The Colossus

COMPILED BY CHRISTINE LOVATT

ACROSS

1. Thrives 6. Intermittently (2,3,3) 11. Ferociously, fiercely 16. Completed

21. Holy statue

22. Mixed, – with poison 23. Egg-shaped 24. Telephonist, switchboard –

25. Movie actor (4,4) 26. Sending electronic messages

27. Abuse (3-5)

28. Travel along runway 29. Brand of cola

31. Hot water dispensers 32. More enthusiastic 36. Reassemble, – forces 37. US property broker 38. Coloured eye parts 41. Follow on

44. Very angry 45. Assignments 48. Fire-fighting unit 49. To the rear of a ship 52. Dwell

56. Immediacy

57. Muffled laugh 58. Inflated self-esteem 61. River Danube city 62. First, – response 63. Undersized

64. Sidestep. dodge

65. Nazi police 66. Non-professional 67. Female cinema attendant

71. Clingy

73. Slide smoothly 75. Impressionable (6,3) 80. Distribute cards 82. Imposing building 83. Soviet Union (1,1,1,1) 85. Resurface

86. Carved the meat 88. Petite

90. Castle

91. Derisive smile

93. Back pain

94. Sentiments

95. Chile’s capital

96. Narrow fissure

97. Low river dam 99. La-di-da

100. Earnest

104. Large area of land 105. Scowl

106. Welsh vegetables 107. US Navy officers 111. Grey-green shade 113. Fertility treatment (1,1,1)

114. Murmur like a dove 115. Tusk material 117. Prince Charles’ youngest brother 118. California’s San –

121. Set free (3,2)

122. Sits for portrait 125. Mauve shrubs 126. Geological ages 127. A single time

129. Prayer’s final word 131. Too, plus

132. Technical language 135. Beach crustacean

136. Put in quarantine 139. Alehouses, inns 140. Prattle

144. Sober

145. Secret supply

146. Field hospital worker 147. Embroiders

148. Old name for a town councillor

149. Praise highly

150. Pond surface growth, blue-green –

152. Opera singer, – donna 154. Nation, – Leone 157. Competent

158. Declare again

162. Leave out

163. Maxims

166. Successor

167. Sunrise direction 169. Unchanged (2,2) 171. Antlered deer

172. Music recording venue

173. Signifies

175. Map

176. Whinny

179. Not anyone 180. Long-legged

182. Cheerio!

183. Coffee’s rival 184. Confuse, – wits 186. Lodger

189. Knighthood

190. Coarse string

191. Move on knees 192. Endeavour

196. Hyphen

197. Loose flesh

198. Droplet

199. Juvenile

201. Feverish state 202. Marmalade fruits 203. Throbbed with pain 204. Toddlers (4,4) 205. Picasso or Dali 208. Houston folk, eg 210. Serene, peaceful 211. Scarper

212. Breezier

213. Holdall, – bag 215. Warship 219. Congratulatory cheer 221. Unnourished

223. Spoke to, – the crowd 227. Kittens’ dads

228. Shied away from 230. Jewish pastor

231. Lag behind

232. At a greater distance 233. Oppose, – change 234. Jungle knife

238. Tooth surface

239. Beer or wine, eg 240. Auctioneer’s gavel 243. Nook, alcove

246. Geckos, eg

247. Stomach sore

250. Beef cut (1-4) 251. Comedy sketches 253. Plant pests

256. Manage, – the project 257. Insistent

258. Cope, – with (4,2) 262. Creative thought 263. Goes without food 266. Iridescent gem 268. Relieving 269. Close-fitting brimless headwear item 270. Criticises (4,4) 271. Feminine, womanly 272. Sure-fire thing

273. Tree on Lebanese flag

274. Ireland (poetic)

275. Kings and queens 276. Distrusts

277. Perseveres 278. Population counts

DOWN

1. Nickname for cheap wine

2. Very overweight 3. Calm

4. Melee

5. Remnants

6. Flaming (2,4)

7. Claims

8. Undress

9. Beating wings

10. Price of passage 11. Beholds

12. Fans

13. Fauna

14. Radiated, – heat 15. Dairy product 16. Blacks out 17. Misfortunes 18. Entomb

19. Party, kick up your – 20. Calendar entries 30. Braid

33. Chores, run –

34. Girl’s sleepwear 35. Bureaucratic restrictions (3,4) 38. Tel Aviv native 39. Incompetently 40. Absconder

42. Astronaut, – Armstrong

43. Said

46. Retribution taker 47. Martial art, – fu 49. Munitions depot 50. Track down

51. Passed along

53. Came into view

54. From Baghdad

55. Tallest mountain 59. Speeches

60. Arranges in list 67. Unfurls

68. Chieftain

69. Fill in for

70. Dish-drying cloth (3,5) 72. Abolish

74. Overalls

76. Heat wave

77. Forms a foam

78. Gazing lustfully 79. Disperses, – fears 81. Chaperoned 84. Summary

87. Expulsion from home 89. Gazelle or impala 91. Sniffs sadly 92. Wet-weather garment 98. Budget accommodation, backpackers’ – 101. Ganges country 102. Metallic ringing 103. Mouse or rat 108. Stockings

109. Cove

110. Specialised, – market 112. Inventiveness 116. Expunged

119. Grumpy

120. Middleman (2-7) 123. Deliberately (2,7) 124. Hugging

128. Codes

130. Tampers

132. Doorposts

133. Roof junction 134. Academy Award 137. Unseats

138. Ethiopia’s Addis – 141. Onward, up –

142. Guitar sound

143. Grades

151. Pakistani city 153. Iron-attracting bar 155. Lead-in

156. Plane detector system

159. And so forth (2,6) 160. Heartbreaking

161. Frayed 164. Leisurely walk 165. Eventually become, – as (3,2) 168. Fireproof substance 170. Inert

173. Legendary 174. Altitude-measuring instrument

177. Lifeless, – object 178. Flag’s mourning position (4-4) 181. Passionately

185. Toiled

186. Intolerant

187. Quantities

188. Sceptic

193. Apprentice

194. Jumbo champagne bottles

195. Wrestled

200. Financial, – policy 201. Devote, – yourself 206. New beginning 207. Be unfaithful to (3-4) 208. Legal guardian, eg 209. Nodes

211. Brittle

214. Cattle ID tag, eg 216. Wrap

217. Libyan capital 218. Arduous

220. Photo book

222. Sailor’s SOS rocket 224. Down-to-earth philosophy

225. Reversal in progress 226. Altered, – text

229. Valley, dale

232. Sensed emotion 235. Prehistoric relic, eg 236. Owl calls

237. Cherish

241. Tree-lined streets 242. Light German wine 244. Sections of legal document 245. Silhouettes

248. Obtains by begging 249. Bakes meat

251. Peach pits

252. Sloping font

253. Startle

254. Famous beauty,

– of Troy

255. Laundry machine, tumble –

259. Deep chasm 260. Lengthy movies 261. Kilns

262. Imperial linear unit 264. Gorillas, eg

265. Ambush

267. Narrow road, back – Solution in next month’s issue.