MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Valued too low, underestimated 6. Future wife 10. Wandering aimlessly 15. Twofold 18. Recapping, … up

19. St … of Assisi

20. Bleats 22. Elaborately embellished 23. Fast (rhythm)

24. Halt (4,2)

25. Info 26. Black-and-white sea duck 28. Plunders, pillages 30. Aged, elderly

31. Three- dimensional shapes 32. Slim, thin

33. Rum measures

34. Rose prickle 35. Timber- dressing tool 37. You (archaic) 39. Deciduous tree 40. Harvard’s rival 42. Designer, Christian … 45. Unfavourable, antagonistic 48. Create saying, … a phrase 49. Dutch cheese

50. Stuck (to)

53. Soar

54. More painful

56. Hires, leases

59. Vote into office 61. Battery size (1,1,1) 62. Suva’s nation 63. Chinese exercises, ... chi (1’2) 64. The … Commandments 65. Juvenile wolves 66. Meadow (poetic) 68. Exam overseers 69. Attempt

70. Small sculpture

71. Skin irritation

72. Hit, punch 73. Convulsions sufferer 74. Fireplace shelf 76. Against the law 78. Retaliates for 80. Necklace

81. Egyptian waterway (4,5) 84. Pulsate, ache 85. Depart! (2,4) 87. University compositions 89. Western alliance 92. Friendly

94. Employs, utilises 96. African parrot 97. Eager, … at the bit 98. Foundation, bottom 100. Split, divided 101. Mediocre journalist 104. Lure into danger

105. Film theatre 107. Revitalising drink 108. Comprised, … of 112. Swagger

113. Lewd

115. Absorbs (food)

117. Pen tip

118. Largest Central American republic

120. No

121. Penance, reparation 123. Cruelty, brutality 125. Annoy constantly 126. Alignment

127. Jane Eyre actress, … Wasikowska 129. Region, zone

130. Wood glue (1,1,1) 131. Sever (branches) 133. Scottish tribe

134. Major computer firm (1,1,1) 136. Agricultural, rustic 137. Aerial tracking system 140. Accustom, familiarise 141. Pimple

142. Stewed fruit

146. Elitist

147. Greenish blue 148. Avows, affirms 152. Ranked player

154. Wine, ... spumante 155. Director, ... Howard 156. Ogle

157. US Mormon state 159. French saint, Joan ... (2,3) 160. Centre of church 162. Wagging dog part 164. Inappropriate, unsuitable 165. Wildebeest 167. Hooligans, bullies 169. Pancake topping, maple ... 171. Bar account

173. Makes butter 174. Deadly Australian serpents 175. Shrewdness, acuity 177. Automatic tellers (1,1,2) 178. Slope, ascent 179. Unscrew 180. Unloaded weight 181. Hollywood is there (3,7) 182. Impales

183. Wakes up late

DOWN

1. Untie

2. Beef dish, steak …

3. Look like

4. Violent storms

5. Made less wet

6. Physique, shape

7. Forbearance

8. Responsibility, obligation

9. Exertion

10. Florida city

11. Confronted, challenged

12. Refute, invalidate

13. Everything included (2,3)

14. Inhale sharply

16. Beseeched

17. Speared

20. Fair-haired woman

21. Related to hearing

27. Fish that stun prey (8,4)

29. Lopsided

35. Charles Dickens character, … Dodger 36. Eccentric 38. Blood-pumping organ 41. Burdened 43. Thought, notion 44. Prayer beads 46. Confirming, verifying 47. Leftover 51. Tethering

52. Robins

55. Compass point 56. Rejoin 57. Unworldly

58. Sugar- coat

60. In case

67. Bitumen compound 69. Short sleeved garments (1- 6)

72. Cured pork

75. Infants

77. Drift (towards) 79. Catching

82. Takes sharp turns, first to one side then to the other 83. Christmas comic-book compendiums

86. Spy, secret …

88. Pink Lady or Red Delicious 90. So!

91. Bullring cheer

92. Music discs

93. TV screen type (1,1,1) 94. Exclamation of disgust 95. Keyboard key 98. Conductor’s wand

“The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.” M.T. DISMUKE, AUTHOR

99. Levee bank sack 102. Word made from initials 103. Communal fund 104. Environmentallyresponsible travel 106. Attackers 108. Consolidating at one site 109. Atomic

110. More taut 111. Hellishly, fiendishly 114. Plot outline

116. Rarest

119. Assessed, graded 122. Brazilian jazz style, bossa …

124. Author unknown 125. Whinnies

128. Clip on, fasten 130. Investigates inquisitively 132. Immature insects 135. Spiked club 138. Abridge, condense 139. Radical (artist) (5-5) 141. Lemon rind 143. Perfumes, scents 144. Acclaiming, commending 145. Strategic 149. Landmine trigger (4- 4) 150. Comes forth, gives off 151. Expression of rebuke (3-3) 153. Rowing team

158. Beer colour 161. Michaelmas daisies 163. Magazine copies 166. Dulls (senses) 168. Modules

170. Relative amounts 172. Dumbfound, astonish 173. Yell, cry

176. Tennis barriers