The Colossus

ACROSS

1. Overjoyed

6. Broke, – promise 11. Rapidly 16. Characteristic tastes 21. Prince Edward, – of Wessex

22. Related to warships, eg

23. North American Great Lake

24. Fluid level tester 25. Emotional eruption 26. Lack of feeling 27. Opiate

28. Potter’s oven

29. Slashes, – at 31. Complain, – and groan

32. Fairground car 36. Sceptic

37. Brave woman 38. Warning bells 41. Seaweed

44. Distribute 45. Nose-related 48. Margarita liquor 49. Muffle, – the sound 52. Goal-kicker 56. Unsightliest 57. Mountaineer’s tool (3,3)

58. Live-in lover (2,5) 61. Motor

62. Classic, – car, eg 63. Slipped up

64. Head monk

65. Applied therapy to, – the patient 66. Discolours, – the paper

67. Exercise club 71. Mushrooms and toadstools

73. Faint shade, – of colour

75. Small gardening shears

80. Ventilates

82. Bed attire

83. Impetuous 85. 12-month-old animal 86. Tinting hair, eg 88. Crafted anew 90. Calmly

91. Blood vessels 93. Declare approval of, support

94. Passenger lift

95. Large star clusters 96. Roman XV

97. Shop light, – sign 99. Abode

100. Spattered

104. Happen next

105. Encore!

106. Crop up 107. Enrols

111. Oxen harnesses

113. Mesh trap

114. Toddler, tiny –

115. Hearty

117. Blackout, power – 118. Fashion sense

121. Furious, angry 122. Painter’s tripod

125. Peru beasts

126. Baby filly or colt 127. Pagan statue

129. Croak

131. Until, – – now (2,2) 132. Seen-before sensation (4,2)

135. Slender

136. Best approximation, – thing to

139. Basketball ring 140. Hammered, – in

144. Nom de plume

145. Clutch

146. Goodbye

147. Marvellous!

148. Native American tribe 149. Prize

150. Respite (3-2)

152. Panache

154. Aromas

157. NZ symbol bird

158. Nieces and –

162. Terrible tsar

163. Furry aquatic mammals

166. Retained

167. Henpecks

169. Leave out, – name 171. Timber

172. Breakfast food 173. Assailed

175. Bengal feline

176. Allude

179. Drink alcohol

180. Scientist, – Curie 182. Cocktail, Mai – 183. Knight’s title 184. Pyromaniac’s crime 186. Recording period, eg 189. –, beta, gamma 190. US New England

State

191. Religion of Mecca 192. Down payment 196. Divisible by two, – number

197. Frog habitat

198. Cherubic

199. Visionaries

201. Skin cancer

202. Dream

203. Lodge firmly

204. Cutlet (4,4)

205. Trendiest

208. Trouble

210. Rectory

211. She was, they – 212. Whaling spear 213. Unclothed

215. Tourist

219. Olive farm, eg 221. Straighten

223. Muscle kneaders 227. Staggering

228. Ill-bred, coarse 230. Colloquialism

231. Enamel

232. Evaded, – duty

233. Kilt pattern

234. Skilled performer 238. Detest

239. Movie preview

240. Flock of geese

243. Vipers

246. Refereed

247. Verges

250. Inclusive of costs (3-2) 251. African republic,

Sierra –

253. Maxims

256. Crocheted blankets, eg

257. WWll Nazi police 258. Knife covering 262. Receive, – a salary 263. Devonshire tea bun 266. Drench

268. Wet-weather garment

269. Ghastly

270. Poison remedy 271. Eighteen, –, twenty 272. Magnitude

273. Bake meat, eg

274. Tatters

275. Globules

276. Remodelled

277. Evaluates

278. Prank

DOWN

1. World-weary 2. Two-footed

3. Supple

4. Narrow part of bottle 5. Removing, – away 6. Golden-haired woman

7. Rave about

8. Tallied

9. Preserve as sacred 10. Statistics

11. Subsided

12. Most luxurious 13. Official boycott 14. Check off one by one 15. Servile aides (3,3) 16. Decisive rounds

17. Bony

18. Outspoken

19. Absolute, – nonsense 20. Religious cults 30. Country, – Rica 33. Unhealthy fatness 34. Greedy guts

35. Slanders

38. Algiers is there

39. Enliven

40. Misinterpret 42. Shoestring

43. Tennessee’s neighbour State

46. Grief

47. Parent’s sister

49. Cook chips, eg (4-3) 50. Kitchen smock 51. Whirling, – water

53. Beer mat

54. Famous outlaw, – Hood

55. Renovated tyre 59. Cinema regular 60. Coagulating

67. Hot springs

68. Wind like a river 69. Pollen sensitivity

70. Sly suggestion 72. Pointlessly

74. Gladdens

76. Failure of nerve (4,4)

77. Discreet

78. Disrobe

79. Proverbs

81. Indolence

84. Conch or cowrie 87. Tidied up

89. Comes forth

91. Explosive in nature 92. Ambles

98. Charity fete, eg

101. Prig

102. Ethiopia’s Addis – 103. Long steady look 108. Sheer hosiery 109. Baghdad citizen, eg 110. Copy outline of 112. Malaysian capital

(5,6)

116. Surplus

119. Chatty

120. Chauffeured vehicle 123. Goddess of love 124. Acquit

128. Continuous

130. Disbelief in deities 132. Whisky nips

133. Fruit extract

134. Crypt

137. Fable writer

138. Compere

141. Aside, – from

142. Depart

143. Extinct birds

151. Arctic native 153. Antiseptic solution 155. Sloping channel

156. Twig shelters

159. Guess

160. Scottish dish 161. Deteriorated 164. Forbidden

165. Jewish teacher 168. Clips on 170. Annoyance

173. Lanky person 174. Backer

177. Pursuing

178. Rioted

181. Rambling tale 185. Anomalies

186. Equine complexes 187. Exhaling audibly 188. Illegal

193. Mollify

194. Swirls

195. Wobbles

200. Cleverest

201. Tunes

206. Bickering

207. Related to heat 208. Tore, – stocking 209. Metal chimneys 211. Grapple

214. Strive to equal 216. Disregarded 217. Calling like an owl 218. Sofas

220. Yet to be paid, amount –

222. Idiotic, – remark 224. Conspires

225. Kiev is there 226. Component 229. Difficult

232. Spurn

235. Relieve of anxieties 236. Snow house 237. Divergent courses 241. Fishermen

242. Dad’s dad

244. Aversion

245. Motives

248. Free

249. Carpenter’s smoothing tool 251. No-hopers 252. Marmalade fruit 253. Bitterly pungent 254. Mexican friend 255. Surpass

259. “Laughing” African scavenger

260. Sports stadium 261. Thus

262. Sunrise direction 264. Lump of earth 265. US space agency (1,1,1,1)

267. Affectionate peck Solution in next month’s issue.