BRAINBUSTER

ACROSS

1 Down tools (6)

4 Intermittent (8)

8 Household appliance (6,7) 16 Open a present (6)

18 Dental string (5)

19 Sound of an empty

stomach (5)

21 Reviewer (6)

23 Type of waterlily (5)

25 Avid (5)

26 Upright (5)

28 Move like lava (4)

29 Latest (6)

31 Thinly scattered (6)

32 Wheel cover (4)

33 Motionless (5)

34 Cause of great affliction (7) 35 Mend (4)

37 Flat circular plate (4)

39 Musical symbol (4)

41 Edges (4)

43 Aesop’s also-ran (4)

44 Opera solos (5)

45 Pond organism (4)

47 Emblems of rank (6)

48 Clearance event (4)

49 Ringing device (4)

50 Helps back to health (6)

51 Starchy pudding cereal (4) 52 Home of the Spanish

Steps (4)

53 Largest organ in the

body (4)

54 Greenish-blue colour (4) 55 River in South America (6) 57 Underlying reason (9)

58 Conflict (6)

60 Moisten while cooking (5) 62 Irma Stern’s field (3)

63 Spanish aunt (3)

64 Viper (5)

66 Twiddled digit (5)

68 Partitions (anatomy) (5)

70 Promotional description

(5)

72 Main blood vessel (5)

73 Knights’ wives (6)

75 Learning institution (6)

77 Jousting weapon (5)

79 (Had) witnessed (4)

81 Look secretly (4)

82 Powerful ruling family (7) 84 Droopy-eared dog

breed (7)

88 Courteous regard (7)

90 Re: the ocean (6)

92 Permit (3)

93 Burning (6)

95 Zoomed-in shot (5-2)

97 Target (3)

98 A Nightmare on . . . Street

(movie) (3)

99 Messenger (7)

101 Cattle farms (7)

102 Universal cure (7)

103 Luxuriant (7)

104 . . . up (admit to) (3)

105 Atmosphere (3)

106 Chest of drawers (7)

107 Occur (6)

109 Fitting (3)

111 Regard as similar (6)

113 Church tower (7)

116 Confidentiality (7)

119 Pasta strips (7) 122 Sea’s rise and fall (4)

124 Prepare text for

publishing (4)

126 The whole nine . . .

(everything) (5)

127 Eye parts (6)

130 Front of a building (6) 132 Map book (5)

133 Nails (5)

134 Motionless (5)

135 Four-door car (5)

136 1970s dance music (5) 139 Message sent by phone

(abbr) (3)

140 Twitch (3)

141 (With) relish (5)

144 Make happen (6)

146 Prevalence (9)

147 . . . Island (former political

prison) (6)

149 Winter garment (4)

150 What Venus de Milo

lacks (4)

151 Impartial (4)

152 Cooking fat (4)

153 Account (6)

155 Attempt to sell (4)

157 Creative spark (4)

159 Polite request (6)

161 Whittle (down) (4)

162 French river (5)

163 Urban centre (4)

164 Was Persia (4)

165 Bambi, eg (4)

166 Small biting insect (4) 167 Swerve (4)

169 Cry out (7)

171 Arcade coin (5)

172 Summon (4)

173 Shop (6)

176 Go back (6)

178 . . . and void (invalid) (4) 179 Schemes (5)

181 Interpolation (5)

182 Useful skill (5)

184 Overland expedition (6) 186 Crunchy (5)

187 Once more (5)

188 Conference (SA) (6)

190 Unrefined but effective

(5,3,5)

191 Approach (8)

192 Harsh (6)

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1 Crammed (7)

2 Not cooked (3) 3 Made comprehensible (9) 4 Sodium chloride (4) 5 Counterbalance (6) 6 Overhead (5)

7 Map within a map (5) 9 Ancient Greek marketplace (5)

10 But (6)

11 Selection of small Greek

dishes (4)

12 University teachers (9)

13 Mesh (3)

14 Missiles (7)

15 Hen offerings (4)

17 Vessel with oars (6,4)

20 Disgust (7)

22 Showing curiosity (10)

24 Irrational (12)

27 Identifiable (12) 30 Rope fibre (5)

36 Llama relative (6)

37 Abandoned (8)

38 Cracks (8)

39 Storage units (8)

40 High-pitched voice (8)

42 Threaten (6)

43 Brave one (4)

46 Your mother’s sister (4)

56 Copper and iron, eg (6)

59 Stories (6)

61 Warning device (5)

65 Waltz (5)

67 Callous (13)

68 Ooze (4)

69 Skin condition (4)

71 Never done before (13)

72 Daring (9)

74 Against (prefix) (4)

76 Aussie gem (4)

78 Businesses (11)

80 . . . of a kind (unique) (3) 83 Release from blame (7)

84 Adds salt (7)

85 Annual reference book (7) 86 Say again (7)

87 Type of jawless fish (7)

89 Scanned (7)

91 Summarise (5)

94 Manilla hemp (5)

96 Canopic jar (3)

100 Paddle (3)

108 Jetty (4)

110 Be inquisitive (3)

112 Secondhand (4)

114 German bills (5)

115 Moving engine part (6) 117 She sheep (pl) (4)

118 Anthracite (4)

120 Colour associated with

the Netherlands (6)

121 Soothes (5)

123 Thesis by doctoral

student (12)

125 Representations in

words (12)

128 Demanded (8)

129 More disciplined (8)

130 Short-lived (8)

131 Relic (8)

137 Weather map line (6) 138 Oil used as insect

repellant (10)

142 Made without yeast (10) 143 Aquatic chelonian

reptile (6)

145 Find fault (4)

148 Paris airport (4)

154 For every unit of

population (3,6)

156 Futile (7)

158 Crowded (5)

160 Useful facilities (9)

164 Chisel-edged tooth (7) 168 Let go (7)

170 Brawn (6)

171 Dazed state (6)

174 Landowner (Scot) (5) 175 Helpful hints (4)

176 Undergo chemical

change (5)

177 Pope’s headdress (5)

180 A corrosive solution (4) 183 Oscillate (4)

185 Common illness (3)

189 Grow older (3)