THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Began again

6. Seize by force, … a plane, eg 11. Marilyn Monroe movie,

The Seven Year ... 13. Round root vegetables 15. Shrank back in embarrassment 17. Ungenerous

18. Name for New York, Big ... 20. Leftover piece of cloth 22. Health and comfort 25. Cereal full of fruit and nuts 27. Instances

28. Oak seeds 29. Dormant

31. Sports kit, eg

32. Irish name for Ireland 34. Little children 35. Affectionate name for grandma

37. Alfred Hitchcock thriller, ... Curtain

38. King of the jungle 40. Separate, pull … 43. Criminal bands 45. Donkeys

47. Monies owed 48. Scorch, sear 50. Musical symbol, treble ... 52. Speak off the cuff (2-3) 53. Country music star,

... Urban

54. Degree of excellence 55. Modern Persian language 58. Ambitions, goals 60. Consumes food 62. Passports or driving licences, eg (abbrev) 64. Stylish, elegant 67. Looks at a book 69. Australian singer, Tina … 70. C.S. Lewis book series,

The Chronicles Of … 71. Used a broom 74. Lifted up 75. Operatic soprano, Dame ... Melba 76. Movie theatre 77. French Pacific island 78. Blacksmith’s workshop 81. Obstructs, … access 82. Innocent and gullible 83. Birds’ homes 86. Movie, Smokey And The …

89. Witness

91. Table of duties

93. Felines

95. Dressing gowns

98. Gossiped, tittle …

99. South American dance

101. Holy city of Islam

103. Quick kiss

104. Avid, eager

105. Javelin-like weapon 107. Seeks prey

109. Mexican sauce or dip

112. Back of a ship

114. Fatty tissue used

for puddings

115. Layer of drifting ice

117. Large body of water

118. Colliery, coal …

120. Former Australian

cricketer, ... Gilchrist

121. Large bucket

122. Supposedly gluttonous

seabird

124. Bodily tissue providing

strength

127. Being adjacent to

128. Trainee hospital doctor

130. Stretchable rubber cord

133. Noticed

136. Network intersections

137. Language spoken in

Stockholm

138. Moved sinuously

139. Leaf-brewing vessels

140. Colony insects

141. Warm up food again

142. Plaintiffs

DOWN

1. Advocates, proposes 2. Group of adjoining rooms in hotel 3. Luanda is its capital 4. Stephen Sondheim musical, Sweeney … 5. Sand hill

6. Female party-giver 7. Star of The Good Wife, ... Margulies 8. Newspaper cutting, eg 9. Sketched

10. Harper Lee novel,

To ... A Mockingbird 11. Scientist, Sir ... Newton 12. Silly escapade 13. Menace, issue a … 14. Moderately

16. Chief journalist 19. Lurked about, sneaked 21. Sauce that goes with lamb 23. Well-balanced 24. Pastoral properties 26. Slumbered 30. Deliberately set alight 31. Roughly spoken 33. Jewish spiritual leader 36. Valuable old object 39. Nickname for New Zealand, The Shaky ... 41. Makes a request 42. Coarse string 43. Clutches

44. Written text of a play or film 45. Melodic tune

46. Go by yacht 49. Perform in a play