THE BIG ONE
ACROSS 1. Newt (3)
3. Gardening tool (4)
5. Empty (6)
10. Star sign (11)
16. Era (5)
18. Fence preservative (8)
19. Mr Gemmill, exfootballer (6)
20. Confederate (4)
22. Male voice (5)
23. Fancy cake (6)
24. Town in SE Scotland (7)
25. Trade ban (7)
26. Immense (4)
29. Engrave (4)
30. Bunkum (8)
32. Jewelled headdress (5)
36. Golf’s Mr Montgomerie (5)
38. Shellfish (7)
39. Heal (4)
40. Watchful (5)
42. Garment with buttons (8)
44. Furious (5)
45. Staff of life (5)
47. Not poor (4)
48. Venetian boat (7)
50. Blow air into (7)
51. Poison (7)
53. Not hollow (5)
54. Deep narrow gorge (6)
55. Highest point (8)
57. Cleans feathers (6)
59. Foot digit (3)
60. Medals, informally (5)
61. Foreign (5)
63. --- roll or --- white (3)
65. Dowel (3)
67. Hawaiian garland (3) Baillie, Edinburgh
68. Ray place (anag) (3)
69. Tip mine (anag) (3)
71. Top card (3)
73. Fastening devices (5)
76. Indian stringed
instrument (5)
77. Type of wood (3)
81. Somewhat (6)
83. Stationery item (8)
84. Croupier’s workplace (6)
85. Edition (5)
87. Particles of cut wood (7)
89. Jittery (7)
90. Fix up (7)
91. Not shallow (4)
92. Fortunate (5)
94. Spectate (5)
95. Military dining room (4,4)
97. Deserve (5)
99. Thaw (4)
100. Oriental (7) 103. Pungent (5)
104. Artist’s stand (5)
106. Soak (8)
108. Object of worship (4)
112. Hang on (4)
115. Vague (7)
117. Lastly (7)
118. Sausage in a long roll (3,3)
120. Fold in clothing (5)
121. Sixty minutes (4)
122. Within (6)
123. Brown sugar (8)
124. Stories (5)
125. Ordinary soldiers (4,3,4)
126. Grinding teeth (6)
127. Inquires (4)
128. Chew and swallow (3)
DOWN
1. Get away (6)
2. Thus (9)
3. Steals cattle (7)
4. Flying toys (5)
6. Trapeze artist (7)
7. Detest vehemently (5)
8. Abstaining from alcohol (8)
9. Sixteen ounces (5)
11. Accumulate (5)
12. Lied lazy (anag) (4)
13. Mr Wells, ex-sprinter (5)
14. Take by syringe (6)
15. Abattoir (14)
17. Reap (7)
21. Falling star (6)
27. Fragments (6)
28. Colour (4)
29. Surround (8)
31. Any delicious drink (6)
33. Large fall of snow down a mountain (9)
34. Competent (4)
35. Diva (5,5)
37. Scottish cop series (7)
41. Thrash (7)
43. Very young child (6)
45. Brimless cap (5)
46. Please greatly (7)
49. Writer (8)
50. Cake frosting (5)
52. Serviette (6)
53. Precipitous (5) 56. Fair ---- is a Shetland wool pattern (4)
58. Paint type (8)
62. Not wide (6)
63. Gaelic (4)
64. Marry (3,7)
65. Sunshade (7)
66. Covering for the hand (5)
70. Scottish city (9)
72. Manages (5) 74. Word puzzle (7)
75. Militant revolutionary (7,7)
78. Mr Dalglish, exfootballer (5)
79. Permits (6)
80. Flower-shaped badge (7)
82. Infirmary (8)
86. Pill (6)
88. Messy (6) 93. Hotel cook (4)
94. Labour (4)
96. Solution (6)
98. Get revenge (9)
101. Athletic contest (4,3)
102. Favouritism towards relatives (8)
105. Wash and iron (7)
107. Gazza played for them (7)
109. Acquire (6) 110. Despot (6)
111. Russian alcoholic spirit (5)
113. Month (5)
114. Wobbly food (5)
116. Rope-making fibre (5)
117. Worries (5)
119. Housetop (4) Just send your completed grid, with a note of your name and address, to: Funday Puzzler Big Xword, PO Box 48, Liverpool L69 3EB.
The winner for The Big One crossword will be chosen at random from all correct entries received by April 5. Usual Daily Record rules apply. Editor’s decision is final.