THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Singer with a band 5. Sink stopper 8. Booed, … the speaker 11. Star of The Favourite,
… Colman
16. Close to centre, … circle 17. Small cucumber used for pickling
19. Luck, good … 20. Person who looks after another 21. Eastern prince 22. Canada’s capital 23. Feasible
25. Gets further along,
… in the game 27. University officials 30. From central USA 31. Go back on one’s word 32. Old form of “you” 33. Duck famed for its down 37. Dishwasher product (5,3) 41. Staked, gambled 42. Pasta sauce with anchovies and capers 44. Spin, twirl 45. Co-star of 11. Across, … Stone
46. Soothe, … the pain 47. Church recess 48. Stared salaciously 50. Reached a destination 51. Draws towards, … attention
54. Ballet move, … de deux 56. Estimated time of arrival (1,1,1) 57. Fermentation tanks 59. Recedes like the tide 61. Adding to and improving 63. Severely reprimand 66. Infant’s cradle 68. Stain, make dirty 69. Glistening, glowing 70. Alpine-style singers 73. Electrically charged atoms
75. Sign of a future event 76. Nitrogen, eg 78. James Stewart movie, … A Wonderful Life (2’1) 79. Christmas breaks, summer …
80. Cardio session, … exercise 82. Hybrid citrus fruits 84. Record, … the TV show 85. Covers with bitumen 87. Horrid child, spoilt … 89. Ornamental fabric 91. Period of a thousand years 94. Be fully aware of, … what is at stake
96. Enchanting, fascinating
99. Put clothes on
101. Very big
102. Taunts, laughs at
103. Act of coaxing
106. Ferry docks, eg
108. Fails to resist,
… to his charms 110. Stands in line,
… for tickets 111. Rejects disdainfully 112. Italian meat sauce 115. Excuse of being elsewhere at time of a crime
116. Tall tapering monument
117. Mistakenly (2,5)
118. Deceive, play unfairly
119. Hire or employ, … staff
120. Spanish celebration
121. Cashews, pecans, etc
122. Taught, … the children
DOWN
1. Narration provided for TV show, eg 2. Verify
3. Loiter sinisterly 4. Touring local places of interest
6. Runs perfectly, goes … (4,1,5) 7. Swiss United Nations city 8. Choc-orange lollies 9. Joined a course 10. Flightless Australian birds
12. Stretchy synthetic fabric 13. Insatiable
14. On the other side,
… the river
15. Most puny and weak 18. Honours highly
24. Lay to rest 26. French for “goodbye” 28. Puzzling person or thing
29. Bills of fare
32. Fits of temper 34. Paucity, a … of fresh ideas
35. Area, zone 36. Floppy-eared dog breed, … hound 38. Charge with misconduct, … the President
39. Acts as a replacement, intervenes (5,2) 40. Cropped up, occurred 41. Marry 42. Thin cushion
43. Top of baby’s bottle 46. Most spooky 49. Written compositions 52. Sharply hooked claw 53. Assert ownership,
… the land
55. Sells, … his wares 56. Encouraging, … on 58. Birdsong 60. Australian cricket cap, the … Green 62. Hole-boring tool 64. Additional dose of vaccine, … shot 65. Extended morning snooze (5-2) 67. Prickly weed (5-3) 69. Plan, strategy 71. Searched, … for his keys 72. Fit for eating
74. Rope material 77. Italian sparkling wine, … spumante
80. Give weapons to 81. Brittle and crunchy 82. Tradie’s vehicle 83. Discourteous (3-8) 86. Relating to the ears 88. Essay or project, school … 90. Interesting old object 92. Sending into orbit,
… the satellite 93. Jotter
95. Quarrel, bicker 97. Passed out of university degree
98. Attractive things, real …
100. Distributor
104. Least far
105. Break free
106. Rottnest Island
marsupial
107. Delegate, … a task
109. Exploiting
113. Order of knights in the Star Wars universe 114. Consumer organisation (1,1,1,1)
When you’ve solved the crossword, the letters on the shaded squares, reading left to right, top to bottom, spell a mystery word or phrase.