THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Bird’s flying limb 4. Cuisine from Bangkok, … food 7. Consumed, … a meal 9. Round door handle 13. Small metric weight 16. Coastline 17. Close pals, … buddies 19. Make yourself comfortable 20. Sound volume increase 25. Guiding light 26. Give counsel 27. Closer to 28. Breakaway religious groups 30. Relatives, family … 31. Become ready to harvest 34. Aquatic organisms, blue-green … 35. Ode or sonnet 36. Flat, home … 37. Narratives 39. Tavern, pub 41. The whole lot, … of it 44. On the floor above 46. Roman gown 48. Wooden strip 49. Searches unknown territory 52. Clairvoyant 53. Grime 54. At the bottom, the … level 58. Large rod used as a lever 59. Bamboo-eating animals 62. Sports umpire (abbrev) 63. Musician married to Nicole Kidman, … Urban 65. Watched secretly 67. Night before, on the … of 68. Draw up at the roadside (4,2) 69. Sharp exhalation through the nostrils 71. Drinking vessel 73. Laboured, worked hard 74. Soft French caps 76. Master lock-opener (4,3) 77. Column bases 78. Shuts, … the door 80. Coddled 82. Change over time 84. Show a response 85. Restlessness, anxiety 87. Is equipped with 88. Confess, … guilt 90. Jungle clan, eg
91. Zoolander2 actor and director, … Stiller 93. Unmarried 96. Cordial political understanding 97. Beds of sedimentary rock 100. Song, …Therainbow 102. Rampant 104. Good state of order 106. Ballot choice 108. Just manage 111. Gathered and combined, … the files 112. Mineral-bearing rock 114. Carton 115. Revealed everything, … all 118. Sketched 119. Salmon-coloured 120. Clenched hands 122. Take an exam again 124. Give intense joy to 125. Draws in by vacuum 127. Offhand, … remark 129. Royal headdresses 132. Radiator, electric … 133. Not prejudiced either way, a … party 136. Place of safety, haven 137. Trusty mount 138. Written lament
139. Austinpowers movie star, … Myers 140. Classroom table 141. Part of a circle 142. Distribute, … out 143. Former Russian emperor
DOWN
1. Do the dishes, … up 2. Brown powdered spice 3. Outhouses 4. Double-crossers 5. Sewn bottom edges of skirts 6. Under the weather 8. Prickly emblem of Scotland 9. Sports gear 10. Double-reed musical instrument 11. Genuine, make a … offer (4,4) 12. Having had no alcohol
14. Househusbands star, … Griffiths 15. Repair, fix 16. Rock roofing tile 18. Deserve, earn 21. Allow, … them to enter 22. Wasting time 23. Having no ethics 24. Be rude to 28. Gradient 29. Cuban hero, Fidel … 32. Many-storeyed Eastern temple 33. More modern, … model 38. Extremely serious 40. Small groove 42. Animal dens 43. Length from thumb to little finger 44. Soviet Union (1,1,1,1) 45. Unflappable (4-9) 47. In the area, somewhere … here 48. Residential area of city 50. Respond when provoked (4,2,3,4) 51. Eye inflammation 55. Celebrated (4-5) 56. Speed across snow 57. Portable canvas shelter 59. Clothesline fasteners 60. Commotion 61. Tibetan Buddhist leader (5,4) 64. Libya’s capital 66. Australian State leader 69. Drainage channel 70. Entice, lure 72. Gorilla 75. Employ 78. Give way 79. Simmer angrily 80. Picturesque 81. Ice-cream containers 83. US actor, … Kilmer 86. Fishing trawl 87. Children’s TV show, Giggleand… 89. Luciano Pavarotti style of voice 90. Musical pace 92. Require 94. Spearlike flowers 95. Mixture of black and white 98. Govern 99. Heart-rending 101. TV series, The…ofdibley 103. Amazing deeds 105. Veiled 106. A, E, I, O and U 107. Iranian capital 109. Deliberately vague 110. Regard as likely to happen 111. Kiss and cuddle 113. TV motoring show (3,4) 116. Notice, … on 117. Chops up, … the vegies 120. Pernickety, picky 121. Moves furtively 123. Open pies, apple … 125. Drawbacks 126. Fake, bogus 128. Political assistant 130. Cotton holder 131. Middle Eastern prince 134. From the same family, of that … 135. Sorrowful