PUZZLES

GIANT Across

1. Fan (7)

5. Ascend (5)

8. Contented (7)

12. Pledge (4)

13. Express gratitude (5)

15. Masculinity (7)

17. Legal defence (5)

19. Finish equal (3)

20. Spoil (3)

21. Conical tent (5)

22. An indirect implication (8)

23. Gaunt (7)

25. Agreed by all (9)

28. Abandon (6)

31. Streamlined (5)

35. Nautical greeting (4)

36. Correct (5)

37. Breathe in (6)

39. Financial inspection (5)

40. Arrange methodically (5)

43. Act of betrayal (7)

45. Pair (3)

46. Alien object (1,1,1)

47. W

49. Beg (5)

52. Debonair (5)

53. Caution (6)

54. Orchestral instrument (5)

55. Church recess (4)

57. Scrawny (5)

60. Depression (6)

64. Boundary (9)

66. Downcast (7)

68. Hunger (8)

69. Readjust (5)

72. Male sheep (3)

73. Lout (3)

75. Slow-moving piece of music (5)

76. Swagger, boastfulness (7)

78. Courageous (5)

79. Small land mass (4)

80. Intellectual (colloq) (7)

81. Decree (5)

82. Component (7)

Down

1. Fasten or join (6)

2. Defensive ditch (4)

3. Garden implement (4)

4. Prompt (6)

5. Formally rebuke (7)

6. Cow’s low (3)

7. Speak ill of (8)

8. Drug dispenser (8)

9. W

10. Omit (4)

11. Dead (8)

14. Persistently irritate (6)

16. Speck (5)

18. Shaft of light (4)

22. Annoy (3)

24. Everyone (3)

26. Annoyed (5)

27. Exaggerate (9)

29. Prophet (4)

30. Speed contest (4)

31. Gaze (5)

32. Attempt (9)

33. Sports equipment (3)

34. Rebuke (5)

38. Circle (4)

41. Female deer (3)

42. Discourteous (4)

43. The whole amount (5)

44. Destitute (5)

48. Shock (5)

50. Look suggestively (4)

51. Share a boundary (4)

52. Stitch (3)

54. Convert into smoke (8)

55. Small space rock (8)

56. Clamber (8)

58. Cause to be loved or liked (6)

59. Stain (3)

61. First in importance (5)

62. Pull out (7)

63. Prompt (3)

65. Region (4)

66. Walked with long steps (6)

67. Falsehood (6)

70. Work determinedly at something (4)

71. Accurate (4)

73. Musical instrument (4)

74. Diminish (4)

77. Communist (colloq) (3)