CHUNKY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Verified (6)

4 Bending line (5)

8 Healed (5)

11 Bough (6)

13 Near (5)

14 Belonging to us (4)

16 Pinkish red (4)

18 Buying and selling (5)

19 Characteristic (5)

20 Leather strips (6)

21 Ooze (4)

22 Regulation (4)

23 Aircra shed (6)

27 Play about, gambol (6)

30 Prayer ending (4)

32 Ear part (4)

34 Disappear (6)

37 Damp (5)

39 Flying limb (4)

40 Electrical unit (4)

41 --- Zola, French author (5)

42 Weary (5) 43 Member of a jury (5) 44 Red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron (4) 45 Worry (4)

46 Total, score (5) 52 Close of the day (6) 55 Groups of ca le (5) 57 Apple drink (5) 58 Sculpted figure (6) 60 Freight (5)

61 Flunk (4) 64 Storyline (4) 65 Uncertainty (5)

66 Of the moon (5) 67 Jealousy (4) 68 Italian hors d’oeuvre (9) 70 Young horse (4) 73 Shakespeare’s tragic prince (6)

75 Leg joints (5)

77 Last (5) 79 Playground plank (6)

80 Multitude (5)

83 The Lord of the ---, Tolkien book (5) 87 Greek capital (6) 88 Shelter provided by a tree (5) 89 Grilled bread (5) 90 Sufficient (6) 92 Staple Asian grain (4) 95 Identified a disease (9) 99 Fly high (4) 101 Maxim (5) 102 Chuckle (5) 103 Molten rock (4)

105 --- vu, sense of having already experienced something (4)

106 Rub against, abrade (5) 107 Apparel, garb (6) 108 Edition, publication (5) 110 --- of Erin, ballroom dance (5) 112 Sovereign’s seat (6) 113 Waiting line (5) 116 Was defeated (4) 118 Short for professor (4) 120 Male goat (5)

123 Own up, confess (5) 126 Astound (5) 129 Serving plate (4)

130 Lo y (4) 131 Mistake (5) 132 Provide with work (6) 134 Shipbuilding timber (4) 135 Sheet of glass (4) 136 Extensive plain (6) 140 Desert plant (6) 143 Charts (4) 144 Cooking fat (4) 146 Acid in oranges and lemons (6) 148 Short film appearance by a celebrity (5) 151 Happen (5) 153 Number of things in a quintet (4) 154 Dinner or tea, eg (4) 155 Avoid slyly (5) 156 Place of business (6) 157 Finished (5)

158 Have a portion of with others (5) 159 Ought to (6)

DOWN

2 Panorama (5)

3 Performances by two (5)

4 Musical ending (4)

5 Parts played (5)

6 Reverberations (6)

7 Sharpen (4)

8 Population count (6)

9 Course (5)

10 --- the Explorer, kids’ show (4) 11 Voting stall (5)

12 Chef ’s garment (5) 15 Articulate, pronounce (5) 17 Sausages, in slang (5) 24 Jewish teacher (5) 25 Desiccated, dehydrated (5) 26 Dissuade (5)

27 Hen or cock, eg (4) 28 Kind of beer (5) 29 Purvey (5)

31 Ruler of an empire (7) 33 Le out (7)

34 Open country in southern Africa (5) 35 Bellybu on (5) 36 Detest (4)

37 The Red Planet (4) 38 Norse god of thunder (4) 47 Handy (6)

48 Song refrain (6) 49 Agricultural property (4) 50 --- pan, cooking vessel (6) 51 Tidily (6) 53 Noiselessly (8) 54 Child’s toy bear (5) 56 Meagre (5)

57 --- Harbour, NSW North Coast town (5) 58 Neck warmer (5)

59 Set of 26 le ers (8) 62 Remained (6) 63 Jesters, buffoons (6) 69 Je y (4)

71 Extinct woolly elephant (7) 72 Rubbish (7) 74 Lachrymal drops (5)

75 For ---, permanently (5) 76 Local government area (5) 77 Banquet (5)

78 Not heavy (5) 79 Chimney emission (5) 81 Japanese soy dish (8) 82 Food cupboard (6) 84 Midday (4) 85 Barely, almost not at all (6)

86 Kitchen strainer (8) 91 Monetary unit (6) 93 Bird of prey (5) 94 Spanish capital (6)

96 --- Springs, NT town (5) 97 Precipitous (5) 98 Cone-shaped utensil for conducting liquid (6) 99 Yell (5)

100 Red wine variety (6) 104 Financial institution (4) 109 Seedless grape (7) 111 Daughter of the king of Spain (7)

114 --- Merman, US Broadway singer (5) 115 In good time (5)

117 Bo om of the foot (4) 119 Lion’s call (4)

120 Spill the ---, reveal secret information unintentionally (5) 121 Fluid measure (5) 122 Brink (4)

124 Bumps into (5) 125 Fourth month (5) 127 Concur (5)

128 Run from (4) 133 Florida city (5)

137 --- donna, principal female singer of an opera company (5) 138 Refrained from harming or destroying (6) 139 Italian seaport (6) 141 Fountain in Rome (5) 142 Frighten (5) 143 Budged (5)

145 --- Summer, disco singer (5)

146 Angry, irate (5) 147 Musical beat (5) 149 Burrowing animal (4) 150 Paste (4)

152 Merry old king in a nursery rhyme (4) Solutions from page 162