CODECRACKER
To win one of two 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 Sliced potato served with fish (5) 4 Volume of maps (5)
6 Thin biscuit served with ice-cream (5)
9 Show, display (7)
12 Cricket field (4)
13 Angus –, AC/DC guitarist (5) 14 Distance around a circle (13) 15 Successful businessperson (5) 16 JS –, baroque composer (4) 17 Cereal grain (3) 18 Portable source of light (5) 22 Sean –, actor (4)
24 Formal appellation (5) 25 Greek god of light (6) 27 Tempest (5)
28 Scottish plaid skirt (4)
29 Car’s instrument panel (9) 33 Change to suit conditions (6) 35 Egypt’s capital (5)
36 – Aviv, Israeli port city (3) 37 Size, weight (4)
39 – Winfrey, talk-show diva (5) 40 Baking facility (4)
41 Star Wars princess (4) 42 Vessel’s steering post (4) 43 Gathering of witches (5)
44 Ale or lager (4)
46 Arm joint (5)
47 Fit and prepared (4) 49 Positive aspect of a situation (6) 52 Flying machine (9)
54 Police officer’s stick (5) 56 Sister’s son (6) 57 Honolulu’s Hawaiian island (4) 58 Italian noodles (5) 60 Nickname of actor Charles Tingwell (3)
61 – Keddie, actress (5) 63 Serious, gruff (5)
64 Men’s fragrance (7) 65 Responsibility (4) 67 Galvanising metallic element (4)
69 Pulsate, often painfully (5) 71 Arid (3)
74 Layered vegetable (5) 75 Retailer’s list of goods (9)
77 – Day, Bill Murray film (9) 78 Australian bigfoot (5)
80 Steal from (3)
82 Hold on tight (5) 84 Painting of a naked subject (4) 85 Chess player’s action (4) 88 Honest, heartfelt (7) 90 Shoulder wrap (5) 91 Concur, assent (5) 93 Firearm (3)
94 Respected within a certain field (5)
95 Mormon state in 49 down (4) 97 Biscuit (coll.) (6)
99 Student (5) 101 Small stone fruit (9)
105 Chronic respiratory
condition (6)
107 – Hathaway, actress (4)
108 Paris’ underground train
system (5)
111 Dame – Lynn, wartime UK
singer (4)
113 Clean a spill (3,2)
114 Carefree frolic (4)
116 Porridge grains (4)
118 Group of three performers (4)
119 Fragrant pale purple flower (5)
120 Peter –, film director (4)
121 – de deux, dance for two (3)
123 Smell (5)
124 Motor vehicle fuel (6)
125 Roman name for Scotland (9)
126 Expression of pain (4)
127 Assertion (5)
129 Emphatic request (6)
133 Fewest in number (5)
135 Reflected sound (4)
137 Recurring motif (5)
139 – Slaver, HG Nelson’s
sportscasting partner (3)
141 Small insect (4)
142 Fine porcelain (5)
143 Thoughtful (13)
145 Mend a hole in clothing (5)
146 Tidings of recent events (4)
147 Undress (7)
148 War and –, epic Tolstoy
novel (5)
149 Expert, skilled (5)
150 Speak, put into words (5)
DOWN
1 Feral North American canine predator (6)
2 Frantic alarm (5)
3 Large bird enclosure (6) 4 Medieval scientist attempting to synthesise gold (9) 5 Texture plaster wall-covering (6)
6 Female spouse (4) 7 Metal-casting industrial facility (5)
8 Cricket scoring unit (3)
9 In all places (10) 10 Fathered, biblically (5) 11 Customer service officer in a bank (6) 15 Musician’s time-keeping device (9)
19 Golden –, Labrador-like dog (9)
20 Whaling spear (7)
21 and 22 down Pictured actress (7,7)
23 Comes close (5)
26 Hair parasite, common in children (5)
30 Welsh grilled cheese snack (7)
31 Wattle (6)
32 Spanish rice dish (6)
34 Melt, defrost (4) 38 Personal cleaning product (4) 44 Kitchen appliance (7) 45 Hasty and ill-considered (4) 48 Cattle sound (3)
49 Joe Biden’s country (1,1,1) 50 Racquet sport played in an enclosed court (6) 51 Indigenous Australian wind instrument (10)
53 Traffic collision (5) 54 Source of dietary fibre obtained from grain husks (4) 55 Mineral aggregate (3)
59 Of the sun (5)
60 Bakery product (5)
62 City in northern Vietnam (5) 64 Disastrous upheaval (9) 66 Jewish temple (9)
68 High quality French brandy (6) 70 Whale’s food-filtering system (6)
72 Give up, cede (5)
73 Bet (5)
76 Roman arena fighters (10)
79 Vacillate, fluctuate (5)
81 Boatswain (5)
83 Lacking suitable skills (5)
86 Prepare a field for planting (6)
87 Deep reddish purple (7)
89 Stealthy Japanese assassin (5)
90 Aquatic mammal (4)
92 Wildebeest (3)
96 – Gardner, actress (3)
97 Rubbish receptacle (3)
98 Ukraine’s capital (4)
100 Kneecap (7)
102 Navigational route (6)
103 Make up on the fly (9)
104 Ship goods overseas (6)
106 Female horse (4)
108 Dairy product (4)
109 Large group of musicians (9)
110 Submarine missile (7)
112 Blow up violently (7)
113 Under lunar illumination (7)
115 Bikie’s ride (10)
117 Tribal symbol (5)
120 Walter –, Breaking Bad
protagonist (5)
122 Religious procedure (9)
128 Calm and serene (6)
130 Llama-like ruminant, raised for
its fleece (6)
131 – Girl, Billy Joel song (6)
132 Castrated male sheep (6)
134 Assumed name or identity (5)
136 Laughing African scavenger (5)
138 Cardiac organ (5)
140 Church recess (4)
144 Serve of alcoholic spirits (3)