THE BIG ONE

ACROSS

1. Awl statute (anag) (3)

3. Skin problem (4)

5. An exchange or swap (6)

10. Author of Ivanhoe (6,5)

16. Articles (5)

18. Second-rate (8)

19. Polite or respectable (6)

20. Land measure (4)

22. A place of safety or sanctuary (5) 23. Incorrect or false (6) 24. Playhouse (7) 25. Give approval or sanction to (7) 26. Animals or birds hunted (4) 29. Loop sport (anag) (4) 30. Sticky (8) 32. Wading bird (5) 36. The trunk of the human body (5) 38. Herb (7) 39. To encircle (4) 40. Purchaser (5) 42. Intermittent (8) 44. Standard monetary unit of India (5) 45. Involving or producing sound (5) 47. Greek letter (4) 48. A referee (7) 50. Afraid (7) 51. Pined (7) 53. Not easily bent, rigid (5) 54. Hospital workers (6) 55. Women’s underwear (8) 57. A gentle or light wind (6) 59. As well, in addition (3) 60. Robert ----- or Tommy ----- (5) 61. End of life, decease (5) 63. Cigarette deposit (3) 65. Edge of cloth turned and sewn down (3) 67. Seedcase (3) 68. To ventilate (3) 69. Tree (3) 71. Grass mown and dried for fodder (3) 73. Not old (5) 76. Manages (5) 77. --- Stewart, singer (3) 81. Schedule (6) 83. Relative, kinsman (8) 84. Sixty seconds (6) 85. European country (5) 87. Pancreatic hormone (7) 89. Baggage (7) 90. Petty gangster or ruffian (7) 91. Image worshipped as a god (4) 92. Speak slowly (5) 94. A broom of twigs (5) 95. A cutting instrument (8) 97. Swagger (5)

99. Abominable snowman (4) 100. One more (7) 103. Lariat (5) 104. Religion (5) 106. East --------, Scottish town (8) 108. Eye up (4) 112. Resound in oche (anag) (4) 115. Flourish of trumpets (7) 117. Equilibrium of the body, steadiness (7) 118. Deadly (6) 120. Electricity supply (5) 121. 1,760 yards (4) 122. Japanese system of selfdefence (6) 123. Grumble (8) 124. A neckwear item (5) 125. Very tall buildings (11) 126. Hat (6) 127. Verge (4) 128. Unit of weight (3)

DOWN

1. Restricts, confines (6)

2. Weekday (9)

3. Disciple (7)

4. Scandinavian (5)

6. To cajole (7)

7. Belonging to them (5)

8. Until this time (8)

9. Of comparatively great weight (5) 11. Warning device (5) 12. Conservative (4) 13. Steam bath (5) 14. Take or carry too far, exaggerate (6) 15. Assume without question (4,3,7) 17. Spanish drink (7) 21. Falling star (6) 27. Ideal society (6) 28. Costing nothing (4) 29. TV series featuring Fulton Mackay (8) 31. Buy in from abroad (6) 33. Give added strength to (9) 34. Blood vessel (4) 35. Inlet of the sea on our NE coast (5,5) 37. Gains possession of (7) 41. Fall back (7) 43. Colour (6) 45. Precipitation (5) 46. Mountaineer (7) 49. Meal cooked over an open fire (8) 50. Is unsuccessful (5)

52. Insignificant person (6) 53. Eat fast and greedily (5) 56. Catch sight of (4) 58. Ultimate (8) 62. Worry or annoy continually (6) 63. Curved structure (4) 64. In a terrible rage (7,3) 65. Partner in marriage (7) 66. Cheerful, jolly (5) 70. Senseless or unreasonable (9)

72. On top of or higher than (5) 74. Foreboding evil (7) 75. Tartan teenage sensations (3,4,7) 78. A boring tool (5) 79. Drinking tubes (6) 80. White ant (7) 82. Emery board (8) 86. Hand tool for working wood (6) 88. Period of instruction (6)

93. Dull pain (4) 94. ---- rate or ---- station (4) 96. Islands of which Kirkwall is the capital (6) 98. Superfluous, no longer required (9) 101. Sea creature (7) 102. Rabble (8) 105. Flow windingly (7) 107. Return of ill health (7) 109. In recent times (6) 110. A long narrow flag (6)

111. Sorcery (5) 113. Applaud with shouts (5) 114. Perspire (5) 116. Without clothes (5) 117. Large across, wide (5) 119. Speech defect (4)

Just send your completed grid, with a note of your name and address, to: Funday Puzzler Big Xword, PO Box 901, Glasgow G9 2BD. The winner for The Big One crossword will be chosen at random from all correct entries received by Friday, June 3. Usual Daily Record rules apply. Editor’s decision is final.