Manchester Evening News

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ACROSS

1 Light creamy dessert (6)

5 Stun (4)

8 Roll of paper or

parchment (6)

10 Control (8)

14 Scant, patchy (6)

16 Hosiery items (5)

22 Take issue (8)

23 __ Pursuit, classic board

game (7)

24 Babble (7)

26 Lizard (9)

27 Speed contests (5)

29 Ribbon (4)

30 Owing (3)

31 Searches (5) 33 Hard animal fat (4)

34 In advance (10)

35 Respond (5)

36 Epochs (4)

39 So or thus (3)

40 Stammers (8)

42 Elfin creature (6)

43 Couch (6)

44 Stringed instrument­s (5)

46 Violence, hostility (10)

49 Strict (6)

51 Educate (5)

54 Capital of Denmark (10)

56 Practise (8)

61 Magnificen­ce (8)

63 Disperse (7) 64 Informed (5)

65 Produce or engender (5)

66 Call for help (init.) (3)

68 Satisfy fully (4)

70 Hairstyle (4)

71 Before (3)

72 Smacks (5)

74 Ski slope (5)

75 Excel (7)

78 Set of letters (8)

83 Do down (8)

85 Unfairly treated (4,4,2)

87 Pulls along (5)

89 Afternoon nap (6)

91 Blowfly (10)

94 Runny mud (5) 96 Shelter, conceal (6)

98 Amuse (6)

100 Proof (8)

102 Used to be (3)

104 Hits lightly (4)

106 Chairs (5)

107 Radical (5-5)

109 Jest or joke (4)

111 Breaks suddenly (5)

114 Witch (3)

115 Sit for an artist (4)

116 Shelter (5)

117 Native Australian (9)

118 Female voice (7)

121 2002 musical starring

Renée Zellweger (7) 122 Cosmetic item (8)

123 Derision (5)

124 Goes by bike (6)

125 Albumen (3,5)

126 Threaten (6)

127 A __ Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,

Bob Dylan song (4)

128 Oozed (6)

DOWN

2 Art of paper folding (7)

3 Cobra, for example (5)

4 Serious in mind or

intention (7)

6 In control (2,3,4)

7 Revises (5)

8 __ Girls, former UK pop

group (5)

9 Circuit (3)

11 Chew and swallow

food (3)

12 Elude (5)

13 Refined (7)

14 Pay out (5)

15 Unnatural (8)

17 Very fat (5)

18 Remains (5) 19 Initial advantage (4,5)

20 Cook in an oven (4)

21 Talk idly (6)

25 Turf out (5)

26 Shut completely (5,2)

28 Butter substitute (9)

32 Teacher’s title (3)

33 Stitches (7)

37 In the past (3)

38 One-room flat (6)

39 Mediocre (2-2)

41 The Devil (5)

42 __ Jam, 1996 film starring

Michael Jordan (5)

44 Help (4,1,4)

45 Simmers (5)

47 Health resort (3) 48 Edict (6)

50 Component (7)

52 Astrologic­al prediction (9)

53 Gossip (7)

54 Pirate (7)

55 Wonderment (3)

57 Harasses (7)

58 Curved sword (5)

59 Breaker (4)

60 Ludicrous situation (5)

62 Bring up, raise (4)

67 Arachnid (6)

69 Vitally important (9)

73 Scorches (5)

74 Seedcase (3)

76 Harvested (6)

77 Earnest (7) 79 Situate (5)

80 Gangway (5)

81 Trouble persistent­ly (9)

82 Excludes (4)

84 Sir Jony __, UK designer noted for his work at Apple Inc. (3)

86 Subjugate (7)

88 Person living next door (9)

90 Military dining room (4,4)

92 __ Michele, US actress and star of the TV series Glee (3)

93 Expelled (6)

95 Native of Tehran, e.g. (7)

97 Goes by horse (5)

99 Donkey (3) 101 Store of money (7)

103 Spartan (7)

104 Odes (5)

105 Step (5)

107 Minute particles (5)

108 Rubbish, informally (5)

110 Slightly open (4)

112 Tolerate (5)

113 Secret hoard (5)

115 Group of lions (5)

119 Mine (3)

120 __ Gunnar Solskjaer, Norwegian football manager (3)

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