BRAINBUSTER

NO 1013

ACROSS

1 What you say on 1 January

(5,3,4)

7 Plants kisses (5)

10 Molar-cleaning goop (10) 15 Direction of the sunrise (4) 18 Anxious (7)

19 Nonprofessional (7)

20 Satisfy completely (4)

22 Utters (6)

23 US politician (7)

24 Unlock again (6)

25 Curved shape (3)

26 Without . . . or reason (5)

28 Panorama (5)

30 Corded rayon (3)

31 Argentinian dance (5)

32 Decorative needle case (4) 33 Demeanour (lit) (4)

34 Doctrine (5)

35 Half (prefix) (4)

37 Second Greek letter (4)

39 Fabrication (3)

40 Neither good nor bad (2-2) 42 Stops (4)

45 Agreed (to) (7)

48 Peddle (4)

49 You (arch) (4)

50 Mission (7)

53 Smell a . . .

(have a suspicion) (3)

54 Remove by clipping (5)

55 Large woody plants (5)

58 Bogus (5)

60 Groove (3)

61 Enquires (4)

62 Mischievous sprite (3)

63 . . . and void (invalid) (4)

64 Caspian or Baltic, eg (3)

66 State of feeling conflicted

(11)

67 Look at closely (3)

68 Annoy (9)

69 Encroached (on) (9)

70 (A) little (3)

71 Discuss terms (9)

72 It’s no . . . ! (impossible) (3) 74 Not precise (7)

76 Formidable foe (7)

78 Type of nut (5)

79 Weirdest (9)

82 Remove (5)

83 Charts (6)

85 Grips (6)

87 Miss SA band (4)

90 Designated (9)

92 Cream of the crop (4)

94 Despot (8)

95 Military weapons (8)

96 Employer (4)

98 Stress (9)

99 Jokes (inf ) (4)

102 Ballerina, eg (6)

103 Manufacturers (6)

105 Audacity (5)

106 Inspired awe (9)

110 Long (for) (5)

111 Speak explosively in anger

(7)

113 Sloping typeface (7)

115 Drink gingerly (3)

116 Ecstatic (9)

118 Maiden name indicator (3) 119 Submarine’s optical device

(9)

121 Date sources (4,5)

123 Put into words (3) 124 Pretentious display (11) 125 Twitch (3)

127 Note (4)

128 Slide on snow (3)

130 Street (4)

131 Without exception (3) 133 Mid-leg joints (5)

134 Hightail it (5)

137 Movie and book genre

(inf) (3-2)

138 A spherical green seed

(3)

139 Light-bulb fitting (7) 143 Atoll (4)

144 Dairy animals (4)

145 Type of violet (7)

149 Song sung by two (4) 151 Poetic measure (4)

152 Winning tennis serve (3) 153 Unaccompanied (4)

154 Crimson and scarlet, eg

(4)

156 Binding (5)

157 Boys (4)

159 Cloth with threads of

gold (4)

161 Take place (5)

162 22nd Greek letter (3) 164 Conceals (5)

166 Confess (to) (5)

168 Be in debt (3)

170 Responds (6)

171 Vocalists (7)

172 Ailing (6)

174 Vaselike vessels (4)

175 Present as a list (7)

176 Greeted (military) (7) 177 Town in NW England (4) 178 Nourishment (10)

179 Flair (5)

180 Embarrassment (12)

DOWN

1 Tints (4)

2 Show-off (inf) (5)

3 Drivel (8)

4 Clothes cupboard (8)

5 Dark wood (5)

6 Apple variety (6)

7 Analgesic medicine (10)

8 10 millimetres (10)

9 Deprive of nourishment (6) 10 Snares (5)

11 User (8)

12 Long silvery fish (pl) (8)

13 Form (5)

14 Flat (4)

16 Quickly (5)

17 Strategy (6)

20 Classed according to type

(6)

21 Lukewarm (5)

27 Sizes (12)

29 In short supply (12)

35 Dirndls and kilts (6)

36 Beer ingredient (4)

38 Borders (5)

41 Head skin (5)

43 Within reach (4)

44 Agree out of court (6)

46 Be composed (of) (10)

47 Melt (8)

51 Implements (8)

52 Says sorry (10)

55 Set off (7)

56 Worship (5)

57 Process of leaking (7) 59 Prayer ending (4)

65 Those who can’t get

enough (7)

66 At the time that (2)

67 Train (7)

70 Uses a keyboard (5)

73 Vote for (5)

75 Despicable (9)

77 Play characterised by

extravagant emotion (9)

80 One more (7)

81 Kikuyu and Bermuda, eg (7) 84 Decorate (5)

86 Serpent (5)

88 In the past (3)

89 Owns (3)

90 Devoured (3)

91 Female hare (3)

92 Plead (3)

93 Sink (3)

96 Camp beds (5)

97 Disjointed (7)

100 Opposed to (7)

101 From then until now (5) 102 Rightly (10)

104 Organised (10)

106 Tempting (12)

107 Marionettes (7)

108 Bellowed (7)

109 Deprived (of belongings)

(12)

112 Tacit (8)

114 Inside (8)

117 Loosen (5)

120 Jab (4)

122 Indefinite article (2)

123 Protected from sunlight

(6)

126 Intonations (6)

128 Partitions (anat) (5)

129 Kind of wave (5)

132 Ear part (4)

135 Polite banter (10)

136 Superiority (10)

138 Yearn (for) (4)

140 Lofts (6)

141 Oversight (8)

142 Twice nine (8)

146 A stride (8)

147 Incorporates (8)

148 Darts (6)

150 Open sore (5)

155 Reside (5)

158 Holdings (6)

160 Stacks (6)

163 . . . down (without a

doubt) (5)

165 Operate a car (5)

167 Riotous fight (5)

169 Braid (5)

170 Sprints (4)

173 Allows (4)