BRAINBUSTER
ACROSS
1 Smuggled goods (10)
6 Dry spell (7)
10 Commit (a crime) (10)
15 Starchy pudding cereal (4) 18 Prospers (7)
19 Spain’s peninsula (6)
20 Skin opening (4)
22 Trademark (abbr) (2)
23 Leatherworker’s tool (3) 24 Strict moralist (7)
25 What a t-shirt lacks (6)
26 High in pitch (music) (3) 27 Beginning (short) (5)
29 Work dough (5)
31 Albania (abbr) (3)
32 Bit of parsley (5)
33 Engrave with acid (4)
34 Comfort (4)
35 Incident (5)
36 Stitch (3)
38 Sings without words (4) 40 A 30-day month (abbr) (3) 41 Flower holder (4)
43 Concludes (4)
46 Takes umbrage (7)
49 Extended journey (4)
50 Summit (4)
51 Oath (7)
54 Tourist’s aid (3)
55 Audacity (5)
57 Old photo tint (5)
60 Woollen cloth (5)
62 Steamer (abbr) (3)
63 Planet of the . . . (Mark
Wahlberg movie) (4)
64 Positive answer (3)
65 Part of HRM (3)
66 Enthusiastic (4)
67 Goddess of the dawn
(Gk myth) (3)
69 Firmly founded (11)
70 Via (2)
71 . . . Freedom (movie
about Steve Biko) (3)
72 Worry (7)
73 Bruce . . . (martial artist)
(3)
74 Last Greek letter (5)
75 SA nomad people (3)
76 Stress (9)
77 Vietnamese noodle
soup (3)
79 Laborious (7)
81 Trunk (5)
82 Farewell (French) (5)
83 Foolish (9)
86 Adult nit (5)
87 Frightens (6)
89 Yellow finch (6)
91 Stop (4)
94 Greatest in degree (7)
96 Sleeping spots (4)
98 Arrange (8)
99 Strong coffee (8)
100 Base of the foot (4)
102 Be encouraged (4,5)
103 Performs (4)
106 Casting ballots (6)
107 Wading birds (6)
109 Southern African group
of languages (5)
110 Predecessors of CDs (9) 114 Offal dish (5)
115 Underwater weapon (7) 117 Declares (5)
119 South (abbr) (3)
120 Cooking foil metal (9) 122 Friend (inf ) (3) 123 Hollow feeling (9)
125 Rodent with quills (9) 127 Cash on delivery (abbr)
(3)
128 Focused (9)
129 . . . Lowe (911: Lone Star
actor) (3)
131 Walked over (4)
132 Thallium (symbol) (2) 133 Through (prefix) (3-)
135 Lesotho money (4)
136 Offshore oil structure (3) 138 Indian yoghurt dish (5) 140 Urban areas (5)
143 Re: the ear (4)
144 Pocket a snooker ball (3) 146 . . . in (intervened) (7) 150 Old Testament book (4) 151 Lady . . . (Poker Face
singer) (4)
152 Deadlock (7)
156 Information (4)
158 Dissolve (4)
159 Snakelike fish (3)
160 Game cube (4)
161 Publicity (4)
163 Bushy plant (5)
164 Slightly open (4)
166 . . . of Man, eg (4)
168 Change (5)
169 Groove (3)
171 Eccentric (5)
173 Accessory (3-2)
175 Charged particle (3)
177 Reflexive pronoun (6) 178 In a fatigued manner (7) 179 Flow-control devices (6) 181 Surprise attack (4)
182 Mimic (7)
183 Lethargy (7)
184 Respite (4)
185 Lamented audibly (6) 186 Female rabbit (3)
187 Pub (SA) (7)
188 In all places (10)
DOWN
1 Expense (4)
2 Pester (3)
3 Buck horn (6) 4 Hermetic (8)
5 Type of bed quilt (5) 6 Tyrant (6)
7 Ask too high a price (10) 8 Fashionable celebrities (10)
9 Ponders (6)
10 Fragment (5)
11 Sleigh puller (8)
12 For example (abbr) (2) 13 Circular coral reef (5)
14 At any time (4)
16 Flabbergast (5)
17 Porridge grains (4)
20 Flat dishes (6)
21 Zealous (5)
25 Fatty part of milk (5)
28 State of unease (12)
30 Even so (12)
36 Thwart (6)
37 Swaddle (4)
39 Lending at high interest
(5)
42 Covert agents (5)
44 Noteworthy information
(4)
45 Fortified wine (6)
47 Questionable (10)
48 Drivel (8) 52 At the beginning (2,3,3) 53 Any minute now (10)
56 Swerve (4)
57 Enhance (7)
58 19th-century Bohemian
dance (5)
59 Separate by cutting off (7) 61 Broad (4)
68 Outdoor timepiece (7)
71 Medicine holder (7)
75 Cut drastically (5)
78 Baking appliances (5)
80 Compliance (9)
81 Celebration drink (9)
84 Roads (7)
85 Flickering softly (7)
88 Close to the stern
(nautical) (5)
90 Ridge separating two
glacial valleys (5)
92 Highest mountain
in the Philippines (3)
93 Head to . . . (top to
bottom) (3)
94 Tennis division (3)
95 Drenched (3)
96 Feathered stole (3)
97 Tittle (3)
100 Makes smooth (wood)
(5)
101 Gave a guffaw (7)
104 Crunchier (7)
105 Pistachio cover (5)
106 Attack with abusive
criticism (10)
108 The science of analysing
data (10)
110 Seashore (5)
111 Pupil (7)
112 Robbers (7)
113 SA crushed maize (4)
116 Particle of precipitation
(8)
118 Yarmulke (8)
121 Accompanying (2,3)
124 Shaker contents (4)
126 Dish of many ingredients
(4)
127 Sliced (meat) (6)
130 Container (6)
132 Diacritical mark (5)
134 Loft (5)
137 Sudden blast of wind (4) 139 Online self-image (6)
141 Noticeable (10)
142 Insignificant (10)
144 Quarry (4)
145 Lost brightness (5)
147 Sampled (6)
148 Cleansed (8)
149 Personified (8)
153 The intervening period
(8)
154 Physically energetic (6) 155 Piercing in tone (6)
157 Main blood vessel (5) 162 Committee (5)
165 Precious stones (6)
167 Nonprofessional (6)
170 Consuming (5)
172 Outline (5)
174 Research deeply (into)
(5)
176 Rudimentary seed (5) 177 Greek rainbow goddess
(4)
180 Gin-flavouring fruit (4)