THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Actress, Scarlett … 6. School students 11. Highly strung 13. Reese Witherspoon movie, Sweet Home … 15. Trespass

17. Angled, tilted 18. Beyond Earth, outer … 20. Rushing stream 22. Smiles affectedly 25. Used a video camera 27. Liquid-filled mattress 28. Takes into the family 29. Bickers, rows 31. Romantic suitor 32. Cloth scraps

34. Even handed

35. Snip with scissors 37. Sound of impact

38. Dull pain

40. Cook in an oven 43. Bring up to date 45. Downward distance 47. Cyclist, Cadel … 48. Timber, radiata … 50. Deep red gemstone 52. Makes money, … a living 53. Rest on bended legs 54. Puts in for a job 55. Spicy Mexican dip 58. Clutter

60. Europe’s highest volcano 62. Feline

64. Crucial time 67. Fashion reminiscent of things past

69. Crop up, arise 70. Infants’ daycare centre 71. Actress, … Day 74. Non-acidic substance 75. Grassy tufts 76. Encouraging, … on 77. Authentic, real 78. Distributes playing cards 81. Moans, whines 82. Country star, Keith … 83. Devoutness 86. Celestial speedsters 89. Acquire, obtain 91. Prayer’s final word 93. Garden areas, flower … 95. Groups of cattle 98. Famous cascade, … Falls 99. Knife’s sharp part 101. Love intensely 103. Cipher

104. Goad into action 105. Despite everything, … all

107. Covered in beach grains 109. Commotion, cause a … 112. Soup-serving spoon 114. Witchita Lineman singer, … Campbell 115. Apartment, home unit 117. Type of poem 118. Concept 120. Jewelled globes 121. Apple centre 122. Coyly amorous 124. Comedian’s straight man

127. Keep, preserve 128. Founder of an Asian religion

130. Throb

133. Male sculler 136. Additional 137. Cloudier (water)

138. Stir things up 139. Endurance 140. Winning serves in tennis 141. Lazy people 142. Non-deciduous, … tree

DOWN

1. Band together (4,6) 2. Holiday accommodation 3. Having no gender 4. Soothsayer 5. Egypt’s river 6. Occurring following armed conflict, … reconstruction (4-3) 7. Dry run, rehearsal 8. Able to read and write 9. Knocks sharply 10. Damage 11. Soothed, alleviated 12. Take hold of firmly 13. Commercial (abbrev) 14. Evaluates again 16. Sidesteps 19. Proportionally (3,4) 21. Coral outcrop 23. Decorated with sugar 24. Button on a TV remote 26. Stone-worker 30. Embroidery test piece, eg 31. Navigation floats 33. Hymn, Amazing … 36. Ambiguous, vague 39. Hollywood actor, … Evans

41. Puts questions to 42. Subject matter 43. Gave back (money) 44. Abandoned ships 45. Isles near Cape Horn, Tierra … Fuego 46. Beurre bosc fruit 49. Short name for grandmother

51. Bruce Springsteen hit, Born in the … (1,1,1) 56. Collection of public records

57. Lean and bony 58. Casablanca’s country 59. Screen from view

61. Surface layer on a pizza, eg

63. Car’s pulling line (3-4) 65. Annoying

66. Dolly Parton duet,

… In The Stream

67. Solitary person, hermit 68. Soiled by frequent turning, a well … copy of the book

72. Be in debt to 73. Indisposed 78. Obligations 79. Arranged in a straight line

80. Thin on the ground 84. Succinctly (2,5)

85. Fish with a large net 86. Lead with the other foot (6,4)

87. Large antlered animal 88. In those times, back … 90. Come to a close 92. Atlas chart 93. Necklace ball

94. Put off, discourage 96. Beam of light

97. Thin plate on a fish’s skin 100. Shellfish type of creature 102. Harboured bitterness 106. Rock group, Pink … 108. Chops up vegies 110. Trapped in a desperate position 111. Reversed photographic image

113. Car’s inflatable safety device (3,3)

115. Part of a guitar’s fingerboard 116. Extreme shock 118. Pays no attention to 119. Cry of regret 123. Instrument that resonates at a constant pitch, … fork 125. Vision-related 126. Mirror material 129. Veteran US actress, … Keaton

131. TV show, Home And …

132. Departure door 134. Fully matured (fruit) 135. Female horse