THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Waters (crops)
6. Oil yielding seed 11. Consumes food 13. Small shopkeepers 15. Duo
17. How may I help? Can I … (2,2,3)? 18. Find an answer to 19. Noise of artillery 21. Cinders
23. Hard shiny materials 25. Eases
26. Wild laughing animals 28. Breed of dog, red ... 30. Sit for an artist 31. Baby’s bottle top 33. Additional tax 34. USA’S espionage department (inits) 36. Church recess
37. TV chef, ... Evans 39. Measurement of length 42. Small hollows 44. Miniature version 46. Ozark actress,
... Linney
47. Be defeated 49. Small mountain 51. Choose (by ballot) 52. Short legged breed of dog 53. Narrow minded
54. All at once, en ... 57. Volcano shaft 59. Hindu woman’s robe 61. Came together 63. 1968 Aretha Franklin hit, I Say A Little ... 66. Spills over
68. Oscar winning actress and star of Monster’s Ball, ... Berry 69. Sophisticated 70. Touches down 73. Depicts or performs 74. Medical trials 75. Bitter
76. Live in mother’s helper (2,4) 77. Hibernated
80. Made very happy 81. Heart artery 82. Thick woollen cloth 85. Unfocused
88. Not strict enough
90. Ill considered 92. Indisputable detail 94. Whispered remark 97. Central part of a boat 98. Perfect 100. Burdened 102. Sources of pleasure 103. Swerve 104. Dramatic performer
106. Cathedral instrument
108. Brief and abrupt
111. Mode, manner
113. Des Moines’ US state
114. Dull persistent pain
116. Animal doctor
117. Distort, depict unfairly
119. Tots up
120. Military division
121. Coronet
123. Least wild
126. Literary and
scholastic world
127. Offensive remark
129. Function
131. Makes a bubbling
sound
134. Porcelain
135. Tearing apart
136. Senseless
137. Person travelling to
settle in a new country
138. Ladder rung
139. Star of Brokeback
Mountain, Heath ...
140. Rebellious sailors
DOWN
1. In a familiar manner 2. Bird’s night time perch 3. Search engine 4. Young adult 5. Prelim to the final
6. In a considered, serious manner 7. Sneaker tie 8. Computer user’s pad (5,3)
9. Shift system 10. Netting
11. English composition 12. Bird’s sharp claw 13. Swiss location of UN headquarters 14. Regular bulletin 16. Round up (sheep or cattle)
20. Sense 22. Sneaker, moccasin, eg 24. Daisy like flower 26. Central male character 27. Kick out 29. Naturalistic portrayal 30. Devotional hymn 32. Entertain
35. Very cruel 38. Funeral song 40. Social finesse 41. Gaffe
42. Rebuttal 43. Disgraces
44. Robin Williams comedy, ... Doubtfire
45. Stag or doe 48. Knight’s title
50. Fury, wrath
55. On the run (2,5) 56. Drove too fast
57. In all but name
58. US river and falls
60. In the customary way (2,5) 62. Stymies
64. US state known as the Heart of Dixie
65. Beg
66. Double crosses 67. Covered by a policy 71. Afflict
72. Sudden drop 77. Chauvinistic
78. Ugly offensive building 79. Prosper 83. Vibrated 84. Straight odds 85. Study of the dynamics of projectiles 86. Bestow 87. Telephoned 89. Enchanted star,
... Adams
91. Orangutan, eg
92. Whip very harshly
93. Quoted as an example
95. Charged particle
96. Force out
99. Basic details (5,5)
101. Rub out
105. Molluscs sometimes
made into chowder
107. Join on to
109. Courtroom testimony
110. Dismissing in cricket
112. Made neat
114. Melodies
115. Chaperone
117. Walk unsteadily
118. Bird’s limb
122. Naval standard
124. Damp
125. Marshland
128. Loosen
129. Compulsion
130. Historical periods
132. Interior part of a
building
133. Bits of fluff