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ACROSS

1. Schedule, bus …, eg 6. US actress, … Fanning 11. Floor of a ship 13. Extract juice, … the oranges 15. Accompanies, … to the ball 17. Eat in a restaurant (4,3) 18. Savage person 20. Snuggled 22. Torpor 25. Capital of Texas 27. Resembling cowhide, … skin 28. Made amends 29. Ocean west of Australia 31. Bird’s talon 32. Sit for a photo 34. Provide as a loan 35. Pensive poem 37. Voyage widely, sail the seven … 38. Narrative, yarn 40. Small brown birds 43. Sudden surge, a … in confidence 45. US actress, Liv … 47. Clamorous 48. Printing error 50. Highway, street 52. Straight-backed 53. Call up, … an image 54. More irate 55. Old TV sitcom, Lost In … 58. Favourites, teachers’ … 60. Cut up, had … the timber 62. Originally surnamed 64. Covered walk with shops 67. Nuisances 69. Note equal to two crotchets 70. As soon as possible, do it …! 71. Scruffy, unkempt 74. Merited, deserved 75. Backbone, … column 76. Food shopkeeper 77. Stymie, … their plans 78. Thrifty, … on the ingredients 81. Cocktail snacks, stuffed … 82. Canada’s leaf emblem 83. Dirty mark, grease … 86. Stick to 89. Tried hard, … her best 91. Church recess 93. Gambles 95. Apartments, home … 98. Branch of maths using symbols 99. Young and innocent 101. Spirals 103. Make less strident, … down your response 104. Lump of earth 105. Following, … the meeting 107. Kitchen sifter 109. Instinctively feel 112. Ill-fated French queen, … Antoinette 114. Very tiny amount 115. Exam success 117. Horned viper 118. Movie excerpt, eg 120. UK actress, … Thompson 121. Book and movie, A …With A View 122. Singer of Hello, … Richie 124. Deleted, rubbed out 127. Advertising strategy, radio and TV … 128. Opens, … the buttons 130. Tree such as a pine 133. Chemical used against rioters, eg (4,3) 136. Choice cut of steak (1-4) 137. Act as chair, … over the meeting 138. Made straight 139. Lucky charms 140. Jealous emotion 141. Joined together, the companies … 142. Starters, novices

DOWN

1. Making you want to get up and dance, a … tune (3-7) 2. Taunts, teases 3. Go to bed (4,2) 4. Bruce Springsteen aka The … 5. Wicked, fiendish 6. Cheated, defrauded 7. Large marsupial, red … 8. Awards, winners’ cups 9. Coastal bird, Pacific … 10. Bill Withers hit, … On Me 11. First showing 12. Butter-making machine 13. Tempests 14. Exact middle (4,6) 16. Sinew attaching muscle to bone 19. Farmyard cockerel 21. Greeny-blue shade 23. Afflicts 24. Clumsy 26. Layers of a cake, eg 30. Tidiest 31. Aces and kings, etc 33. Pigs 36. Entrance rug 39. Australian singer, Tina … 41. Potato seed-buds, eg 42. Made a vow, … an oath 43. Dress-up hat, Easter … 44. In the forefront of fashion, very … 45. Liqueur, … Maria 46. Stare suggestively 49. Dog’s foot 51. Mineral aggregate 56. Supposedly universal remedy

57. Charlie’s Angels star, … Diaz 58. Baked dry by the sun 59. Ship’s carrying capacity 61. Conscience-stricken, abashed 63. Female sovereign 65. Ornamental moulding where wall and ceiling meet 66. Weight-watchers 67. Mail workers 68. Small item of information 72. Noah’s boat 73. Dickens character, Tiny … 78. Moves furtively 79. Trainee hospital doctors 80. Australian actor, Guy … 84. Twining shoot 85. Set phrase with a non-literal meaning 86. Building designers 87. Rotary clothesline, Hills … 88. Cunning trick 90. James Bond’s creator, … Fleming 92. Mate, friend 93. Grizzly animal 94. Tribal symbol 96. Frost a cake, eg 97. Very hot water vapour 100. Ships’ salvos 102. Go-between, … officer 106. Paddock, meadow 108. Italian opera composer 110. Listening part of a phone 111. Pampering 113. On every year, an … event 115. Athletics vaulting rod 116. Mischievous children, rascals 118. Be in competition 119. Long jetty 123. Regimental flag 125. Oak-tree nut 126. Adversary 129. Imperial weight measurement 131. Whiting or marlin, eg 132. Source, the … of the problem 134. Breed of fine horse 135. Band of criminals