SUPER CROSS
For a chance to win one of two prizes of $250, simply solve the crossword to reveal the title of the sequel to The Dry, featuring our pictured star (5,2,6) in the coloured squares. Write this on the entry coupon.
ACROSS
1 Promised, swore (5) 4 Mushrooms and toadstools (5) 6 Clenched hands (5) 9 Sheer silk fabric (7) 12 Medieval spear (4) 13 Connection hub (5) 14 Series of French Revolution executions (5,2,6)
16 Monsters –, 2001 animated feature film (3)
17 At a distance (4) 18 Computer symbols (5) 19 Spread, scatter (5)
23 Whose Line – Anyway?, improv show (2,2) 25 Explosive (1,1,1)
26 Bets (6)
28 Attire to help one blend into the background (10) 29 Heavy military guns (9) 32 Crude huts (6)
34 Midnight – Oasis, track (2,3)
35 Pudding starch (4) 37 Variety night (8)
40 When Will – Loved, hit for
Linda Ronstadt (1,2) 41 Umpire (abbr.) (3)
43 Oven glove (4)
44 – mode, of the fashion (1,2) 45 Host (5)
46 Skeleton scans (1-4) 47 Of practical value (6) 48 – Brooks, comedy film maker (3)
49 – Done, tea towel designer (3)
50 – dish, laboratory saucer (5) 52 – beloved, cliche wedding words (6)
54 Slack, uncontained (5) 55 Facts, gen (abbr.) (4) 57 Russian emperor (4)
58 See, witness (7)
62 – Pratchett, late fantasy author (5) 63 1995-2005 drama series set in the US navy (3)
64 – Fisher, Australian actress (4) 66 Life –, novel and film (2,2) 67 Secular (4) 68 Mischievous sprite in
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (4) 71 Bishopric (3)
72 Variety of orange (5) 73 Hard Swiss cheese (7) 77 Advertising light gas (4) 78 Correct, genuine (4) 80 Viscous (5)
81 Grab roughly (6) 82 Australian native dog (5) 83 Popular card game (3) 85 Unit of work (3)
87 Had a spat (6)
89 – Birch, Ghost World actress (5)
93 ANZAC Day game (3-2) 94 The – Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway novella (3) 95 Number-matching gambling game (4) 96 Small serve of booze (3) 97 Expression of displeasure (3) 98 Personifies (8)
101 – Hayworth, Hollywood actress (4)
102 Horton – A Who!, animated film (5) 104 Frozen polar mass (3,3) 106 – Liaisons, US film (9) 107 Surrounding, encompassing (10)
110 Just What I –, hit for The Cars (6)
113 – Pickles, Tommy’s dad in Rugrats (3)
115 George –, former star of CSI (4) 117 Overweight (5) 119 Flower stalks (5)
121 Idris –, actor (4) 122 Promissory note (1,1,1) 123 Military officer in charge of rations and equipment (13) 125 – Irwin, Bindi’s mother (5)
126 Charged particles (4) 127 Pizza variety with all the toppings (7) 128 Rowdy lout (5) 129 Show to be 78 across (5) 130 Drug derived from poppies (5) DOWN 1 Disappear (6)
2 Draw forth (5) 3 Uncultured masses (8) 4 America –, Barbie star (7) 5 One round of baseball (6) 6 Body which governs the soccer World Cup (1,1,1,1) 7 Glasses (5)
8 Man’s title of respect (3) 9 – Applegate, Dead to Me star (9)
10 – upon, palm off on someone else (5) 11 Subtlety, distinction (6) 15 Alpine singers (9) 20 Baked meal (5) 21 Indigenous spear-throwing device (7) 22 Amazing, fantastic (7)
23 The Only Way –, UK reality series (2,5)
24 Toss (5)
27 Arouse, titillate (6) 30 Jungles (11)
31 2011 drama series starring Margot Robbie (3,2) 33 Greenish blue (4) 36 Attributing, imputing (9) 38 – Night Like This, Kylie single (2,1)
39 Small wine barrel (4) 42 Crumbly Greek salad cheese (5) 44 Apportions (6) 47 Unfasten, open a closure (4) 50 Equal, colleague (4) 51 Alternate name for the jack in lawn bowls (5) 53 Melbourne’s river (5) 54 – Sayer, singer (3)
56 One of the front two on a dog (7)
59 Boyfriend (4)
60 Cute creature from the Star Wars universe (4) 61 Chiwetel –, actor (7) 64 Gooey (4)
65 Stare lasciviously (4) 68 Remains in limbo (5) 69 Gold Coast suburb on the NSW border (11) 70 Subsides (5)
71 Is prominent or conspicuous (6,3) 74 Archaic preposition (4) 75 Prepared for publication (6) 76 Large deer (3)
78 Dull sound of an impact (4) 79 Unskilled (5) 84 Miranda –, actress (4) 86 Invited visitor (5)
87 High musical register (4) 88 Peppy, spirited (9)
90 Yes, in Paris (3) 91 Allocates a homework task (7)
92 Jodi Lyn –, US actress (1’5) 93 Submarine missile (7) 94 Shakespeare’s Moor of Venice (7)
99 Bawdy cabaret (9) 100 Tennis score, 40-all (5) 103 – Lennox, singer with the Eurythmics (5) 105 Pictured star (4,4) 108 Entourage, clique (7) 109 Portable ice chests (6) 111 Pack up and leave (6) 112 Monotony (6) 114 Remove from power (5) 116 Roadside gully (5) 118 Censoring tone(5)
120 Deal – Deal, game show (4) 124 No particular one (3)