This week’s Big Crossword
ACROSS
1. Utterly amaze 9. Doing (business) 15. Unconscious 16. Fossilised resin 17. Playful kisses 19. Peruvian pack animal 21. Denim trousers 22. Aircraft gangway 23. Wise guy (4-3) 24. Beatles drummer 25. Entice 27. Probability 29. Takes (exam) 31. Subsequently 33. Sum up 35. Tropical parrot 38. Cylinders 40. Underground hollow 42. Remove completely 43. Chilean mountains 44. Dusting powder 46. Own patch, home ... 48. Grassy areas 49. Tolerate 50. Border 51. Canoe 53. Was painful 55. Pre-metric length unit 56. Cue game 58. Army member 61. Rowing blade 63. Major computer firm (1,1,1) 65. Generous 69. Staring at 71. Insignia 72. Most indistinct 74. California is there (1,1,1) 75. Without help 76. Valuable old item 77. Pertains (to) 78. Unshackle 79. Dad’s lad 80. Proceed (from) 81. Best qualified 84. Verbal communication 87. Sturdily 91. Donkey 93. You ... what you eat 94. Shrivels 97. More trivial 100. Fashionable 101. Unnourished 103. Oil spill 105. Hint 106. Skulk 107. Mocks 108. Conserved 109. German Mrs 110. Arctic shelter 111. Burglary warning 113. Afresh 115. Foreboding 117. Scrumptious 120. Top (section) 122. Concur 124. Chilled 127. Successor 129. Masks 131. Male singing voice 133. Experience (ordeal) 134. FM receiver 136. Spirit contact board 137. Make reparation 138. Large violin 139. Scoundrel 140. Adolescent ( years) 141. Mutiny instigators 142. Revises timetable
DOWN
1. Frenzied 2. LP record 3. Scold 4. Tears 5. Shorted across (of current) 6. Elephant teeth 7. Chinese temple 8. Maple leaf country 9. Divulges 10. Separately 11. Actor, ... Connery 12. Wheedle 13. Unsuitable 14. Of the stomach 18. Flee to wed 20. Hazes 26. Feign 28. Slaked one’s thirst 30. Gandhi’s republic 32. Straddling 34. Champagne bottle stopper 35. Cantaloupe 36. Cattle herder 37. Fritter away 39. Reproduced 41. Of sound system 45. Leotard material 47. Unbiased 49. Door chime 52. Nautical greeting 54. Arrive 56. Once Ceylon, ... Lanka 57. Chest bone 58. Relishes 59. Well thought-out 60. Emerald Isle 62. TV reception poles 64. Gloomier 66. Glaringly obvious 67. Emit (light) 68. Boarding house residents 70. Caller 71. Deserves 73. Treat (cowhide) 75. Purpose 82. Straw bundle 83. Clairvoyance (1,1,1) 85. Wheat spike 86. Prisoner’s quarters 88. Different 89. Count in 90. Pull sharply 92. Brook 94. Candle string 95. Land measure 96. Blusher 98. Like 99. School composition 101. Egg on 102. Explore deeply 103. Sophisticated 104. Type of seaweed 109. Distinctive taste 110. Ignoramus 112. Wall painting 114. Tap-sealing rings 116. Sell to public 118. Unties 119. Cheesy white sauce 121. Conjured up (memories) 123. Monarch’s rule 125. Hag 126. Musical pieces for two 127. Linger 128. Clothes pressers 130. Altogether (2,3) 132. US space agency 135. Destroy (hopes)