Win! $1000 MONSTER CROSS
The theme of this Monstercross is cheese, and all the highlighted picture clues refer to this topic. When you’ve filled in the whole puzzle, the letters in the lilac squares, reading left to right and top to bottom, will spell a word related to the puzzle theme. Write this word on the entry coupon.
HOW YOU CAN WIN
ACROSS
1 Grilled Greek cheese
in box A (7) 5 Past events (7)
8 Rope loop (5)
9 Bruce Willis film (3,4)
11 JRR ---, author (7) 13 Aquatic mammal (5) 14 Sir --- Botham, English cricketer (3)
15 Yes, in French (3) 16 Rushing sound (6) 18 Kick out of a flat (5) 19 Feudal farmer (6) 22 Spotted wild cats (7) 23 Thug (7)
24 Rectangle (6)
26 Teatime cakes (6) 28 Mischievous child (6) 31 Counsel (6)
33 One in the know (7) 36 Of the brain (8)
39 Prison room (4) 41 Ecstatic, absorbed (4) 43 Lady ---, pop singer (4) 45 Period of sunshine (3) 46 Human-like robot (7) 49 Refuse (4)
50 Out of breath (6)
54 Ship of the desert (5) 55 Marks correct (5) 60 Factory supervisor (7) 61 Holey cheese used on
sandwich in box B (5) 62 Fronded plants (5)
63 Meditate on (7)
64 --- Baba, hero from
Arabian Nights (3) 65 Short light sleep (6) 66 Food for livestock (6) 69 Customer (6)
72 Coeliac allergen (6) 74 Shade of brown (4) 75 Magnificence (9) 76 Gave an income (4) 78 Duration (4)
80 Spicy Italian sausage often used in pizza (9) 81 Dutch cheese with
red rind in box C (4) 83 Beauty service (6) 85 89 92 95 97 98 99 Sand trap (6)
Mark of disgrace (6) Ottawa's country (6) Bullfight call (3) Adversity (7)
Sacred images (5)
--- DeGeneres, talk show host (5)
100 Mint family herb (7) 101 Detest (5)
102 Tina ---, singer (5) 103 Bawdy, ribald (6)
107 Jetty (4)
108 Team leader (7) 111 Climbing plant (3) 112 Venomous snakes (4) 114 Lachrymose leak (4) 115 Moist (4)
117 Orthodontic device (8) 120 Response inciters (7) 123 Breathe out (6)
126 Get into (6)
130 Sovereign state (6) 133 Ruckus (6)
134 Wiped out (7)
135 Eyelash makeup (7) 136 Culmination (6)
137 Haul with effort (5) 138 Start again, resume (6) 139 Nickname for
Stewart (3)
140 Cut a lawn (3) 141 Improvise (2,3)
142 Eight sided figure (7) 143 Twilight (7)
144 Chillier (5) 145 Soft Italian cheese in
box D (7)
146 Singin' in ---, musical movie (3,4)
DOWN
1 Small prickly animal (8) 2 All in agreement (9) 3 Jakarta's country (9) 4 Creed, tenet (8) 5 Engaged (9)
6 Turkish WWI site (9) 7 Thesaurus listings (8) 10 Fashion spectacles (7) 12 Mental capability (9) 16 Western US state (7) 17 Leers at (5) 20 Insignificant (5)
21 Got cosy (7)
25 Indicate assent (3) 27 Actor's prompt (3) 29 Primate (3)
30 --- Joye, Australian entertainer (3) 32 Thin pasta (10) 34 Mount ---, Queensland mining area (3) 35 Bequeath (5)
37 Dashed, bolted (3)
38 Pub's drink area (3)
39 Printer's blue (4)
40 Citrus fruit (4)
42 Grated cheese in box E, often eaten with pasta (8) 44 Dynamo (9)
46 Power to attract (6) 47 Conscientious (7) 48 Group of classical musicians (9) 49 Insufficient (9)
51 Small hotels (4) 52 Dance club (5) 53 Desiccated (5)
56 Glossy fabric (5)
57 Jane Austen novel (4) 58 Russian ruler (4)
59 Large scale film (4) 67 Handheld receptacle for swept dirt (7) 68 Overshadow (7) 70 Sentinel (7)
71 Lobe jewellery (7) 73 Cherub (5)
77 Behaviour (9) 79 Computer CPU (9) 82 Theatrics (9) 83 Crumbly cheese in box F used in Greek salad (5) 84 92 Across province (7) 86 Cosmos (8)
87 Laughing kingfisher (10)
88 Diana ---, Supremes member (4)
89 Prophet (4)
90 Loafer (5)
91 Subtract (5)
93 Declare (4)
94 Keep in custody (6) 96 Bean curd (4)
104 Notion, thought (4) 105 Witty remark (4) 106 North African country (5) 108 Constantly recurring (7)
109 Oolong, eg (3)
110 Tiny particle (3) 112 Intention (3) 113 English blue cheese
in box G (7)
114 Application of medicine (9)
115 One of the Seven Dwarfs (3)
116 Wife's title (3)
118 --- Frutti, song (5) 119 Wedding words (1,2) 121 Money due (1,1,1) 122 Illegally take the throne (5)
124 Retrospect (9) 125 Northern European country (9) 127 Soft French cheese in box H with a white rind (9)
128 In another place (9)
129 African language (7)
131 Adjacent property to yours (4,4)
132 Military clergyman (8) 133 Bitter green herb (8)