MEGA CROSSWORD

“THE NICEST THING ABOUT DOING A CROSSWORD PUZZLE IS, YOU KNOW THERE IS A SOLUTION.”

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

ACROSS

1. Degree ceremony

6. Fluffed timing

10. Percussion instruments

15. ... of Capri

18. Wilder

19. Lizards, Komodo ...

20. Mocking remark

22. Needier

23. Bestowed gift

24. Tantalises

25. Work-out room

26. Coin pouch

28. Tastes defeat

30. Musical, ... Misérables

31. Unresolved problem

32. Helen of ...

33. Peepers

34. Book leaf

35. Actress, Meg ...

37. Country, Costa ...

39. Food can

40. Tropical tuber

42. Lab rodents

45. Removes from country

48. Unit of weight

49. Feast

50. Told (to)

53. Enemy

54. Flooded

56. Disparaging

59. Summons on bleeper

61. Pen point

62. Comic actor, ... Idle

63. China’s ... Zedong

64. ..., two, buckle my shoe

65. Permissible

66. Fairy

68. Great beginning (6,5)

69. Fish eggs

70. Plain

71. Exclude from group

72. Shop ... you drop (‘3)

73. Writing blots (3,6)

74. In favour of

76. Pillow

78. Judicial investigation

80. Prague native

81. Light-headedness

84. Decree

85. Mariner

87. Raid

89. Carry

92. Hospital resident

94. Data

96. Hunted fowl (4,4)

97. Salad dressing liquid (5,3)

98. Labour uphill

100. Intimidate

101. Actress, ... Hudson

104. Public squares

105. Fooled

107. Throat part, ... cords

108. U-boat

112. Happen

113. Primeval

115. Cabin staff

117. US spy group (1,1,1) 118. Opening

120. ... & don’ts

121. Intergalactic vehicle

123. Eliminate

125. Playful bite

126. Survey

127. Just a minute, wait a ...

129. Oliver Hardy & ... Laurel

130. Happy trip, ... voyage

131. Like a ... out of hell

133. Mums & ...

134. Local area network

136. Edit (text)

137. Expand

140. Blunder

141. New Year’s Eve (1,1,1)

142. Liquid crystal (watch)

146. Arm bone

147. Israeli city, Tel ...

148. Punting adviser 152. Lean-to

154. Pleads

155. 2240 lbs

156. Bible’s Garden of ...

157. Affectionate

159. Welsh actor, Rhys ...

160. Whip stroke 162. Soothsayer

164. Botch (lines)

165. Non-com (1,1,1)

167. Complies with

169. In unison (2,3)

171. Retiree (1,1,1) 173. Muppet frog

174. Ice cream dessert

175. Sikh headwear

177. Yes votes

178. Bill

179. Coastal

180. Mosaic pattern part

181. Resemblances

182. Increases fitness level (5,2)

183. Wine-opening tools

DOWN

1. Clamp

2. Metallic mixture

3. In the open air 4. Clumsy

5. More enjoyable

6. Slaughter

7. Area of urban squalor

8. Left alone

9. Short-change

10. Skeleton images (1-4)

11. Searches (5,3)

12. Small sweet

13. Uproar

14. Takes to court

16. Saturated

17. Coronation robes fur

20. Aplenty

21. Surrounded & harassed

27. Equity

29. Brittle bone disorder

35. Tousle

36. Axe-like cutter

38. Koran religion

41. Paris nightclub, Moulin ...

43. Yemen port

44. Unchanging

46. Male family heads

47. Nuclear generators 51. Stark

52. Fought back

55. Alive & well

56. Evaded (duty)

57. Gold brick

58. Twist around

60. Picnic pests

67. Utmost

69. Often-repeated complaint 72. Implied

75. Relative sizes

77. Lacking vitality

79. Finalist

82. Sketch

83. ... here nor there 86. Stadium

88. In the lead

90. Thrilled exclamation

91. Spur (on)

92. Wedding promise (1,2) 93. Every ..., Dick and Harry

94. Kind

95. Porky

98. Public (duty) 99. Unhook

102. Video gaming centres

103. Merits

104. Making believe (4-6)

106. Destitute (4-3-3)

108. Wonderfully

109. Polls

110. Introductory

111. Keen workers (5,7)

114. Least contaminated

116. Start of shower

119. Kayak 122. German medal, ... Cross 124. Aft

125. Synthetic fabrics 128. Manned (ship)

130. Dixie chick, southern ...

132. Hackneyed

135. Protuberance

138. Meteorologists

139. Unscrupulous lenders (4,6)

141. Actor, Robert De ... 143. Turns of phrase

144. Dormant

145. Clears of wrongdoing

149. Lower 150. Stammers 151. Exertion

153. Bee product

158. Asian nation

161. View

163. Devours (4,2)

166. Harsh squeaking sound 168. Slips out

170. French saint, Joan ... (2,3)

172. Tolerate 173. Philosopher, ... Marx 176. Journalism