THE BIG ONE
ACROSS
1 Automated teller machine (4,9)
8 Expressing agreement (11)
14 Overseas (6)
16 Sounded a horn (6)
17 Cookers (5)
18 Responsibility, task or burden (4)
19 Foreign (5)
21 Rifle attachment (7)
22 Musical pitch indicator (4)
23 A referee (7)
24 Fuss, bother (3)
25 Vain boy’s name (anag) (4)
26 Baa (5)
27 Infirmary (8)
28 Recently made, novel (3)
30 Votes in (6)
38 A kiln for drying hops (4)
41 A short distance (6,5)
42 Apiarist (9)
44 To remove or eliminate completely (4,3)
46 School absentee (6)
47 To wait on (5)
48 Very alarming or distressing (9)
49 Huge, vast (7)
51 A German shepherd dog (8)
53 At ----- or loom ----- (5)
54 Vital organ (5)
56 Synagogue minister (5)
57 Not in good health (3)
60 The small screen (10)
62 A collection of games (10)
64 Equipment (3)
65 24th Greek letter (5)
66 Friends (5)
68 Ridicules, scoffs at (5)
71 A short pause for rest, informally (8)
73 Flightless marine bird (7)
74 Required (9)
76 This is a group of lions (5)
77 Signal fire (6)
78 Wavers (7)
80 Unfastens, unties (9)
81 Unqualified, positive (11)
82 Box in training (4)
87 Star sign (6)
89 Colorant (3)
91 The home of a famous monster? (4,4)
92 Tyre surface (5)
93 Heroic (4)
95 Falsehood (3)
97 Ideal (7)
98 A unit of speed (4) 99 Oblivious (7)
100 Perfume (5)
102 An object of worship (4)
103 Something to sit on (5)
104 Pouch of shampoo (6)
105 Moscow’s country (6)
106 A town south of Stirling (11)
107 Intense mental application (13)
DOWN
2 Having no known name (9)
3 Native Australian wind instrument (10)
4 Of crucial importance (7)
5 Nine-sided figure (7)
6 Baby’s toy (6)
7 Throughout (4,5,2,4)
9 Ally McCoist’s sport (8)
10 Admiration, good opinion (7)
11 Atmosphere (4)
12 An old soldier (7)
13 Counterfoils (5)
15 A sofa with no back or sides (5)
20 Singer born Marie Lawrie (4)
29 Adequate (6)
31 To play dishonestly (5)
32 Celtic manager from 1965-78 (4,5)
33 Type of bird (7)
34 Advantage or sake (7)
35 A sporting competition (10)
36 A type of antelope (9)
37 Bomb hole (6)
39 To see the world (6)
40 Chewy sweet (6)
43 A town in SW Scotland (10)
45 Indian dress (4)
50 Insecure, perilous (10)
52 Church recess (4)
55 Added or supplementary (10)
58 A European flatfish (5,4)
59 Stimulus, incentive (4)
61 One who loads or unloads ships (9)
63 Early symptom of pregnancy (7,8)
66 Gruesome (7)
67 Steal, informally (7)
68 This is an insect (6)
69 Emphasise (6)
70 Render accessible start firing a gun (4,2)
72 School test (4)
75 Thickset (6)
77 Extra payment (5)
79 Mercy killing (10)
83 Edible nut (9)
84 A dealer in gems (8)
85 Windpipe (7)
86 Mown area of grass (4)
88 Pointed tool (3,4)
90 Springy or resilient (7)
91 To lower or to disappoint (3,4)
93 Anaesthetic (5)
94 A high-quality grape brandy (6)
96 Trivial (5)
101 A group of three (4)