MEGA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Leadership 6. Originate 10. Remove from secret list 15. Dork
18. Chops 19. Anonymous (source) 20. Floral arrangement jar 22. Degree 23. Weaponless 24. Heavy horned animals 25. Shady tree 26. Instruction 28. Choose
30. Just a minute, wait a ... 31. Conductor’s wand 32. Yes (informal) 33. Ascend
34. Spirit contact board 35. Computer unit of data 37. Wood-trimming tool 39. Woman’s title
40. Pate de foie ... 42. Shocked inhalation 45. Grapple
48. Splash (through) 49. Stereo unit (2-2) 50. Male reporters 53. Concert tour booking 54. Large area
56. Field entrance 59. Objects
61. Chatter
62. Injured cry
63. 20 cwt
64. Blight 65. Darjeeling & Earl Grey 66. Twitch
68. Live-in 69. Hoodwink
70. Curbs 71. Cowboy’s ... hat (3-6) 72. Demure 73. Painting genre (5,4) 74. Actress, ... Thurman 76. Traditional (3-4) 78. French shrine 80. Repeatedly 81. Curiously 84. Stunned, ... aback 85. Sailor 87. Judgments
89. Semi
92. Small axes 94. Experience 96. Sporadically (3,3,2) 97. Allot
98. Vigour
100. Beating
101. Float gently
104. Flaccid
105. Rock levels 107. External 108. Providing funds 112. Decree
113. Excessive
115. Accounts scrutiniser 117. Soak (up)
118. VIP treatment, ... reception (3-6)
120. Went to ground 121. Kitchen foil metal 123. Clarify
125. Lump of turf 126. Unwavering determination 127. Date of birth (1,1,1) 129. Against
130. Luxury lover, ... vivant 131. Deliberately run into 133. Grape variety, Pinot ... 134. Alien craft (1,1,1) 136. Endowment 137. Indonesian dish 140. Eventuated
141. Nib point
142. Prairie wolves 146. Dusting powder
147. Loose change 148. Opposes
152. Dropped off the perch 154. Hindu garment 155. United Arab Emirates (1,1,1) 156. Unspoilt paradise 157. Poses (question) 159. Ahead by a single match (3-2)
160. Excited squeals
162. Hind part
164. Engine oil pans 165. Epidemic disease 167. Outstanding (of debt) 169. Scientist, ... Newton
171. US, Uncle ... 173. Lebanese capital 174. Despicable characters 175. Marijuana cigarette
177. Hot drink dispensers 178. Outshine
179. Rues
180. Folk wisdom 181. Benignly
182. Cranial cavities 183. Ingrained (of ideas) (4-6)
DOWN
1. Cocktail, ... colada 2. Register
3. States firmly
4. Federal
5. Harvest 6. Guarantee 7. Annexed document 8. Senior RAF officer (3,7) 9. Oozes
10. Bossa nova
11. Torpid 12. Humanoids 13. Mindless 14. Couturier, ... Saint Laurent 16. Rough paper
17. Sillier
20. Face
21. Shoes & ... 27. Bystanders 29. Lawfully 35. Luminous
36. Finally understand 38. Overthrow, coup ... (1’4) 41. Fury
43. Pop artist, ... Warhol 44. Plumped for 46. Banishments 47. Leashed
51. Towards the setting sun 52. Olympic winners
55. ... on the cob
56. Hotter (curry) 57. Perfect
58. Tangle
60. Narrative 67. Snowflake, ice ... 69. Succumb, ... under 72. Poplin or serge 75. Nullify
77. Not loud enough 79. Glided sinuously 82. Tennessee’s neighbour 83. Lurid
86. Ethiopia’s capital, Addis ... 88. Bedtime beverage 90. Boxing legend, Muhammad ...
91. Befuddle
92. Explosive compound (1,1,1) 93. Droop
94. Hardly any
95. Imp
98. Hurtles
99. Jotter 102. Embarrassed 103. Carried
104. Regularly
106. High wire performers 108. Yeast process 109. Bare-skin advocates 110. Irreverence 111. Interlopers (4-8) 114. Early evening 116. Slenderness 119. Valuable possession 122. Atop 124. Shakespearean king 125. Pickled
128. Skirt around
130. Light timber 132. Actor, Dudley ... 135. Previously 138. Allegation 139. Discovers
141. Hurl
143. Smells
144. Opera beginning 145. Adopts (policy) 149. Settle snugly, ... oneself 150. Covers with liquid 151. Decorative tuft 153. Surmise
158. Pol Pot’s ... Rouge 161. Female monster 163. Corridors 166. Passenger ship 168. Sicily’s mainland 170. Intended
172. Astir
173. Hedge
176. Peruse
“WRITING IS EASY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CROSS OUT THE WRONG WORDS.”
MARK TWAIN