CODE CRACKER
To win one of three prizes of $100, work out which number represents which letter. All letters of the alphabet appear at least once. Fill in the coloured boxes at the bottom to reveal our prize word. Write this answer on the entry coupon.
ACROSS
1 Orange vegetable (6) 4 Agricultural producer (6) 8 Movie theatre (6) 11 Autographed (6)
14 Musical variety show (7) 17 Dusk (7)
18 Demolish, completely ruin (7) 20 Frantic alarm (5)
21 – Banderas, actor (7)
23 Jack –, Johnny Depp pirate character (7) 25 Deliver a speech (5)
26 Police baton (9)
27 Young swans (7) 31 Sand-filled timing device (9) 32 Huge marine mammal (5) 34 Mosquito-borne disease (7) 36 Fruit plantation (7) 38 Pleasantly rounded (5) 41 Motor vehicle (3) 42 Speaker’s stand (7)
44 Pale purplish blue (5) 45 Damp (5)
46 Extreme, drastic (7)
48 Basic bed-linen item (5) 49 Thick air pollution (4)
50 Line for service (5) 51 Self-satisfied (4)
53 Free from dirt (5)
56 Blade fixed to a rifle (7) 57 Without feeling (4)
58 Sum owing (4)
59 Fried Japanese cuisine (7) 63 Distant, isolated (6) 65 Intense snowstorm (8) 67 Second-hand (4) 69 Overcast (6)
73 Fabric (7)
75 Male goose (6)
76 Artistic and architectural style of the 16th century (7) 77 Pleased (4)
80 Juliet’s lover (5) 81 Doomed ocean liner (7) 83 Green leafy vegetable (7) 84 Terrible (5)
86 U2 singer (4) 88 Transgression, crime (7) 89 Two-piece swimsuit (6) 91 Tenth month (7)
94 Pill (6)
96 Naughty child (4) 97 Disrespectfully humorous (8) 98 Gentle wind (6)
102 Width of a gun-barrel (7) 103 Beer serving size (4)
104 Skin complaint (4)
106 First book of the Bible (7) 110 Light wood used in modelmaking (5)
112 Security deposit (4) 113 Sailboat (5)
114 Potato (4)
115 Pink and grey parrot (5) 119 Game of chance (7)
121 Room on a ship (5) 122 Horned pachyderm (5) 123 Team sport (7)
124 Infused herbal drink (3)
125 – Butler, Gone with the Wind hero (5) 127 Versatile kitchen scraper and flipper (7) 128 Queen of the beasts (7)
129 – for You, early Madonna hit (5) 130 Members of a criminal group (9) 133 Underground prison cell (7) 136 With great fervour (9) 138 French farewell (5) 139 Enunciation, clarity of speech (7) 142 – on a Jet Plane,
John Denver song (7) 144 Suffer as a consequence (5) 146 In need of a drink (7) 148 Major river running through western New South Wales (7) 149 Branch of mathematics (7) 151 Grow more dim (6) 152 Burning furiously (6) 153 Canary colour (6)
154 Large champagne bottle (6)
DOWN
1 Pilot’s enclosure (7) 2 Batman’s young companion (5) 3 Foot digit (3)
5 Jennifer –, actress (7) 6 Stone-worker (5)
7 – Starr, the Beatles’ drummer (5) 8 Angry (5)
9 Stealthy Japanese assassin (5) 10 King or queen (7)
11 Take legal action (3)
12 Kurt Cobain’s rock band (7) 13 Aridity (7)
15 Use again (7)
16 Skilled artisan (9) 18 Location of Australia, on the globe (4,5) 19 Temporary solution (7) 22 Climbing plant (3) 24 Domestic animal (3) 27 Big-top entertainment (6) 28 Elegant (8)
29 Gigantic (8)
30 Day off, often due to feigned illness (6) 32 Cardiff’s country (5) 33 Supposed science of turning base metals into gold (7)
35 Send up, satirise (7)
37 Try (7)
39 Mother’s brother (5) 40 Italian corn meal (7)
43 No longer living, as a species (7) 47 Numeric system based on the number ten (7)
49 Location (4)
52 Garden entrance (4)
54 South American river (6)
55 One making first appearance (8) 56 French cap (5)
60 Regular, commonplace (5) 61 Rhythmic flow (7) 62 Dedicated poem (3) 64 Saying, motto (5)
66 Unit of cosmic distance (5,4) 68 Theory of development of species (9)
70 Alpine song (5)
71 Put right (7)
72 Domain of a nobleman ranked between marquess and prince (7) 74 Object of adoration (4) 78 Unauthorised, illegal (7) 79 Food etc. used as a lure (4) 80 Automaton, android (5) 82 Addictive chemical in tobacco (8) 85 Strand, filament (5)
87 – Peace Prize, annual humanitarian award (5) 90 Force of a collision (6) 92 Riverside grasses (5) 93 Spoiled, sour (3)
95 Hold affectionately, cuddle (7) 99 Malaysian currency (7) 100 Doing word (4)
101 Matured (4) 102 Shoemaker (7) 103 Universal cure (7)
105 Blow up (7)
107 Dried grape (7)
108 Keep up, support (8) 109 Swagman’s bundle (8) 111 Milky coffee (5)
116 – Hunter, actress (5) 117 Ridiculous, nonsensical (6) 118 Repudiate, deny relationship (6) 120 Day before today (9) 123 Affectionate attachment to the past (9)
126 Thin paper handkerchiefs (7) 129 Creating genetic copies (7) 130 Given, permitted (7)
131 More clamorous (7)
132 Give in to, yield (7) 134 Mysterious aircraft (1,1,1) 135 Mineral aggregate (3)
136 Doctor –, Boris Pasternak novel, filmed with Omar Sharif in the title role (7) 137 Horizontal spar on a ship’s mast (7)
140 Delhi’s country (5)
141 Medical assistant (5)
142 Exhibitionistic, ostentatiously flashy (coll.)(5) 143 Heavenly messenger (5) 145 From Havana (5)
147 Process hide into leather (3) 150 On the –, fugitive from authorities (3)