person ending in

comfortable residence (5)

66 Ring displayed by friend

— and gemstone (4)

67 Hurriedly move to get

southern Indian dish (6)

69 Washroom duly ran

in a different way (7)

72 A councillor in charge around old club describing highly agile performers? (9)

73 Flinch with cold in port, say (5)

74 Bulb and brace replaced in vehicle

with a domed canopy (6,3)

79 Cotton on part of a tree (4)

81 Hard Thai manipulated

foot-operated cymbals (2-3)

82 Criminal trades fur in

a terrible fashion (9)

83 Headwear first to emerge

— and cloak (4)

85 Agreement made by

number in varied seats (6)

86 Evergreen shrub for Stan? (6)

87 Feel sole son when stirred gets

to become engrossed (4,7)

DOWN

1 Team from Cheshire

town in audience (4)

2 Ned bit confused being behind with payments (2,4) 3 Covering offering warmth amid quiet (6)

4 Role MP played around start of business creates difficulty (7)

5 A coat for tourist in borders of Turkey that’s raggedy (5)

6 A drug a Scot turned out for a shoreline patroller (10)

7 Taint that’s damaged towering figure (5)

8 Have cooked starter in moderation (9)

9 A part devised in Western hotel for hostile course of action (7) 10 Dismal river in Portugal, nothing less (4)

11 Severely critical introduction to survey about slight obsession (8) 15 Withdraw from part of

East London in public (3,3) 21 Exhaust milk and drink without lid (3,2)

24 How day’s represented as indistinct (7)

25 Dung found by chap on Yorkshire river (6)

26 Collect Regan after work with Rex (6) 28 Democrat with a limited talk in Russian country house (5)

29 Stuff in a person’s home (3) 33 Leader of units in NATO country, say, by custom (7)

34 Role in awful lament (6)

37 A tyre that’s burst making one emotion-filled (5)

40 Alarm spread in rest with time gone (5)

41 Start to become more advanced (7) 43 Park and old city come back to one’s mind (5) 44 Modest TV wildlife presenter (6) 46 One living in tent wasting money in antic (5)

49 Sadly a don’s totally unpleasant type (2-3-2) 51 Independent following ordinary liberal in U.S. city? I wish! (2,4)

53 Ridiculous U.S. bard

in a different guise (6)

55 Overwhelm doctor

now after surgery (5)

58 Foul flies buzzing around

small coal, say (6,4)

60 Long time in another academy (3) 62 Stop in car, getting

a hooded jacket (5)

63 Lively pair redirected

light in second yard (9)

65 Support existed with

hospital in aftermath (8)

68 Male relative shortly on

poster exposed to view (6)

70 Companion in disorganised team

beginning to employ heavy knife (7) 71 Sign of respect is brief?

Certainly on reflection (7)

75 Arab enters gaunt

aristocrat’s estates (6)

76 Cover November in

English legal event (6)

77 Play a guitar in street

on Hebridean island (5)

78 Academic figure supporting

commercial accessory (3-2)

80 Some struggle naturally

in narrow valley (4)

84 Heap in country house (4)